. A review of recent attempts to classify birds; an address delivered before the Second international ornithological congress on the 18th of May, 1891 . veral forms have not persisted. Dead branches indicate the Enali-ornithes, Dinornithidae, and the Ichthyornithiformes, but all the otherbranches have developed new twigs, many of gieat size. Thus theGalliformes have developed four family branchlets, and the Gallidsealone have four large twigs; and so on Avith all the larger groups. The third or topmost section (Plate VII.) shows the developmentof the Coracornithes, with the Striges as a large
. A review of recent attempts to classify birds; an address delivered before the Second international ornithological congress on the 18th of May, 1891 . veral forms have not persisted. Dead branches indicate the Enali-ornithes, Dinornithidae, and the Ichthyornithiformes, but all the otherbranches have developed new twigs, many of gieat size. Thus theGalliformes have developed four family branchlets, and the Gallidsealone have four large twigs; and so on Avith all the larger groups. The third or topmost section (Plate VII.) shows the developmentof the Coracornithes, with the Striges as a large outlying group ofthe Coraciiformes. I do not proceed further with the subject ofProfessor Furbringers pedigree of the Class Aves, as, by means ofhis courtesy, the readers of this Addi-ess will be able to study for them-selves the maps which he has drawn up for the explanation of his can of course be still better studied in the Professors larger work ^,but I must tender him my sincere thanks for allowing me to place theaccompanying illustrations before my readers. * <Bijdrageu tot de Dierkuude, Amsterdam, Afl. xv. (1888). 38 PLATE
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