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 paradisasa.) Briinn. 

 Black Tern. (Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis.) 



(Gmel.) 



ORDER HERODIONES. (Herons, Storks, 

 Ibises, etc.] 



FAMILY ARDEID.E. (Herons, Bitterns, etc.) 

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

 Great Blue Heron. (Ardea herodias.) Linn. 

 Green Heron. (Ardea virescens.) Linn. 



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