Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 40

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 40: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge As our knowledge of the morphology of the group now under consideration becomes more intimate, the general tendency is to withdraw from its many species, indeed sometimes an entire family or more, of birds that in former times were considered to be quite typically coccygine in character. It was Sclater who finally re moved the Trogones from the group, and in due time, I am confi dent the Coccyges will be fully as well circumscribed as either the Pici or the Psittaci. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.