CONTENTS 



PLATE 69. {Opposite page 54) 



Bar-tailed Godwit. Limosa lapponica 

 Black-tailed Godwit. Limosa belgica 

 Common Curlew. Numenius arquata 

 Whimbrel. Numenius p/iceopus 

 Eskimo Curlew. Numenius borealis 

 Slender-billed Curlew. Numenius tenuirostris 



Order GAVI^ 

 PLATE 70. {Opposite page 58) 



Black Tern. HydrocMidon nigra. 

 White-winged Black Tern. Hydrochelidon leu 

 coptera ...... 



Whiskered Tern. Hydrochelidon hybrida 

 Gull-billed Tern. Sterna anglica 

 Caspian Tern. Sterna caspia 

 Sooty Tern. Sterna fuliginosa 



PLATE 71. {Frontispiece) 



Sandwich Tern. Sterna cantiaca 

 Roseate Tern. Sterna dougalli 

 Common Tern. Sterna fluviatilis 

 Arctic Tern. Sterna macrura 

 Little Tern. Sterna minuta 



PLATE 72. {Opposite page 66) 



Sabine's Gull. Xema sabinii 

 Ross's Gull. Rhodostetkia rosea . 

 Bonaparte's Gull. Larus Philadelphia . 

 Little Gull. Larus minutus 

 Black-headed Gull. Larus ridibundus 

 Mediterranean Black-headed Gull. Larus mel 

 anocephalus ...... 



Common Gull. Larus canus 



PLATE 73. {Opposite page 68) 



Great Black -headed Gull. Larus ichthyaetus 

 Herring-Gull. Larus argentatus . 

 Lesser Black-backed Gull. Larus fuscus . 

 Iceland Gull. Larus leucopterus . 



PLATE 74. {Opposite page 72) 



Great Black-backed Gull. Larus marinus 

 Glaucus Gull. Larus glaucus 

 Kittiwake Gull. Rissa tridactyla 

 Ivory Gull. Pagophila eburnea . 



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PLATE 75. {Opposite page 74) 



Great Skua. Megalestris catarrhactes . 

 Pomatorhine Skua. Stercorarius pomatorhinus 

 Richardson's Skua. Stercorarius crepidatus . 

 Long-tailed or Buffon's Skua. Stercorarius 



parasiticus . . . . . . -75 



Order ALCjE 

 PLATE 76. {Opposite page 82) 



Razorbill. Alca tor da .... 

 Great Auk. Alca impenuis . 

 Common Guillemot. Uria troile . 

 Brunnich's Guillemot. Uria bruennichi 

 Black Guillemot. Uria grylle . 

 Little Auk. Mergulus alle . 

 Puffin. Fratercula arctica 



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Order PYGOPODES 

 PLATE 77. {Opposite page 84) 



Great Northern Diver. Colymbus glacialis 

 White-billed Northern Diver. Colymbus adamsi 

 Black-throated Diver. Colymbus arcticus . 

 Red-throated Diver. Colymbus septentrionalis . 



PLATE 78. {Opposite page 88) 



Great Crested Grebe. Podicipes cristatus . 

 Red-necked Grebe. Podicipes griseigena 

 Slavonian or Horned Grebe. Podicipes auritus . 

 Black-necked or Eared Grebe. Podicipes nigri- 

 collis ........ 



Little Grebe. Podicipes fluviatilis 



Order TUBINARES 

 PLATE 79. {Opposite page 92) 



Storm-Petrel. Procellaria pelagica ... 89 

 Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanodroma leu- 



corrhoa ........ 90 



Madeiran Fork-tailed Petrel. Oceanodroma castro 

 Wilson's Petrel. Oceanites oceanicus . 

 Frigate-Petrel. Pelagodroma marina . 

 Great Shearwater. Puffinus gravis 

 Sooty Shearwater. Puffinus griseus 

 Little Dusky Shearwater. Puffinus assimilis . 



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