CONTENTS Xi 



—Three-Toed Lapwings (fToj^/ojj^ertts) — Wattled Lapwings (LofcimneM-us) — Stilts 

 {Himantopus) — Avocets (Recurvirostra) — Oyster- Catchers (Hcematopus) — Curlews 

 and Whimbrels {Numenius) — Phalaropes (Phalaropus) — Hard-Billed Sandpij)ers 

 and Ruffs (Totanus) — Godwits (Limosa) — Snipe-Beaked Sandpipers (Ereunetes) 

 — ^Turnstones (Strepsilas)—Cleit-Footed Sandpipers (Tringa) — Sanderling (Calidris) 

 — Painted Snipe {Rhijnchoea) — Woodcock and Snipe {Hcolopax) — Jacanas and 

 Water - Pheasants (Family Parridce) — Sheath-Bills (Family Chionididai) — Seed- 

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

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

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

 Typical Gulls (Larws)— Kittiwakes (Rissa)—lvovy Gull {Pagophila)—The Skuas 

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



CHAPTER XX. — The Tube-Nosed Birds, Divixg Birds, and Penguins, — 

 Orders Tubiiiares, 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 (Alca) — Great Auk — Razorbill — Guillemots (Jlria) — Short- Billed 

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

 rhynchus, etc.) — Puffins {Fratercula) — The Divers (Family Golymbidce) — 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. 



CJharacters 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 Gasuariidoe) — Cassowaries (Casuarius) — 

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

 The Extinct Moas (Family Dinornithidoi) — The yEpyornithidce — Toothed-Birds 

 (Group Odontornithes) — Lizard-Tailed Birds (Subclass Saururce, Genus Archceopteryx), . 551 



Index, .,.......••. 577 



