10 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
15. RAPTORES—Continued. 
Useful traits : 
Scavengers, (vultures, buzzards.) 
Destroy vermin, (owls, hawks.) 
Injurious traits: Destroy domestic animals, eggs, Wc. 
16. COLUMBAL. (Pigeons and doves.) 
Useful products: 
Food. 
Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 
Useful traits : 
Game-birds. 
Susceptible of domestication. 
Used as targets, (wild pigeon.) B. 25. 
Used as carriers, (carrier-pigeon.) 
17. GALLINAL., (Turkey, grouse, partridge, sage-cock, ptarmigan 
quail, and the domesticated peacock, guinea-fowl, 
and fowl.) 
‘Useful products : 
Foods, flesh. D.1. 
Ornamental feathers. D. <3. 
Quills. D, 22, 
Albumen. D. 30. 
Useful traits: 
Game-birds. 
Susceptible of domestication. 
18. LIMICOLA,. (Plover, ring-neck, surf-bird, oyster-vatcher, turnstone 
avoset, stilt, phalarope, woodcock, snipe, sandpiper 
dunlin, godwit, sanderling, willet, tattler, yellow 
shanks, green-shanks, curlew.} 
Useful products: 
Food: Flesh. D. 1. 
Eggs. D.1. 
Feathers. D. 23. 
Useful traits: Game-birds. 
19. HERODIONES. (Ibises, spoonbills, herons, egrets, bitterns.) 
Useful products: Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 
Useful traits: Destroy vermin. 
