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Family COLUJJBID/E ; Suit-Family COLUMBINE : PAGE 



Oceanic Fruit Pigeon Carpophaga ucearuca 435 



Passenger Pigeon Ectopistes miyratvrius 436 



Stock Dove Cuiumba aenas 442 



Top-Knot Pigeon Lojiltolaimus anlarcticus 446 



Turtle-Dove Turtur viugaris 446 



Sub-Family GOURIN^E: 



Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps (or PAops) lophotes 448 



Bronze-\V ing Pigeon Pluips clialMyitera 449 



Wanga-Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia picata 450 



Nicobar Pigeon Calasnas nicobarica 450 



Crowned Pigeon Gaura (or Columba) coronata 451 



Bub-Family DIDUNCULIN.* : 



Tooth-Billed Pigeon Didunculus strigirostris 452 



Sub-Family DIDIN,E : 453 



Dodo Didus ineptus 453 



Order GALLING ; THE POULTRY 455 



Family CRACID^E ; Sub-Family GRACING: 



Crested Curassow Crax aleclor 455 



Family MEGAPODID^E ; Sub-Family MKOAPODIN^E : 



Australian Jungle Fowl Megapodius tumulus 457 



Leipoa Leipoa oceUata 458 



Sub-Family TALLEOALLIN^E: 



Brush Turkey TaUegaiLa lathami 459 



Family PHASIANID/K ; Sub-Family PAVONINE ; PEACOCKS... 462 



Peacock Pavo crislatus 462 



Crested Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron napoleanis. 464 



Sub-Family PHASIANIN^E ; PHEASANTS 464 



Argus Pheasant -Argus giganteus 464 



Pheasant Phasianus colchicus 465 



Sub-Family GA^LIN/B : 



Golden Pheasant Gallophasis (or Thaumalea) picta. 467 



Bank! va Jungle Fowl Gattus Bankiva 471 



Horned Trapogan Ceriamis salyra 473 



Sub-Family MELEAGRIN.K ; TURKEYS 473 



Turkey Meleagris gallopavo 473 



Guinea Fowl Numida pucherani 477 



Sub-Family LOPHOPHORIN/E : 



Impeyan Pheasant Lophophorus impeyanus 478 



Family TETRAONID^: ; Sub-Family PERDICIN^B 479 



Partridge Perdix cinereus 479 



Ked-Legged Partridge Oaccabis rufa 481 



Sanguine Francolin Ithaginis cruentus 482 



Quail Coturnix communis 482 



Sub-Family ODONTOPHORIN.* : 



Virginian Quail Ortijx virginiana 484 



Sub-Family PETRAOMN.*:: 



Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus 487 



Willow Grouse Lagopus albus 495 



Sub-Family PTEROCLIN/E: 



Sand Grouse Pterocles cxustus 498 



Family CHIOMD^E; Sub-Family CHIUNIDIN.; SHEATH-BILLS. 499 



White Sheath-Bill Chtonis alba 499 



Family TINAMID/E ; TINAMOUS 499 



Elegant Tinamou Tinamotis elcgans 499 



Order STRUTHIONES ; OR RUNNING BIRDS 501 



Family STRUTHIONID* ; Sub-Family STRUTHIONTN^E : 



Ostrich Struthio camelus 501 



Emeu Dramaius novae hollandice 504 



Rhea Rhea americana 505 



Cassowary Casuarius galeatus 507 



Sub-Family APTERYGIN/K : 



Apteryx Apteryx australis 511 



Sub-Family OTINID^E : 



Great Bustard Otis tarda 514 



Order GRALL.E ; OR LONG-LEGGED BIRDS 514 



Family CHARADRIAD^S ; Sub-Family ffiDiCNEMiN^E : 



Great Plover (Edicnemus crepitans 517 



Sub-Family GLAREOLIN* : 



Pratincole Glareola pratincola 518 



Sub-Family CURSORIN^E: 



Cream-Colored Courser Cursorius gallicus, or ffyas 



cegt/plia 519 



Sub-Family CHARADRIN^E : 



Lapwing Vanclliis crislatus 519 



Golden Plover Charadrius pluvialis 52l 



Sub-Family H^SMATOPODIN^E : 



Oyster-Catcher Haematopus ostralegus 529 



Sub-Family CINCLIN.* : 



Turnstone Cinclus interpret 631 



Family ARDEID/E ; Sub-Family PSOPHIN^;: 



Golden- Breasted Trumpeter Psophia crepitans 532 



Qariama Cariama cristata, or Mcholophus cristatus.. 533 



Sub-Family GROINS: 



Crane Grus cinerea 533 



Demoiselle Crane Scops (or Anthropaides) Virgo. . . . 535 



Crowned Crane Jialearica pavonina 536 



Sub-Family ARDEIN^ : 



American Egret fit-radios alba egretta, or Ardea 



cgretta 537 



Bittern liotaurus stdlaris 546 



Nankeen Night-Heron NifHicarax caledonicus 549 



Boat-Bill Vancroma cocfilearna 5">0 



Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia 551 



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Sub-Family Cicomnja ; STORKS : PAOB 



Stork Ciconia alba 552 



Adjutant Leptoptilus crumenifer 553 



Jabirus Mycteria seiwgaUxisix 555 



W hale-Headed Stork Malcenweps rex 057 



Sub-Family TANTALIN^K ; IBIS 559 



Sacred Ibis Iljis aethiopica 559 



Straw-Necked Ibis Geronticus spinicollis 560 



Family SCOLOPACID^: ; Sub-Family LIMOSIN/E 562 



Curlew Numenius arquulus 562 



Black-Tailed Godwit Limosa aegocephala 565 



Sub-Family TOTANIN/K ; SANDPIPERS 568 



Green Sandpiper -Totanusochropus 568 



Common Sandpiper Tringoides hypoleuca 669 



Sub-Family RECURTIROKTRIXJ*: : 



Avocet Itecurvirostra awcetta 569 



Stilt Plover Uimaniopus candidus 570 



Sub-Family TRINOIN^: 



Ruff Philomachus (or Machetes) pugnax 571 



Knot Tringa canutus 571 



Sub-Family SCOLOPACIN*:: 



Great Snipe Gallinago major 575 



Woodcock Scolopax rusticola 577 



Sub-Family PHALAROPODIN^:: 



Gray Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius 578 



Family PALAMEDEID.K ; Sub-Family PARRIN^E: 



Mexican Jacana Parra gymnostoma 578 



Chinese Jacana Hydraphasianus chinensis 579 



Sub-Family PALAMEUEIN/K ; SCREAMERS 680 



Horned Screamer Palameddea mrnuta 580 



Crested Screamer (Jhauna cristatus 681 



Family RALLIU.E ; RAILS; Suit-Family RALLIN^E 581 



Water Rail JKallus aquaticus 581 



Corncrake Orlygometra crex 585 



Sub-Family GALLINULIN/K: 



Hvacinthine Gallinule Porphijrio veierum 586 



Water Hen Gallinula chloropus 587 



Coot Fulica atra 589 



Order ANSERES ; THE GOOSE, SWAN, DUCK, ETC.. . . 590 



Family ANATID.*; ; Sub-Family PuffiMCopTERlN* : 



Flamingo Pliomicopterus ruber 590 



Sub-Fannly PLECTROPTERIN^: : 



Spur- Winged Goose Plectrophanes gambensis 592 



Cape Barren Goose-G'ereqpsis (orAnser> iwme IwUaiidice 593 



Bernicle Goose Jiernicla leuvopsis 594 



Snb-Family CYONIN^:: 



Mute Swan Cygnus olar 597 



Sub-Family ANATIN.* ; TRUE DUCKS 601 



Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata Kill 



Widgeon Mareca penelope 601 



Mallard Anas Ijosc/ias 603 



Teal Querquedula crecca 603 



Shoveller Duck Spatula clypeata On") 



Sub-Fumily FULIGULIN.* 606 



Pochard Dun-Bird Nyroca terina 6H6 



Common Duck Somateria moUissima 610 



Sub-Family MERGING 612 



Goosander Mcrgus merganser 612 



Smew Mergellus albellus 612 



Family CoLTlCBIDvE; DIVERS; Sub-Family COI.YMBIK^E.. . . 613 



Great Northern Diver Golymbus glaiialis 613 



Sub-Family PODICEPINA: ; GREBES 614 



Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus 614 



Family ALCID^: ; Sub-Family ALCIN^K ; AUKS 615 



Great Auk Alca (or Plantusi impenras 615 



Puffin Fratercula arvtica 616 



Sub-Famili/ SPHEMSCIN^E ; PENGUINS 617 



K'ing Penguin Aptenodytes pennantii (117 



Sub-Family URIN^E 618 



Guillemot Uria troile U18 



Family PROCELLARID^, ; Sub-Family PROCEI.LARIN* ; PET- 



BELH 618 



Stormy Petrel - Thalassidroma pelagica 618 



Fulmar Petrel Procellaria glacialis (U9 



Sub-Familii DIOMEDEIN.K 620 



Wandering Albatross Diomedca exulans 620 



Family LARIB.K ; Sub-Family LARIN^: ; GUM.S 621 



Skua Gull- Sterarrariuscatarrhactes, orMegalestrisskua 621 



Common Gull Larus canus 623 



Kittiwake Gull Rissa trydactyla 623 



Sub-Family RHYNCOPIN*: 



Scissor-Bill lihi/ncops nigra 624 



Sub-Family STERNIN/K ; TKRNS 624 



Tern Sterna hirumlo 624 



Noddy Ajious stolidus 624 



Family PEI.ECANID*: ; PELICANS; Sub-Family PH&TOXKM. 626 



Tropic Bird Phaeton aethereus 626 



Sub-Family PLOTIN/E ; DARTERS 627 



Darter Plotus anhinga 627 



Sub-Family PELECANIN^: : 



Gannet, or Solan Goose Sula bassanea 628 



Cormorant Graculus carbo 629 



Pelican Pelec<inns viwcrotalits 630 



Frigate Bird Tai.iiypetes aquilus 631 



