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Genus SCOLOPAX 229 



Scolopax rusticola. Woodcock 28. 231 



major. Great Snipe 28. 237 



gallinago. Common Snipe 28. 241 



gallinulfi. Jack Snipe 28. 247 



Family LARIM3 251 



Genus STERNA 252 



Sterna nigra. Black Tern .49. 254 



leucoptem. White- winged Black Tern 49. 257 



- hybrida. Whiskered Tern 49. 260 



- anglica. Gull-billed Tern 47. 263 



caspia. Caspian Tern ; 47. 268 



cantiaca. Sandwich Tern 48. 272 



dougalli. Roseate Tern 46. 277 



hirundo. Common Tern 46. 280 



arctica. Arctic Tern 46. 284 



minuta. Lesser Tern 46. 289 



fulif/inosa. Sooty Tern 48. 292 



Genus LARUS 296 



Larus sabinii. Sabine's Gull 54. 298 



minutus. Little Gull 54. 301 



rossi. Ross's Gull 305 



Philadelphia. Bonaparte's Gull 54. 307 



ridibundus. Black-headed Gull 53. 310 



canus. Common Gull 52. 316 



fvscus. Lesser Black-backed Gull 51. 319 



marinus. Great Black-backed Gull 52. 323 



argentatus. Herring-Gull 51. 326 



glaucus. Glaucous Gull 50. 330 



leucopterus. Iceland Gull 51. 333 



eburneus. Ivory Gull 50. 337 



tridactylus. Kittiwake 50. 340 



Genus STERCORARIUS 345 



Stercorarius catarrhactes. Great Skua 55. 346 



pomarinus. Pomarine Skua 55. 349 



richardsoni . Richardson's Skua 55. 353 



buffoni. Buffon's Skua 55. 358 



