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 | | Though by former systematists placed near or even among the herons, there is no doubt that the cranes have only a superficial resemblance and no real affinity to the Ardeidae. |
| | In fact the Gruidae form a somewhat isolated group. |
| | Huxley included them together with the Rallidae in his Geranomorphae; but a more extended view of their various characters would probably assign them rather as relatives of the Bustardsnot that it must be thought that the two families have not been for a very long time distinct. |
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