BIRDS GROUPED IN FAMILIES. 

 SCIENTIFIC ORDER. 



Order — Longipennes. {Long-winged 

 Swimmers^ 



Family — Larid^e. {Gulls and Terns.) 



Pacific Kittiwake. (Rissa tridactyla pollicaris.) Ridgw. 

 Glaucus-winged Gull. (Larus glaucescens.) Naum. 

 Western Gull. (Larus occidentalis.) Aud. 

 American Herring Gull. (Larus argentatus smithsoni- 



anus.) Coues. 

 California Gull. (Larus californicus.) Lawr. 

 Ring-billed Gull. (Larus delawarensis.) Ord. 

 Short-billed Gull. (Larus brachyrhynchus.) Rich. 

 Bonaparte's Gull, (Larus Philadelphia.) (Ord.) 

 Arctic Tern. (Sterna paradisaea.) Briinn. 

 Black Tern. (Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis.) 



(Gmel.) 



Order — Herodiones. {Herons, Storks, 

 Ibises, etc.) 



Family — Ardeid^e. {Herons, Bittertis, etc.) 

 American Bittern. (Botaurus lentiginosus.) (Montag.) 

 Great Blue Heron. (Ardea herodias.) Linn. 

 Green Heron. (Ardea virescens.) Linn. 



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