THE BIKDS 



NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA: 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



OF THE 



HIGHER GROUPS, GENERA, SPECIES, AND SUBSPECIES OF BIRDS 



KNOWN TO OCCUR IN NORTH AMERICA, FROM THE 



ARCTIC LANDS TO THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA 



THE WEST INDIES AND OTHER ISLANDS 



OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA, AND THE 



GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO 



CURATOR, DIVISION OF BIRDS. 



PART YIII. 



Family Jacanidae — The Jacanas. 

 Family (Edicnemidae — Tlie Thick-knees. 

 Family Haemaiopodidse — The Oyster-catchers. 

 Family Arenariidae — The Turnstones. 

 Family Aphrizidae — The Su'-f Birds. 

 Family Charadriidee— The Plovers. 

 Family Scolopacidae — The Snipes, 



Family Phalaropodidae — The Phalaropes. 

 Family Recurviroslridae — The Avocets and Stilts. 

 Family Rynchopidae— The Skimmers. 

 Family Steinidae— The Terns. 

 Family Laridae— The Gulls. 

 Family Stercorariid* — The Skua?. 

 Family Alcidae — The Auks. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVEIIXMENT PRIXTING OFFICE. 

 1919. 



