ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE STORK-LIKE BIRDS
THE STORKS, IBISES, AND SPOON-BILLS
(Suborder Ciconice)
The birds of this group resemble in a general way the Herons and their immediate allies, having relatively long legs and necks, but they are distinguished chiefly by structural characters, and we may only mention the absence of powder-down patches, and the hind toe elevated above the plane of the others, leaving the more complete characterization to be recorded under the description of the various groups.
The suborder is divided into two superfamilies, —the CiconiidcB, or Storks and Wood Ibises, and the Ibida, which embraces the families Ibididce, or true Ibises, and the Plataleida, or Spoon-bills.
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