CONTENTS 



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PACK 



Genus MACHETES (Ruff) 622-626 



TOTANUS (Common Sandpiper, &c.) . . 626-638 



MACRORHAMPHUS (Red-Breasted Snipe) . 638 



LIMOSA (Bar-Tailed Godwit, &c.) . . 639-642 



NUMENIUS (Common Curlew, &c.) . . 643-648 



HYDROCHELIDON (Black Tern, &c.) . . 648-651 



STERNA (Gull-Billed Tern, &c.) . . , 651-662 



XEMA (Sabine's Gull) ...... 662-665 



RHODOSTETHIA (Ross's Gull) .. . ^ 665-667 



LARUS (Little Gull, &c.) . . . . 667-688 



RISSA (Kittiwake) . . 689-693 



PAGOPHILA (Ivory Gull) . . 693-694 



MEGALESTRIS (Great Skua) . . . 694-696 



STERCORARIUS (Pomatorhine Skua, &c.) . 696-708 



ALCA (Razorbill) .... . 708-710 



LOMVIA (Guillemot) ...... 711-724 



URIA (Brunnich's Guillemot, &c.) . . 724-727 



FRATERCULA (Puffin) ..... 727-729 



MERGULUS (Little Auk) . .. .. . 73-73 2 



COLYMBUS (Great Northern Diver, &c.) . 732-738 



PODICIPES (Great Crested Grebe, &c.) . 738-748 



PROCELLARIA (Storm Petrel) . , . 748-749 

 OCEANODROMA (Leach's Fork-Tailed Petrel, 



&c.) , . . 750-752 



PUFFINUS (Great Shearwater, &c.) . . 752-761 



BULWERIA (Bulwer's Petrel) . . . 762-764 



FULMARUS (Fulmar) ...<. 764-765 



APPENDICES 



WILD BIRDS' PROTECTION ..... 767-773 



EXTRACTS FROM ANCIENT RECORDS . . . 774-775 



LITERATURE CONSULTED 776-777 



INDEX OF BIRDS ....... 779-808 



INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES .... 809-843 



