. Birds. Birds. PIOI. 15 the distinction was emphasized by Kitchen Parker, who separated Woodpeckers and Wrynecks as Saurognaihce, on account of what he regarded as the reptUian characters presented by the bones of the palate. The view that Woodpeckers and Wrynecks form a separate group has been accepted by many recent writers, notably by Sundevall *, Sclater t, Newton $, Sharpe §, and Gadow ||, though not by Garrod %, by Fiirbringer **, nor by Seebohm ft. The following are the principal characters :— Vomer represented by several distinct paired lateral rods; maxillo-palatines small, widely di
. Birds. Birds. PIOI. 15 the distinction was emphasized by Kitchen Parker, who separated Woodpeckers and Wrynecks as Saurognaihce, on account of what he regarded as the reptUian characters presented by the bones of the palate. The view that Woodpeckers and Wrynecks form a separate group has been accepted by many recent writers, notably by Sundevall *, Sclater t, Newton $, Sharpe §, and Gadow ||, though not by Garrod %, by Fiirbringer **, nor by Seebohm ft. The following are the principal characters :— Vomer represented by several distinct paired lateral rods; maxillo-palatines small, widely distant from each other (fig. 9).. premaxillse; Mxp, maxillo-palatine; PI, palatine ; appear to represent the vomer. 57, p, b, th( Vo, the ossicles which The flexor longug hallucig, after sending ofE a vinculum to the flexor perforans digitorum, is divided, one branch going to the fourth toe, the other being again divided to supply the first and second, whilst the flexor perforans digitorum runs to the third alone (see fig. 22, p. 80). The same arrangement is found in the Barbets, Indicators, Toucans, and some other families. Sternum with two notches behind on each side of the keel; the manubrial process bifurcate as in the Passeres. The femoro- caudal and semitendinosus muscles present; ambiens and accessory femoro-caudal • Casca wanting or quite rudimentary. In pterylosis, the spinal feather-tract is well defined on the back and forked on the lower, not on the upper back. OU-gland tufted, not nude as in Passeres. * ' Tentamen,' p. 72. t ' Ibis,' 1880, pp. 350, 402. + Article " Ornithology," Dncyclopasdia Brit. p. 47. § ' Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds,' p. 84. (The Neotropical Bucoones and Q-albulse are here associated.) II Bronn, Klasseu u. Ordn. des Thier-Eeichs, vi, 4, p. 301. if P. Z. S. 1878, p. 935. *# ' ITntersuchungen,' ii, p. 1392. tt ' Classification of Birds,' p. 6; Supplement, p. Please note that these images are extracted
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