KEY TO FAMILIES. 



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Fio. 11. 



Fio. 14. 



FiQ. 10. 



Fio. 15. 



Order TV. Steganopodes. — Gannets, Coemokants, Pelicans (Fig. 

 10), etc. 

 All the toes, including the hind one, connected by webs. 



A. Bill generally sharply pointed, without a hawklike hook at its tip. 

 a. Chin, or space between the forks of the lower mandible, feath- 

 ered. . . . Family Fhaefhontidai : Tkopic Bikds (Fig. 11), p. 91. 



h. Chin bare, 

 i'. Bill stout and slightly curved at the tip; middle tail-feathers 



without " flutings ". . . . Family . Sulidce : Gaitnbts (Fig. 12), 



p. 92. 

 Ifl. Bill straight and slender; middle tail-feathers fluted. . . . 



Family AnMngidm : Darters (Fig. 13), p. 93. 



B. Bill with a hawklike hook at the tip. 

 14. Lores bare. 



a>. Bill over 12-00, with a large pouoh. . . . Family Felecamdcs: 



Pelicans, p. 95. 

 a'. Bill under 12'00, no large pouch. . . . Family FTialacroeora- 



cidcB : Cormorants (Fig. 14), p. 94. 

 h. Lores feathered. . . . Family Fregatidce : Man-o'-wae Bjeds (Fig. 

 16), p. 97. 



