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Tliree-Toed Lapwings (Hoplopterus) Wattled Lapwings (Lobivanellus) Stilts 

 (Himantopus) Avocets (Recurvirostra) Oyster-Catchers (Hcematop us) Curlews 

 and Whimbrels (Numenius) Phalaropes (Phalaropus) Hard-Billed Sandpipers 

 and Ruffs (Totanus) God wits (Lirnosa) Snipe-Beaked Sandpipers (Ereunetes) 

 Turnstones (Strepsilas) Cleft-Footed Sandpipers (Tringa) Sanderling (Calidris) 

 Painted Snipe (Rhynchwa) AVoodcock and Snipe (ticolopax) Jacanas and 

 Water - Pheasants (Family Parridce) Sheath-Bills (Family Chionididce) Seed- 

 Snipe (Family Thinocoridce) The Gull Tribe (Order Gavice) Terns, Skimmers, 

 and Gulls (Family Laridce) Terns (Hydrochelidon and Sterna) Noddies (Anous) 

 Skimmers (Rhynchops) Fork-Tailed Gulls (Xema) Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia) 

 Typical Gulls (Larus) Kittiwakes (Rissd) Ivory Gull (Pagophila) The Skuas 

 (Family Stercorariidce), . . . . . . . . .470 



CHAPTER XX. THE TUBE-NOSED BIRDS, DIVING BIRDS, AND PENGUINS, 

 Orders Tubinares, Pygopodes, and Impennes. 



Characteristics of the Tube-Nosed Birds The Albatrosses (Family Diomedeidce) The 

 Petrels (Family Procellariidce) Giant Petrel (Ossifraga) Fulmar Petrel (Fulmarus) 

 Allied Genera Shearwaters (Puffinus) Capped Petrel and Bulwer's Petrel 

 (CEstrelata and Bulweria) Cape Petrel (Daption) Dove- Petrels (Prion) Storm- 

 Petrels (Procellaria) Allied Petrels Wilson's Petrel (Oceanites)The Diving Petrel 

 (Pelecanoides) The Diving Birds (Order Pygopodes)The Auks (Family Alcidce) 

 True Auks (A lea) Great Auk Razorbill Guillemots ( Uria) Short-Billed 

 Guillemots (Brachyrhamphus) Little Auk (Mergulus) Pacific Pigmy Auks (Simo- 

 rhynchus, etc.) Puffins (Fratercula) The Divers (Family Colymbida') The Grebes 

 (Family Podicipedidce) Typical Grebes (Podidpes) Thick-Billed Grebes (Pod- 

 ilymbus) The Penguins (Order Impennes) The Genera and Habits of the Spheniscidce, 519 



CHAPTER XXI. THE TINAMUS, FLIGHTLESS BIRDS, ETC, Groups Crypturi, 

 Stereornithes, Ratitce, Odontornithes, and Saururce. 



Characters and Genera of the Tinamus (Order Crypturi, Family Tinamidce) Extinct 

 Patagonian Flightless Birds (Group Stereornithes) The Flightless or Ostrich-Like 

 Birds (Subclass Ratitce) The Ostriches (Family Struthionidce) Their Distribution 

 and Habits Capture and Domestication The Rheas or American Ostriches (Family 

 Rheidce) The Cassowaries and Emeus (Family Casuariidce) Cassowaries (Casuarius) 

 Emeus (Dromceus) Allied Extinct Birds The Kiwis (Family Apterygidce) 

 The Extinct Moas (Family Dinornithidce) The sEpyornithidce Toothed-Birds 

 (Group Odontornithes) Lizard-Tailed Birds (Subclass Saururn?, Genus Archceopteryx), . 551 



INDEX, ... ..... 577 



