THE BIRDS OF NORTH AND 

 MIDDLE AMERICA 



By EoBEKT EiDGWAY, Continued by Herbert Feiedmann 



Part IX 



Order GRUIFORMES: Cranelike Birds 



<Fuliearlae Nitzsoh, Meckel's Deutsch. Arch. Phys., 1820, 263 (Ralli+ 

 Gruldae). — Sclateb and Saivin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 139 

 (Ealli+Heliornithes+Aramidae). — SHtjrELixr, Anat. Rec, ix, 1915, 606 

 (Heliornlthes+Ralli+Ai'amidae) . 



<Alectorides Nitzsch, Obs. Av. Art. Carot. Com., 1829, 17 (Cariamae+ 

 Otides). — ScLATER and Saivin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, viii, 141 (Eury- 

 pyges+Cariamae+Psophiidae). — Baikd, Beewek, and Kidgway, Water 

 Birds North Amer., i, 1884, 350 (EaUl + Grues).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 332 (Aramidae+Gruidae-I-Eury- 

 pygidae). — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, xii, 236 (Eurypyges+ 

 Grues+Otides). 

 XAlectorides Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylogr., 1840 (Grues+Cariamae+Otides+ 

 Palamedeae) . 



<Grnes Bonapabte, Consp. Gen. Av., ii, 1857 [1854], 97 (Grues+Cariarase). — 

 Beddabd, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 366 ( Grues +Cariamae+ 

 Eurypygeae). 



<Geranomorph8e Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 457 (Ralli+Grues+ 

 Rhinochetidae+Otides?+Cariamae). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, viii, 139 (Ralli+Heliornithes+Aramidse). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves., iii, 1903, 314 (Ralli-f Heliornithes+Grues). 



<Gruoidese Stejnegeb, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 121 (Grues+Ealli). 



<Grues aberrantes Muxer (W. DeW.), Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxlv, 

 1915, 133 (Cariamae+Psophiidse+Eurypyges+Heliornithes). 



<Paludicol8e Amemcan Oknithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 138; ed. 3, 

 1910, 100 (Grues+Ealli).— EiDGW AY, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 2, 134 

 (Grues+Ealli). 



<Gruiformes Fuebrinqeb, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 1888, 1566 (Eurypygeae+ 

 Grues+Cariamae). — Shakpb, Rev. Rec. Att. Classif. Birds, 1891, 74; Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, xvii, 176 (Grues+Eurypygeae+Cariamae) . 



=Gruiformes Gadow, Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 34 (Ralli+Grues+Cariamae+ 

 Otides+Burypygeae+Heliornithes). — ^Wetmoke, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Ixxvi, art. 24, 1930, 4 ; Smiths. Misc. Coll., Ixxxix, No. 13, 1984, 6 ; xcix, No. 7, 

 1940, a— Petebs, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 141. 



