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Tringa arenaria.

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Gen. 2. Porphyrio of Brisson.-Bill higher in

Gen. 9. Pelidna of Cuvier.-Bill longer than the proportion; frontal plate large. Support them

head; toes with margins.

Tringa cinchus.

T. Alpina.

selves on one foot whilst they eat.
Fulica porphyrio.

Gen. 3. Fulica of Brisson.-Bill short; toes

Gen. 10. Machetes of Cuvier.-Palmation be widened by a festooned border.

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Fulica atra; F. atarrima et æthiops of Gmelin. Gen. 4. Glareola of Gmelin.-Bill short and conical, arched entirely; wings very long, often forked. G. Austriaca.

Gen. 5. Phenicopterus. P. ruber.

ORDER VI.-PALMIPEDES. ANSERES. Sternum very long, defending a great part of their viscera, not having a notch on each side. Gizzard muscular; cœcal appendages long: inferior larynx simple, but inflated in one family into cartilaginous capsules.

Family 1. BRACHYPTERA.-Alis brevibus. Legs placed further behind than any of the other families; wings short; plumage compact; confine themselves to the surface of the water.

Subdivision. 1. COLYMBI.

Bill thin, straight, compressed, pointed; nostrils linear.

Gen. 1. Pediceps of Latham.-Colymbus of Bris. Middle nail flattened; tarsi very much compressed. Instead of palmation, integuments spread out. C. cristatus urinator.

C. cornutus, obscurus, caspicus.

C. povotis subcrustatus, rubricollis.
C. minor.

Gen. 2. Mergus of Brisson.-Feet palmated.
Colymbus glacialis, arcticus, immer.
C. septentrionalis stellatus.

Gen. 3. Uria of Brisson.-Destitute of a great toe
Colymbus troile.

Gen. 4. Cephus.-Bill shorter; back less arched and without indentation. The symphysis of the lower mandible is very short.

Colymbus minor of Grylle.

Subdivision. 2. ALCA.

Bill very much compressed, elevated vertically; dorsum sharp, commonly furrowed across. Gen. 1. Fratercula.-Bill shorter than the head, and higher at the base than it is long. Alca artica; Labradoria of Gmelin.

Group 1. Procellaria.-Nostrils tubular Gen. Procellaria.-Bill hooked at the point, extremity seems to be composed of a piece which is articulated to the rest; nostrils united into a tube upon the dorsum of the mandible.

Procellaria gigantea of Latham, quebrata huesos. P. Capensis.

These birds were our constant companions during several thousand miles, and quitted our company a short time in the Blossom's passage round the Horn

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Gen. 3. Halodroma of Iliger.-Halodroma, from aλaç the sea, and doouw, to run, alluding to its habit of running upon the sea through the assistance of its wings, which is not confined to this genus. Bill similar to that of the preceding genera, but the throat is dilatable like that of the cormorant; great toe entirely wanting.

Procellaria urinatrix.

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S. alba of Lay. Common in the South Pacifie Ocean; great numbers were seen by us in the

Gen. 4. Pachyptera of Iliger.-Ends of the bill island of Pitcairn, hovering over a species of manfurnished with plates, as in the ducks.

Procellaria furcata.

P. marina.

P. fuliginosa.

P. vittata, cerulea of Gmelin.

Gen. 5. Alca.-Bill longer, and in form of the

grove tree which grows there; the eggs are white, with dusky-red spots of unequal sizes.

Gen. 2. Noddies.-Tail not forked bill slightly prominent underneath.

S. sterna stolida.

Gen. 3. Rhyncops of Linné.-Resemble the sternæ in several respects, but is distinguished from plate of a conteau; wings too smail to support the all other birds by the comparative shortness of the weight of the body.

Procellaria lorde et pira of Gmelin.

P. impennis of Linné.

Group. 2. Aptenodytes of Foster. Wings with only the vestiges of feathers, which at first sight resemble scales; the trosis is enlarged like the heel of a quadruped, and within are found three bones cemented together by their extremities. Gen. 1. Aptenodytes of Cuvier.-Manchots. Bill slender, long, and pointed; the upper mandible somewhat arched towards the extremity, covered with feathers nearly a third of the length, where is seated the nostril.

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Aptenodytes deomersa.

Family. 2. ALIS LONGISSIMIS.

This family is recognised by its great toe being either free or deficient, very long wings, and bill without denticulations, but hooked at the tip in the first genera, and simply pointed in the rest. The inferior larynx has but one appropriate muscle on each side; stomach muscular; cœcal appendages Group 1. Diomedea.

short.

Gen. DIOMEDEA of Linné, which see.
D. spadicea.

D. chlororynchus.

D. fuliginosa.

Color dusty black, a semicircular ring of white about the eye.

Group 2. Lari. See LARUS.

upper mandible.
Rhyncops nigra of Linné.

Family 3. PEDIBUS PALMATIS.
Great toe united with the rest by a single mem-

brane.

Group 4. Pelecani.

A certain space under the throat bare of feathers; nostrils a very narrow chink; skin of the throat dilatable; tongue small, for it would appear that the materials of the tongue have been abstracted to form the vast dilatation of the fauces. Pelecanus, from wɛλɛkʊg, an axe, applicable to the form of the

bill.

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like a saw.

Pelecanus bassanus.

Gen. 5. Plotus. See PLOTUS.
Gen. 6. Phaeton. See PHAETON.

Family 4.-ROSTRO LAMINIS INSTRUCTO.
Bill thick, clothed with a soft skin; its edges
furnished with plates or small teeth; tongue broad
In the
and fleshy, denticulated at its edges.

Gen. 1. Larus.-Nostrils narrow, in medial dis- greater number the trachea or windpipe of the

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Bill large and broad, its edges furnished with

L. tridactylis, rissa of Gmelin. Deserves to be prominent plates, fine and placed crosswise.

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Order Lacertace G.Lacerta apus Apodal Lizard

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