CONTENTS. 



IX 



CHAPTER II. 



DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS, AKD PELICANS. 



PAGE 



Mallard 232 



Grolden-eySd Garrot 242 



Poacliard 243 



Shoveller 244 



Shieldrake 246 



Eider Duck 247 



Common Teal 250 



Velvet Duck 2/53 



Scoter, Black 253 



Great-billed 258 



Goosander 259 



Smew 260 



Goose 261 



Wild 262 



Bean 266 



Domestic 266 



Bemicle 269 



PASE 



Goose — 

 White-fronted Bemicle .... 269 



Swan 270 



Whooping 273 



Black 277 



Frigate Bird 277 



Tropic Bird 279 



Darter 281 



Gannet 283 



Cormorant 285 



Shag 289 



Pelicans 291 



White 294- 



Crested 295 



Brown 296 



Spectacled 297 



CHAPTER in. 



THE LARID^. 



Tern 299 



Little 301 



Noddy 302 



Silver-winged 302 



Arctic 302 



Whiskered 303 



Gull-hnied 303 



Roseate 303 



Sandwich 303 



Caspian 303 



Scissors-bills 303 



Black 304 



Gulls 304 



Large White- winged 306 



Great Black-backed 306 



Herring 306 



Sea Mews 304 



White, or Senator 307 



Brown-masked 307 



Laughing 307 



Grey 308 



Skua 308 



Parasite 309 



Richardson's 309 



Pomerine 309 



Common 310 



Petrels 310 



Giant 311 



Chequered 311 



Fulmar 311 



Stormy 311 



Blue 312 



Puffins 312 



Grey 312 



English 312 



Brown 312 



Albatross 313 



Common 314 



Black-browed 314 



Brown 314 



Yellow and Black-beaked . . . .314 



CHAPTER IV. 



GBALLATORES, OE, WADINO BIRDS. 



Palmidactyles : 



Flamingo 317 



Avocet 320 



StUtBird 321 



Water Hens 322 



Common 323 



Purple, or Sultana Fowl .... 324 



RaUs 326 



Coots 326 



Bald 326 



Crested 32f 



Blue 32S 



Glareola 32f 



Jacana 32! 



Kamichi 33( 



Homed 33i 



Faithful 335 



