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Show 240 DR. H. GADOW ON T H E [Mar. 15, Tracheo-bronchial muscles attached to 7th or 5th bronchial rings. Tongue mostly rudimentary. I. TTJBINARES. 10. ARDE1FORMES. Cosmopolitan. Aquatic. Young passing through a downy stage. Oil-gland tufted. Aquinto-cubital. Humero-coracoid deep. No ectepicondylar process. Desmognathous. No basipterygoid process. I. STEGANOPODES. Cosmopolitan. Aquatic. Nidicolous. Piscivorous. Rhamphotheca compound. Nares impervious. No supraorbital glands. Angulare truncated. Neck without apteria. Legs short; all the four toes webbed together. ( Unique.) Hypotarsus complex. Flexors type of II. Orthoccelous, type II. Tongue rudimentary. 1. Phaetontidce. 15 cervical vertebrae. Procoracoid process large. Garrod's symbol A X Y + . 2. Phalacrocoracidce. (including Sulinae, Plotina?, Pha-lacrocoracinae.) 18-20 cervical vertebrae. Garrod's symbol A X + . 3. Pelecanidce. 17 cervical vertebrae. Procoracoid process small Garrod's symbol A -. 4. Fregatidce. 15 cervical vertebrae. Procoracoid process small. Garrod's symbol A + . II. HERODII. Cosmopolitan. Waders. Nidicolous. Zoophagous. Bill long, pointed, laterally compressed, with simple rhamphotheca. Nares pervious. No supraorbital glands. Neck long, with long apteria. Downs of adults only upon the apteria. (Unique among Ardei-formes.) |
