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tion on important points. I am also under obligations to Mr. J. 

 A. Allen, the Curator for the Department of Ornithology in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, at New York, for some use- 

 ful hints in regard to the classifying, etc., of the birds herein 

 named. 



The nomenclature used is taken from The Code of Nomencla- 

 ture adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union.* In some 

 cases I have added in parenthesis the locally more common names. 



Where I have mentioned a species as resident I have not meant 

 that the same individual birds of that species stay with us the year 

 through the same as our summer birds which are marked as summer 

 residents do through the summer months, but that birds of that 

 species are to be found here throughout the year. Again, in not- 

 ing a species as common, I wish the word to be understood in a 

 comparative sense, particularly when applied to water-birds and 

 birds of prey, meaning that such species are common as compared 

 with others of the same family which are much less common. As 

 a rule, too, most of the species mentioned as common are so only 

 in favorable localities. In some cases I have seen fit to give, in the 

 interest of readers in this vicinity, the localities where certain 

 species may be found. 



Order PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 



Suborder PODICIPEDES. Grebes. 



Family PODICIPIDja. Grebes. 



Genus PODILYMBUS Lesson. 



1. Podilymbus podiceps (Linn.). 



Pied-billed Grebe. (Dipper. Hell-Diver.) 

 Rather common during the spring and fall migrations. 



Suborder CEPPHI. Loons and Auks. 



Family URINATORID^. Loons. 



Genus URINATOR Cuvier. 



* The Code of Nomenclature and Check List of North Americ.in birds adopted 

 by the American Ornithologists' Union, being the Report of the Committee of the 

 Union on Classification and Nomenclature. New York, 1886. 



