no THE STORY OF THE BIRDS 



southern seas, having their breeding stations 

 on various lonely islands right round this 

 portion of the world, between the Cape of 

 Good Hope and Cape Horn. Our next order 

 is composed of the Divers and Grebes. Of 

 these two families the Divers are essentially 

 an arctic and sub-arctic group, confined to 

 the northern portions of the Nearctic and 

 Palaearctic regions, furnishing another instance 

 in support of the view held by some naturalists 

 that these two areas should be merged into 

 one. The Grebes, on the other hand, are 

 cosmopolitan in their dispersal, and more or 

 less generally distributed throughout the world 

 in all suitable places, almost from one pole 

 to the other. The next order, the Petrels, is 

 equally as cosmopolitan in its distribution, only 

 instead of land, these birds are dispersed far 

 and wide over every ocean on the globe. 

 Perhaps they are most numerous in the southern 

 seas, and although as a group so universally 

 distributed, many of the species appear to 

 be very local, at all events during the breeding 

 season, almost the only time when they 

 normally visit the land. 



The Herons, Storks, Spoonbills, Ibises, and 

 one or two other aberrant species that compose 



