British birds

Name: British birds
Author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Birds -- Great Britain

The scheme that I adopt here is the same as that which Mr. Hudson uses
in the pages which follow; it is the plan followed in the B.O.U. list,
and approved by most ornithologists in this country as a convenient
working outline. I have added to it the fossil groups, and those groups
which do not occur in Great Britain. The main scheme is that of Dr.
Gadow, used in his valuable account of the anatomy of birds in Bronn’s
‘Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs.’ There is no deep-seated
and mysterious reason for my placing Parrots at the end of the Aves
Carinatæ: it is simply sheer inability to place them anywhere in
particular.


                             CLASS. AVES.

    SUB-CLASS I. Archæornithes (contains genus Archæopteryx only).
    SUB-CLASS II. Neornithes.
        Division i. Neornithes Ratitæ.
            Order i. Ratitæ (contains Struthio, Rhea, Dinornis, &c.).
            Order ii. Stereornithes (contains a few fossil genera,
                        Gastornis, Dasornis, &c.).
        Division ii. Neornithes Odontolcæ.
            Order i. Hesperornithes (the extinct Hesperornis and
                       Enaliornis).
        Division iii. Neornithes Carinatæ.
            Order i. Ichthyornithes (fossil Ichthyornis only).
            Order ii. Passeres (thrushes, swallows, flycatchers, tits,
                        &c.).
            Order iii. Picariæ (rollers, cuckoos, hornbills,
                         woodpeckers, swifts, colies, trogons,
                         goatsuckers, kingfishers).
            Order iv. Striges (owls).
            Order v. Accipitres (hawks, eagles, American vultures,
                       &c.).
            Order vi. Steganopodes (cormorants, pelicans, solan geese,
                        frigate bird).
            Order vii. Herodiones (herons, storks, ibis, spoonbills).
            Order viii. Odontoglossi (flamingoes).
            Order ix. Anseres (screamers, ducks, geese).
            Order x. Columbæ (doves).
            Order xi. Pterocletes (sand-grouse).
            Order xii. Gallinæ (curassows, megapodes, pheasants,
                         grouse, Opisthocomus, &c.).
            Order xiii. Tinamidæ (tinamous).
            Order xiv. Fulicariæ (rails, coots).
            Order xv. Alectorides (cranes, bustards, Cariama, &c.).
            Order xvi. Limicolæ (plovers, snipe, knots, &c.).
            Order xvii. Gaviæ (gulls, skuas).
            Order xviii. Pygopodes (auks, divers, grebes).
            Order xix. Sphenisciformes (penguins).
            Order xx. Tubinares (petrels, albatross).
            Order xxi. Psittaci (parrots).

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