The Audubon Societies 



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will bring us into touch with all our feathered spring travelers and summer 

 neighbors, we find that the list includes all kinds of birds, living on land or 

 water, or in the air above us. - _ 



An Outline of North American Birds 



Name of Species 



Loon 



Herring Gull 



Wilson's Petrel 



White Pelican 



Canada Goose 



[Flamingo, tropical] 



Great Blue Heron 



Coot 



Spotted Sandpiper 



(Bob- White, etc., resid't). 



Mourning Dove 



Bald Eagle 



[Carolina Paroquet] 



Belted Kingfisher 



Downy Woodpecker 



Chimney Swift 



I. Diving Birds 



II. Long-winged Swimmers 



III. Tube-nosed Swimmers. 



IV. Totipalmate Swimmers. 

 V. Ducks, Geese and Swans 



VI. "Long-legged Ducks" . . 



VII. Wading Birds 



VIII. Running Birds 



IX. Shore Birds 



X. Gallinaceous Birds 



XL Pigeons and Doves 



XII. Birds of Prey 



XIII. Parrots, Macaws, etc.... 



XIV. Cuckoos, Trogons, etc... 

 XV. Woodpeckers 



XVI. Goatsuckers, Swifts, etc. 

 XVII. Perching Birds 



No. of 

 Fami- 

 lies 



No. of 



No. of 



Genera 



Species 



3 



17 



33 



3 



12 



47 



2 



17 



40 



6 



6 



20 



I 



30 



58 



I 



I 



I 



4 



16 



21 



3 



10 



21 



7 



42 



69 



4 



14 



23 



I 



10 



14 



6 



32 



59 



I 



2 



2 



3 



6 



II 



I 



10 



24 



3 



19 



28 



24 



1 



138 



352 



No. of 

 Sub- 

 species 



2 



9 

 16 



34 



4 



437 



Note : — Fifty species and seventy-two subspecies are extralimital. A. O. U. Checli-List, 1910. 



Name of Species 

 Tropical 



[Cotinga] 



Kingbird 



Horned Lark 



Crow 



Starling 



Cowbird 



Order XVII — Perching Birds 



Suborder 



Family 



Clamatores, or 

 Songless Birds 



Song Sparrov 



J I. Cotingas. 

 i 2. Flycatchers. 



3. Larks. 



4. Crows, Jays, Ravens, etc. 



5. Starlings. 



6. Blackbirds, Orioles, Crackles, 

 etc. 



7. Grosbeaks, Finches, Spar- 

 rows, etc. 



8. Tanagers. 



9. Swallows. 



10. Waxwings. 



11. Shrikes. -' 



12. Vireos. 



13. Honey Creepers. 



14. Wood Warblers. 



15. Wagtails. 



16. Dippers. 



17. Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc. 



18. Wrens. 



19. Creepers. 



20. Nuthatches. 



21. Chickadees. 



22. Wren-Tits. 



23. Kinglets, Gnatcatchers, etc. 



24. Thrushes, Robins, Bluebirds, 

 etc. 



Note : — Brackets signify southern species sparingly represented in North America; parentheses, resi- 

 dent species or those not commonly known. 



Scarlet Tanager 



Barn Swallow 



Cedar Wax wing 



Northern Shrike 



Red-eyed Vireo 



[Bahama Honey Creeper, sub- 

 tropical] 



Redstart 



(Pipit) 



(Dipper) 



Brown Thrasher 



House Wren 



Brown Creeper 



(White-breasted Nuthatch, resi- 

 dent) 



(Chickadee, resident) 



(Wren-Tit) 



Ruby-crowned Kinglet 



Robin 



Oscines 



True Singing Birds 



