The Audubon Societies 



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will bring us into touch with all our feathered spring travelers and summer 

 neighbors, we find that the list includes all kinds of birds, living on land or 

 water, or in the air above us. 



An Outline of North American Birds 



Name of Species 



No. of 

 Fami- 

 lies 



No. of 

 Genera 



No. of 

 Species 



No. of 

 Sub- 

 species 



Loon 



Herring Gull 



Wilson's Petrel 



White Pelican 



Canada Goose 



[Flamingo, tropical] 



Great Blue Heron 



Coot 



Spotted Sandi)iper 



(Bob-White, etc., resid't). 



Mourning Do\'e 



Bald Eagle 



[Carolina Paroquet] 



Belted Kingfisher 



Downy Woodpecker 



Chimney Swift 



I. 



II. 



III. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 



VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 



XII. 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV. 



XVI. 



XVII. 



Diving Birds 



Long-winged Swimmers. 

 Tube-nosed Swimmers. . 

 Totipalmate Swimmers.. 

 Ducks, Geese and Swans 

 "Long-legged Ducks" . . 



Wading Birds 



Running Birds 



Shore Birds 



Gallinaceous Birds 



Pigeons and Doves 



Birds of Prey 



Parrots, Macaws, etc.... 

 Cuckoos, Trogons, etc... 



Woodpeckers 



Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. 

 Perching Birds 



6 



lO 



19 

 138 



24 



28 



352 



34 



4 



437 



Note :— Fifty species and seventy-two subspecies are extralimital. A. O. U. Check-List, 1910. 



Order XVII — Perching Birds 



Name of Spec 

 Tropical 



[Cotinga] 



Kingbird 



Horned Lark 



Crow 



Starling 



Cowbird 



Song Sparrow 



Scarlet Tanager 



Barn Swallow 



Cedar Wax wing 



Northern Shrike 



Red-eyed Vireo 



[Bahama Honey Creeper, sub- 

 tropical] 



Redstart 



(Pipit) 



(Dipper) 



Brown Thrasher 



House Wren 



Brown Creeper 



(White-breasted Nuthatch, resi- 

 dent) 



(Chickadee, resident) 



(Wren-Tit) 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet 



Robin 



Note : — Brackets signify southern species sparingly represen 

 dent species or those not commonly known. 



14. Wood Warblers. 



15. Wagtails. 



16. Dippers. 



17. Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc, 



18. Wrens. 



19. Creepers. 



20. Nuthatches. 



21. Chickadees. 



22. Wren-Tits. 



23. Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, etc. 



24. Thrushes, Robins, Bluebirds, 



etc. 

 ted in North America; parentheses, resi- 



