Illustrations of British Ornithology, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Illustrations of British Ornithology, Vol. 2

Bill longer than the head, straight, strong, laterally com pressed, the tip convexo-conical, pointed. Mandibles Of equal length and height; culmen, from the base to onehalf of the length of the bill, flat and, indistinct, from thence to the tip rounded; nasal furrow reaching rather beyond the mid dle Of the bill, broad and deep. Tomia straight, parallel, smooth, except near the tip, where they are slightly and fine ly serrated. Ascending angle of the lower mandible with a rounded culmen.

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In the system so ably developed by Mr Vigors, in his Treatise on the Affinities which connect the Orders and Families of Birds, this constitutes his fourth Order, being analogous to the Grallœ of Latham and others, and holding the intermediate station between the Rasores or Gallinaceous Birds, and the Natatores or true Aquatics. In addition to the various genera of the order Grallœ of other systems, which was placed at the head of the second great Division or Aves Aquatics, it contains some of the genera arranged in the Order Pinnatipedes of Latham, as Fulica, Phalaropus, &c. and also others which, from the development of the membrane connecting the toes, had been included amongst the Palmipedes or Swimmers, but whose real affinities clearly point them out as more intimately connected with the members of this Order; such are the Genera Plicenicopterus, Recurvirostra, &c.

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