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CHAPTER XIV.—HeErons, Srorks, AND Ipises,—Order Herodiones. 
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Characteristics of the Group—The Heron Tribe (Family Ardeidw)—True Herons (Ardea) 
—Great White Heron—Little Egret—Other Species—Night Herons (Nycticorax)— 
Little Bittern (Ardetta) — Bitterns (Botaurus) — Boat-Billed Heron (Canchroma) — 
Whale-Headed Stork (Family Balenicipitide)—Hammer- Head (Family Scopide) 
—The Stork Tribe (Family Ciconiide)— True Storks (Ciconia)— Maguari Stork 
(Dissura) — White - Bellied Stork (Abdimia)—Jabirus or Giant Storks (Mycteria) 
— Adjutant or Marabou Storks (Leptoptilus)—Shell -Storks (Anastomus) — Wood 
Storks (Tantalus and Pseudotantalus)—Ibises and Spoonbills (Family Plataleidw) 
—Ihbises (Ibis, etc.) —Spoonbills (Platalea) 
CHAPTER XV.—Framincors, Ducks, AND SCREAMERS,—Orders Odontogloss?, 
Anseres, and Palamedece. 
Common Characters of the Three Groups.—The Flamingoes (Order Odontoglossi, Family 

Phenicopteride) —'True Flamingoes (Phenicopterus) — Short - Legged Flamingoes 
(Palelodus)—The Duck Tribe (Order Anseres, Family Anatide)—Spur-Winged Geese 
(Plectropterus)—Half-Webbed Geese (Anseranas)—Cereopsis Goose (Cereopsis) — New 
Zealand Goose (Cnremiornis)—True Geese (Anser)—Their Habits—Brent or Sea- 
Geese (Bernicla) — Northern Species — Habits — Southern Species—Egyptian and 
Knob - Winged Geese (Chenalopex)— The Swans (Cygnus) — Whistling Swans — 
Bewick’s Swan—American Swans—Mute Swan—Black-Necked Swan—Black Swan 
—Fossil Swans and Geese —Comb-Ducks (Sareidiornis) — Cotton - Teal (Nettapus) 
—Tree- Ducks or Whistling Teal (Dendrocygna)—Sheldrakes (Tadorna)—Common 
Sheldrake—Ruddy Sheldrake—The True Ducks (Anas)—Mallard— Dusky Duck— 
Gadwall—Habits of Ducks—Shoveller-Ducks (Spatula)—Pin-Tailed Ducks (Dafila) 
—Teal (Querquedula)—Wigeon (Mareca)—Summer and Mandarin- Ducks (x)— 
Pochards and Scaup-Ducks (Fuligula)—Golden-Eye and Buffel-Head (Clangula) 
—Harlequin-Duck (Cosmonetta)—Long-Tailed Duck (Harelda)—Eider-Ducks (Som- 
ateria)—Their Habits— The Scoters ((Edemia) —Stiff-Tailed Ducks (Hrismatura) 
—The Mergansers (Mergus)— Their Habits— The Screamers (Order Palamedee, 
Family Palamedeide), 

CHAPTER XVI.—THE PIGEONS AND Sanp-GrovusE,—Order Columbe. 
Characteristics of Pigeons—Green, Painted, and Fruit-Pigeons (Family Treronidw)—Wedge- 
Tailed Green Pigeons (Sphenocercus)—Other Genera (Vinago, Crocopus, etc.)— Painted 
Pigeons (Ptilopus, etc.)—Wart-Pigeons (Alectrenas) and their Allies-—Fruit- Pigeons 
(Carpophaga, ete.)—Wood, Long-Tailed and, Passenger—Pigeons (Family Columbide) 
—Rock- Dove and Allies (Columba)—Stock-Dove — Wood-Pigeon — Long - Tailed 
Pigeons (Turacena)—Cuckoo- Pigeons (Macropygia)—Allied Genera—Passenger- Pigeon 
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