UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



319 



GENUS DIOMEDEA. 



Wandering Albatross 

 Chocolate A. 

 Yellow-nosed A. 



Diomedea exulans. 



D. spadicea. 



D. chlororynchos. 



GENUS ALCA. 



Labrador Auk 



Crested A. 



Little A. . 



Pigmy A. 



Puffin 



Razorbill 



Penguin or Great Auk 



Aha Labradora. 

 A. cristateiia. 

 A. a'le. 

 A. pygmcea. 

 A. arctica. 

 A. torda. 

 A. impennis. 



GENUS URIA. 



Marbled Guillemot 

 Black G. 

 Foolish G. 



Uria marmoratus. 

 U. grylle. 

 V. iroile. 



GENUS COLTMBUS. 



Striped Diver . 

 Red-throated D. 

 Black-throated D. . 

 Northern D. or Loon 

 Speckled D. 

 ImberD . 



Colymbut striatu?. 

 C. septenirionaiis. 

 C. arctu-us. 

 C g'aciwis. 

 C. lUlialut. 

 C. immer. 



GENUS RTNCHOPS. 



Black Skimmer or 

 Sheerwater . . Rynchops nigra. 



GENUS STERNA. 



Sooty Tem 

 Cayenne T. 

 Surinam T. 

 Simple T. 

 Great T. 

 Lesser T. 

 Brown T. 

 Black T. . 

 Marsh T. 

 Short-tailed T. 

 • Banded-tail T, 



Sterna fuhginosa. 

 S. Cayanensis. 

 S. Surinamensis. 

 S. simplex. 

 S. hirundo. 

 S. mir.uta. 

 S. spadicea. 

 S. Jissipes. 

 S. aranea. 

 S. plumbea. 

 S. Philadelphia. 



GENUS LARUS. 



Kittiwake Gull 

 Common G. 

 Black-backed G. 

 Herring G. 

 Black headed G. 

 Arctic G. 

 Skua G. . 

 Esquimaux G. 

 Ivory G. . 

 t Toothed bill G. 



Lai-ut tridactilut. 

 L. canut. 

 L. marimtt. 

 L. /incus. 

 L. ridibundut. 

 L. parantiau. 

 L. catar octet. 

 L. k:task. 

 L. ehnrneus. 

 L. Delavoarensit. 



GENUS PROCELLARIA. 



Dusky Petrel 

 Stormy P. 

 Fork tailed P. 

 Black toed P. 

 Fulmar P. 

 Giant P. . 

 Brazilian P. 

 Ghcial P. 

 Shearwater P. 



Procellaria obscura. 

 P. pelagica. 

 P. f ureal a. 

 P. melanopus. 

 P. glacialis. 

 P. gigantea. 

 P. Braziliana. 

 P. gelida. 

 P.puffinus. 



GENUS MERGUS. 

 Crested Merganser Mergus cucullalus. 



Bed breasted M. . M. serrator. 



Brown M. . . M. fuscus. 



Blue M. . • M cwruleus. 



White Nun or Smew M. albellus. 



Goosander or Sheldrake M. merganser. 



GENUS ANAS. 



Wild Swan 

 t Whistling S. 

 Snow Goose • . 

 GrayG- . 

 Canada G. 

 Brant . 

 Gray headed Duck 

 Velvet D. 

 Scot, r D. . 



Blue-bill or Scaup D. 

 Eider D. . 

 Muscovy D. . . 

 Georgia D. . . 

 Ilathera D. . . 

 Buffel-headed D. . 

 Western D. 

 SurfD. . 

 Mexican D. . 

 Sprigtail D. 

 Long-tailed D. . 



Red-headed D. 

 Canvass-back D. . 

 Harlequin D. . • 

 Brown D. . . 



Spanish D. . . 

 Red billed D. . 

 Pied D. . 

 Summer D. 



Black-billed whistling D. 

 Dusky or Common 



Black D. 

 Tufted D. 

 Ruddy D. 



Shoveller . . 



Gadwall . 

 Spinous tailed Teal 

 Green winged T. 

 B ue- winged T. . 

 Golden eye . . 

 Widgeon or Bald-pate 

 Mexican Pochard 

 Mallard . 



Anas cygmis. 



A. Columbianus, 



A. hyperborea. 



A. anser. 



A. Canadensis. 



A. bernicla. 



A. spectabilis, 



A.fusca. 



A. nigra. 



A. marita. 



A. mollissima. 



A. moschata. 



A. Georgica. 



A. Bahamensis* 



A. albeola. 



ArStelteri. 



A. perspicillata. 



A. Novcb Hi span! > . 



A. acuta. 



A. glacialit. 



A.Jerzna. 



A. valisineria. 



A, histrionica. 



A. fuscescens. 



A. viduata. 



A. Autumnalis. 



A. Labradora. 



A. sponsa. 



A. arborea. 



A. obscura. 

 A. fuiigula. 

 A. rubulus* 

 A. clypeafa. 

 A. strepera. 

 A. spinosa. 

 A. crecca. 

 A. discors. 

 A. clangula. 

 A. Americana. 

 A. fulva. 

 A. bottha*. 



GENUS PELKANUS. 



Brown Pelican 

 Great White P. 

 Charleston P. 

 Rough-billed P, 

 Frigate P. 

 Saw-billed P. 

 Gannet 

 Lesser G. 

 Brown Booby 

 Lesser B.' 

 Corvorant 

 Shag 



Pelicanus fuscus. 

 P. onocrotalus. 

 P. Carolinensis. 

 P erythrorhynchos. 

 P. acjuilus. 

 P. thagus. 

 P. bassanus. 

 P. piscator. 

 P. .fiber. 

 P. parvus. 

 P. carbo. 

 P.graculus. 



GENUS PHAETON. 

 Common Tropic-bird Phaeton cethereus. 



GENUS PLOTUS. 



Black-bellied Darter 

 Surinam D. 



Flatus melanogaster- 

 P. Surinamtnsis. 



• This is a nondescript. Its length is twelve inches, extent thirty-one; the lower parts pure white ; 

 above blue ash ; below the auriculars there is a patch of dark slate ; the tail is white, short, almost even, 

 and crossed with a dark brown band ; a line of brown passes from the shoulder of the wing to the ter- 

 tials. Weight full five ounces avoirdupois. 



t This is a beautiful Gull, and was discovered on the Delaware below Philadelphia ; it is a nondescript. 

 Length nineteen and a half inches, extent three feet ten inches; the upper mandible has four indenta- 

 tions or blunt teeth, the lower three ; corners of the mouth and the eyelids bright vermilion ; head, neck, 

 tail and lower parts pure white; wings, back and scapulars blue ash. Weight ninteeu ounces avoirdii' 

 pois. 



X See history of Lewi3 and Clark's expedition, vol, ii, p. 192, 



