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4» LON&IKOSTKES. 
Beak slim, long, and 
weak. Fig. 208. 
5. Macbodactyla. 
Beak more or less 
compressed, never so 
slim or weak as in the 
Longirostres. Fig. 222. 
Toes very long, but no 
membranes betvreen 
the bases. Fig. 222. 
Body flattened from 
the narrowness of the 
sternum. Wings mo- 
derate or short j flight 
feeble. 
6. Glareola, Gm. Pra- 
tincoles. Sea Par- 
tridges. 
Beak short, conical, Tarsi plated, exte- 
entirely arched, some- rior toes a little pal- 
w hat cleft. Fig. 224. mated, great toe touch- 
ing the ground. 
Wings exceedingly 
long and pointed. 
The description of the Family is that of the only Genus. 
7 . PedNicoPTERUs, Lin. 
Flamingos. 
Neck as slim arid as Legs excessively long, 
long as their legs ; head 3 front toes palmated 
small; the inferior man- to the end, the great 
dible oval, bent longi- toe extremely short, 
tudinally in a demi-cy- 
lindrical canal; the su- 
perior mandible oblong 
and flat, bent trans- 
versely in the middle to 
join the other exactly. 
Fig, 220. 
The five transversal 
plates which edge their 
mandibles , and the 
fleshy thickness of their 
tongue, approximate 
them to the Anas. 
In all parts of the 
world, from lat. 40° to 
45". 
The description of the Family is that of the only Gen us. 
FAMILY I. BREVIPENNES. 
GENERA AND SUB-GENERA. 
1. Struthio, Lin. Os- 
TR'CHES. 
Beak depressed hori- Wings covered with An enormous crop, 
zontally, of moderate loose flexible feathers, and a considerable ven- 
length, blunt at the and long enough to ac- tricle between the crop 
end; tongue short, and eel erate their course. and the gizzard. Coe- 
rounded like a crescent; cum long, and a vast 
eyelids with hairs. cloaca wherein the 
urine accumulates. 
