. The chordates. Chordata. Sauropsida: Class Aves 551 ern Hemisphere; expert swimmers and divers, and fairly good fliers except the recently extinct flightless ''great ; Order 16. Columbiformes: Pigeons, doves; all strong fliers; some 500 species; cosmopolitan. (Sometimes included under Charad- riiformes.) The dodo (Fig. 431) and solitaire, recently extinct, were large pigeon-like birds, but Fig. 431. Dodo (Didus ineptus). Facsimile of Piso's figure, made in 1658. (Courtesy, Knowlton and Ridgway: "Birds of the World," New York, Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) Order
. The chordates. Chordata. Sauropsida: Class Aves 551 ern Hemisphere; expert swimmers and divers, and fairly good fliers except the recently extinct flightless ''great ; Order 16. Columbiformes: Pigeons, doves; all strong fliers; some 500 species; cosmopolitan. (Sometimes included under Charad- riiformes.) The dodo (Fig. 431) and solitaire, recently extinct, were large pigeon-like birds, but Fig. 431. Dodo (Didus ineptus). Facsimile of Piso's figure, made in 1658. (Courtesy, Knowlton and Ridgway: "Birds of the World," New York, Henry Holt & Co., Inc.) Order 17. Cuculiformes: Cuckoos; of medium or small size; mostly arboreal; widely distributed; most of them deposit eggs in nests of other birds. Some 45 genera. Order 18. Psittaciformes: Parrots, cockatoos, macaws, para- keets; tropical and warm latitudes of both hemispheres; some 80 genera. (Sometimes included under Cuculiformes.) Order 19. Coraciiformes: A large and heterogeneous group broken into several divisions which older classifications usually list as suborders, but which the more elaborate recent classifications raise to the rank of orders. Mainly comparatively small birds, arboreal, short- legged, and good fliers. In the Eastern Hemisphere, rollers, bee- eaters, hornbills, hoopoes (Fig. 432); in the Western Hemisphere. motmots, nighthawks, whippoorwills, hummingbirds, tou- cans; in both hemispheres, kingfishers (Fig. 433), owls, swifts, woodpeckers, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rand, Herbert W. (Herbert Wilbur), 1872-1960. Philadelphia : Blakiston
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