paludicolae

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An order or suborder of grallatorial birds, including those which inhabit marshes and are precocial, as the gruiform and ralliform birds, or cranes, rails, and their allies: distinguished from Limicolæ. More commonly called Alectorides.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.