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Teretirostrate Waders. [Round-beaked. H. E.] 

 Avocet. Dunlin. 



Curlew. Plover. 



Woodcock. 



Latirostrate Waders. [Broad-beaked. H. E.] 

 Boatbill. 

 SpoonbiU. 

 Phoenicopterus (flamingo). 



Order 7. — Palmipeds. 



Digits uniled by large membranes ; tarsus of loio height (Aquatic 

 birds, swimmers). 



Penniped Palmipeds. [Pin-footed. H. E.] 

 Anhinga. Frigate-bird. 



Phaeton. Cormorant. 



Gannet. Pelican. 



Serrirostrate Palmipeds. [Serrated beaks. H. E.] 

 Merganser. 

 Duck. 

 Flamingo. 



Longipen Palmipeds. [Long-winged. H. E.] 

 Gull. Avocet. 



Albatross. Tern. 



Petrel. Soissor-bill. 



Brevipen Palmipeds. [Short- winged. H. E.] 

 Grebe. Penguin. 



Guillemot. King-penguin. 



Auk. 



MONOTREMES. (Geoff.) 



Animals intermediate between birds and mammals. These animals 

 are quadrwpeds witJiowt mammae, without any teeth inserted, without lips, 

 and with only one orifice for the genital organs, the excrement and the 

 urine ; their body is covered with hair or bristles. 



Ornithorhynchus. 

 Echidna. 



N.B. — I have already spoken of these animals in Chapter VI., page 

 74, where I showed that they are neither mammals, birds nor 

 reptiles. 



