SYSTEMATIC SYXOPSI^^ OF LIVIXG NORTH 



AMERICAN BIRDS TO AND INCLUDING 



THE FAMILIES 



Class Aves: Birds. 



Sub-Class Carinate: (Embracing all living birds except 

 Ratita.) 

 Order Pygopodes. Diving Birds. 

 Suborder Colymbi. Grebes. 



Family Colymhidop. Grebes. 

 Suborder Cepphi. Loons and Auks. 

 Family Gaviidop. Loons. 

 Family Alcidoe. Auks, Murres and Puffins. 

 Order Longipennes. Long-winged Swimmers. 

 Family Stercorariidce. Skuas and Jaegers. 

 Family Laridoe. Gulls and Terns. 

 Family Rynchopidop. Skimmers. 

 Order Tubinares. Tube-nosed Swimmers. 

 Family Diomedcidce. Albatrosses. 

 Family Procellariidae. Fulmars, Shearwaters and 

 Petrels. 

 Order Steganopodes. Totipalmate Swimmers. 

 Family PhoEthontidac. Tropic Birds. 

 Family Sulidop. Gannets. 

 Family Anhingidce. Darters. 

 Family Phalacrocoracidoe. Cormorants. 

 Family Pclccariidop. Pelicans. 

 Family Frcgatidcp. Man-o' -war-birds. 

 Order Ansercs. Lamellirostral Swimmers. 



Family Anatidtr. Ducks, Geese and Swans. 

 Order Odontoglossw. Lamellirostral Grallatores. 

 Family Phoenicopteridcp. Flamingoes. 

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