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ee, Feet pamprodactylous.................-- Pamprodactyle (extralimital).¢ 
dd. Dorsal pteryla forked between shoulders. 
e. Feet syndactyle or eleutherodactyle, the flexor tendons of type Va, or 
outer toe reversible; spina externa sterni well developed; syrinx 
tracheo-bronchial; only one (the left) carotid artery; young gymno- 
POMC Seis is geng i fed See dein ta Reeaot oscieaausaer Coracize (extralimital).® 
ee. Feet anisodactyle, the flexor tendons of type Va (as in Macrochires), the 
outer toe never reversible; spina externa sterni vestigial; primaries 10; 
two carotid arteries, syrinx bronchial, and young ptilopedic (as in 
DUTIES.) soc ce asimteiateniels Nycticoraciz (to be included in Part VI}. 
aa. Feet desmopelmous and raptorial, the flexor tendons of type I; coracoids con- 
nected; hypotarsus simple; myological formula A; two carotid arteries; ceca 
long; syrinx bronchial; aftershaft absent or (rarely) rudimentary; primaries 
11; young ptilopeedic............-.- Nyctiharpages (to be included in Part VI). 
Suborder MACROCHIRES. 
HUMMING BIRDS AND SWIFTS. 
= Macrochires Nitzscu, Obs. Av. art. carot. com., 1829, 15; Syst. Pterylog., 1840, 
122.—Brpparp, Struct. and Classif. Birds, 1898, 224. 
> Macrochires CaBANIs and Herne, Mus. Hein., ili, 1860, 3 (includes Capri- 
mulgide and Steatornithide).—Scriater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 278 (includes 
Caprimulgidz).—Garrop, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 463 (includes Capri- 
mulgide and Steatornithide). 
= Makrochires (emendation) FirBRinGER, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vég., 1888, 1567. 
>Strisores CABANIS in Wiegmann’s Archiv fir Naturg., 1847, pt. i, 308, 345, 
346 (includes Caprimulgide, Opisthocomide, and Musophagidee!). 
>Cypselomorphe Huxury, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 468 (includes Capri- 
mulgidze). 
=Cypseliformes GARROD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 118. 
= Micropodit Know.ton, Birds of the World, 1909, 50. 
= Micropodoidex STEINEGER, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 435, in text. 
= Micropodoidet Core, Am. Nat., xxiii, 1889, 871, 872, 873. 
=Cypseli (not of Ridgway, 1881) Gapow, Bronn’s Thier-Reichs, Vég., iii, 1893, 
245, 301; Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 37. 
a—Coliomorphe (not of Sundevall, 1856) Murie, Ibis, July, 1872, 278.=Pamprodac- 
tyle Murie, Ibis, ili, April, 1873, 190, foot-note.=Coliotdex Stejneger, Stand. Nat. 
Hist., iv, 1885, 371, 393, in text.=Colii Furbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vég., ii, 
1888, 1567; Sharpe, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 82; Hand-list, ii, 1900, 145; Gadow, in 
Bronn’s Thier-Reichs, Vég., ii, 1893, 252, 301; Classif. Vertebr., 1898, pp. xv, 37.— 
Beddard, Struct. and Classif. Birds, 1898, 201; Knowlton, Birds of the World, 1909, 
50.=Colioidei Cope, Am. Nat., xxiii, Oct., 1889, 871, 873. 
The Pamprodactyle comprise a single family, Coliidee (the Colies), represented by 
the genera Colius and Urocolius only, and are peculiar to the Ethiopian Region. 
b<Coraciade Gray, Gen. Birds, i, June, 1845, 61; Hand-List, i, 1869, 75.—= Coracix 
Firbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vég., ii, 1888, 1567.—<Coraciz Sharpe, Rev. Classif. 
Birds, 1891, 79 (=Coraciidee); Hand-list, ii, 1900, 45 —<Leptosomatt Sharpe, Rev. 
Classif. Birds, 1891, 79 (=Leptosomatide); Hand-list, ii 1900, 45.=Coraciide Gadow, 
Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 36.=Coraciz Fiirbringer, Uebers. Syst. Morph. Vég., ii, 1888, 
1567. 
An exclusively Old World group, comprising the families Coraciidee and Leptoso- 
matidz, the former common to the Ethiopian, Indian, Indo-Malayan, and Austro- 
Malayan Subregions, the latter peculiar to Madagascar. 
