RUNNING BIRDS. 



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tures more arid than any other ground birds, and 

 consider them as Cursores (for they are all swift of 



stilt. 



foot, and the majority of them are incapable of flight), 

 making them a distinct order ; and then include all 

 the others in another order Grallid^, or birds 



Snipe. 



which can and occasionally do wade, we shall per- 

 haps come as near to accuracy as is possible without 

 a much greater, and indeed an inconvenient number 

 of primary divisions. 



Cuvier divides the order into five principal groups 

 or families, to which he has to append some genera 

 which do not conveniently come within any of the 

 groups. 



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