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SYSTEMATIC INDEX. 



FAMILY RALLID/E, or Rails— 

 Corn Crake (Crex pratensis) . . 

 Spotted Crake (Crex porzana) 

 Baillon's Crake (Crex baUloni) 

 Little Crake (Crcx parva) 

 Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) 

 Water Hen (Gullinula chloropus) . . 

 Common Coot (Fulica atra) . . 



FAMILY OTIDID/E, or Bustards— 

 Great Bustard (Otis tarda) 

 Little Bustard (Otis tetrax) . . 

 Macqueen's Bustard (Otis macquccni) 

 Thick Knee (QZdicnemus crepitans) 



FAMILY ALCIDiE, or Auks— 

 Great Auk (A lea impennis) 

 Razor Bill (A lea tarda) 

 Common Guillemot (A lea troile) . . 

 Briinnich's Guillemot (A lea brunichi) 

 Black Guillemot (Alca grylle) 

 Little Auk (Alca alle) 

 Puffin (Fratereitla arctica) 



FAMILY LARID.E, or Gulls and Terns- 

 Black Tern (Sterna nigra) 

 White-winged Black Tern (Sterna leucoptcia) 

 Whiskered Tern (Sterna hybrida) 

 Gull-billed Tern (Sterna anglica) . . 

 Caspian Tern (Sterna easpia) . . 

 Sandwich Tern (Sterna cantiaca) . . 

 Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) 

 Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) 

 Arctic Tern (Sterna arctica) . . 

 Lesser Tern (Sterna minuta) 

 Sooty Tern (Sterna fuliginosa) 

 Smaller Sooty Tern (Sterna anastheta) 

 Noddy Tern (Sterna stolida) . . 

 Sabine's Gull (Larus sabinii) 

 Ross's Gull (Larus rossi) 

 Bonaparte's Gull (Larus Philadelphia) 

 Little Gull (Larus minutus) . . 

 Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) 

 Adriatic Black-headed Gull (Larus melanoeephalus) 

 Great Black-headed Gull (Larus ichthyactus) 

 Common Gull (Larus canus) 

 Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 

 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) . . 

 Great Blacked-backed Gull (Larus marinus) 



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