122 
KEY TO FAMILIES 
Order VI, Odontoglossse. — 
Flamingoes. 
Long-legged, long-necked, 
red or pink - and - white 
birds; bill bent downward, 
with lateral ridges (Fig. 
35); toes four, front ones 
webbed. With the charac- 
ters of the Order 
F a m i ly Phcenicopteridce: 
Flamingoes, p. 216. 
Order VII, Herodiones. — Herons, Storks, Ibises, etc. 
Long-logged, wading birds usually found along shores, on muddy flats 
or in marshes. Herons and Bitterns fly with a fold in the neck; Ibises 
and Spoonbills with the neck straight. Toes four, slightly or not 
webbed, all on the same level; lores bare. 
Fig. 38. 
A. Bill straight and sharply pointed; inner border of middle toe- 
nail with a comblike edge (Fig. 36); neck curved in flight. . . . 
Family Ardeidce: Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, p. 219. 
B. Bill not sharply pointed, cylindrical or flattened (Figs. 37, 38); 
no comb on toe-nail; neck straight in flight. 
a. Bill rounded, more or less curved downward. 
a 1 . Size large, tarsus over 5*00; whole head bare in adult. . . . 
Family Ciconiidce: Storks and Wood Ibises, p. 219. 
a 2 . Size smaller, tarsus under 5'00; face bare (Fig. 37). . . . 
Family Ibididce: Ibises, p. 218. 
b. Bill flattened and much broadened at the end (Fig. 38), our 
species pink. . . , Family Plataleidce: Spoonbills, p. 217. 
