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Our Common Birds and How to Know Them 
into the following sub-orders : 
Podicipedes : Grebes. 
Cepphi: Loons and Auks. 
Ibides : Spoonbills and Ibises. 
Ciconiz : Storks, etc. 
Herodii ; Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, etc. 
Grues : Cranes, 
/ Ralli: Rails, Gallinules, Coots, etc. 
Phasiani: Pheasants, Grouse, Partridges, 
Quails, etc. 
Penelopes : Curassows and Guans, 
Sarcorhamphi : American Vultures. 
11 Falcones: Vultures, Falcons, Hawks, 
Eagles, Kites, Harriers, etc. 
12 Striges : Owls. 
13 Cuculi : Cuckoos, etc. 
14 Trogones : Trogons. 
15 Alcyones : Kingfishers. 
Goatsuckers, ete. 
Swifts. 
16 Caprimulgi : 
17 Cypseli : 
18 Trochili : Hummingbirds, 
19 Clamatores : Songless Perching Birds. 
20 Oscines : Song Birds. 
Buzzards, 
And these, again, into sixty-six families and forty-six sub-families, and into genera, 
species and varieties to a bewildering extent. 
There are about one thousand kinds mentioned in the CHeck List of the American 
Ornithologist’s Union, some of which are not properly North American Birds ; and Dr. 
Coues in his Key describes nearly nine hundred varieties, including birds like the Skylark, 
