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CONTENTS. 



THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA EAST OF THE NINE- 

 TIETH MERIDIAN . 



Key to Orders and Families 



I. Order Pygopodes : Diving Birds 



1. Family PodicipidiB : Grebes 



2. Family Urinatorida3 : Loons 



3. Family AlcidaB : Auks, Murres, and Puffins 



II. Order Longipennes: Long-winged Swimmers 



4. Family Stercorariidas : Skuas and Jaegers 



5. Family Laridae : Gulls and Terns 



6. Rynchopidae : Skimmers 



III. Order Tubinares: Tube-nosed Swimmers 



7. Family Diomedeidae : Albatrosses 



8. Procellariidae : Petrels, Fulmars, and Shearwate 



IV. Order Steganopodes : Totipalmate Swimmers 



9. Family Phaethonlidae : Tropic Birds . 



10. Family Sulidfe : Gannets . 



11. Family Anhingidae : Darters 



12. Family Phalacroeoracidae : Cormorants 



13. Family Pelecanidse : Pelicans . 



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



V. Order Anseres : Lamellirostral Swimmers 



15. Family AnatidaB : Ducks, Geese, and Swans 



VI. Order Odontogloss^ : Lamellirostral Grallatores 



16. Family Phoenicopteridae : Flamingoes 



VII. Order Herodiones : Herons, Storks, Ibises, etc. 



17. Family Plataleidap : Spoonbills . 



18. Family IbididaB : Ibises .... 



19. Family Ciconiidt'e : Storks and Wood Ibises 



20. Family Ardeidae : Herons, Egrets, and Bittern.' 



VIII. Order Paludicol^ : Cranes, Rails, etc. 



21. Family Gruidae : Cranes .... 



22. Family AramidaB : Courlans 



23. Family Rallidae : Rails, Gallinules, and Coots 



IX. Order Limicol^ : Shore Birds 



24. Family Phalaropodida; : Phalaropes . 



25. Family Recurvirostrida? : Stilts and Avocets 



26. Family Scolopacida^ : Snipes, Sandpipers, etc. 



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