SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Bulletin SO | 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 



3 1924 090 256 912 



THE BIRDS OF 

 NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG 



OF THE 



HIGHER GROUPS, GENERA, SPECIES, AND SUBSPECIES OF BIRDS 



KNOWN TO OCCUR IN NORTH AMERICA, FROM THE 



ARCTIC LANDS TO THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA 



THE WEST INDIES AND OTHER ISLANDS 



OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA, AND THE 



GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO 



By 

 ROBERT RIDGWAY 



Continued by 



HERBERT FRIEDMANN 



Part IX 



Family Gruidae — The Cranes 

 Family Rallidae — The Rails, Coots, and Gallinules 

 Family Heliornithidae — ^The Sun-grebes 

 Family Eurypygidae — The Sun-bitterns 



UNITED STATES 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



WASHINGTON : 1941 



For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. 



Price 40 cents (Paper) 



