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SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 



FAMILY ANATID/E, or Swans, Geese and Ducks— 

 Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) 

 Whooper, or Wild Swan (Cygnus musicus) 

 Bewick's Swan (Cygnus beivicki) 

 Snow Goose (Anser hyperboreus) 

 Bean Goose (Anser segctum) .. 

 Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) .. 

 Grey Lag-Goose (A user cinereus) 

 White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) 

 Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons minutus) 

 Brent Goose (Anser brenta) 

 Bernacle Goose (Anser leucopsis) 

 Red-breasted Goose (Anser ruficollis) .. 

 Canada Goose (Anser canadensis) 

 Egyptian Goose (Anser agyptiacus) 

 Common Sheldrake (Tadorna cornuta) 

 Ruddy Sheldrake (Tadorna rutila) 

 Gad wall (Anas strepcra) .. 

 Pintail (Anas acuta) .. 

 Wigeon (Anas penelope) .. 

 American Wigeon (Anas americana) 

 Common Teal (Anas crecca) 

 American Teal (Anas carolincnsis) . . 

 Garganey (Anas circia) 

 Blue- winged Teal (Anas discors) 

 Shoveller (Anas clypeata) 

 Mallard (A nas boscas) 

 Red-crested Pochard (Fidigula rufina) 

 White-eyed Pochard (Fidigula nyroca) . . 

 Pochard (Fitligula ferina) 

 Scaup (Fidigula marila) 

 Tufted Duck (Fidigula cristata) 

 Buffel-headed Duck (Fidigula albeola) . . 

 Golden-Eye (Fidigula clangula) 

 Harlequin Duck (Fidigula histrionica) . . 

 Long-tailed Duck (Fidigula glacialis) 

 Black Scota (Fidigula nigra) 

 Velvet Scoter (Fidigula fusca) 

 Surf Scoter (Fidigula perspicillata) 

 Steller's Eider Duck (Somateria stclleri) 

 Common Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) 

 King Eider (Somateria spcctabilis) 

 Goosander (Mergus merganser) 

 Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) . . 

 Hooded Merganser (Mergus cucullatus/ 

 Smew (Mergus albcllus) 



FAMILY PH^ENICOPTERIDyE, or Flamingoes— 

 Common Flamingo (Phanicopterus roseus) 



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