Anterior toes connected by a short membrane. This is a distinguishing feature of the Order; thus 
differing from the Rapacious, which have not the three anterior toes connected ; from the Web-footed, which 
have them altogether united ; and from the Climbers, which have two behind and two before. The Passe- 
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swift flight; body very little raised upon the legs; bill slender, weak, and straight at the base; nostrils 
lodged on a soft protuberance ; toes divided to their origin, in which they are exceptions to the general rule 
of the Order ; they may, indeed, be considered as forming the intermediate link between the Gallinaceous 
and Passerine Orders. 
