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THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA EAST OF THE NINE- 

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Key to Orders and Families 



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waters 



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I. Order Pygopodes : Diving Birds . 



1. Family Podicipida? : Grebes 



2. Family Urinatoridae : Loons 



3. Family Alcidae: Auks, Murres, and Puffins 



II. Order Longipexnes : Long-winged Swimmers 



4. Family Stercorariidte : Skuas and Jaegers 



5. Family Laridte : Gulls and Terns 



6. RynehopidiB : Skimmers 



Order Tubinares : Tube-nosed Swimmers 



7. Family Diomedeidas : Albatrosses 



8. Procellariida3 : Petrels, Fulmars, and Shear 



Order Steganopodes : Totipalmate Swimmers 

 9. Family Phaethontidae : Tropic Birds . 



10. Family Sulidie : Gannets . 



11. Family Anhingidae: Darters 



12. Family Phalaerocoracidae : Cormorants 



13. Family Pelecanidse : Pelicans . 



14. Family Fregatidae : Man-o'-War Birds 



V. Order Anseres: Lamellirostral Swimmers 



15. Family Anatidae: Ducks, Geese, and Swans 



VI. Order Odontogloss^ : Lamellirostral Grallatores 



16. Family Phoenicopterida?: Flamingoes 



Order Herodiones : Herons, Storks, Ibises, etc. 



17. Family Plataleidae : Spoonbills . 



18. Family Ibididae : Ibises .... 



19. Family Ciconiidae: Storks and Wood Ibises 



20. Family Ardeidae : Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns 



Order Paludicol^ : Cranes, Rails, etc 



21. Family Gruida> : Cranes .... 



22. Family Aramida^ : Courlans 



23. Family Rallidae: Rails. Gallinules, and Coots 



IX. Order Limicol^: Shore Birds 



24. Family Phalaropodidfe : Phalaropes . 



25. Family Recurvirostrida? : Stilts and Avocets 



26. Family Scolopacida^ : Snipes, Sandi)ipers. etc. 



