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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The Mt Marcy region 



Increase and decrease of species 



Suggestions to bird students 



Bird migration 



Spring arrivals 



Published local lists 



County schedules 



Tables of spring arrivals and dis- 

 tribution by counties 

 Classification 

 Descriptions of species 



Class Aves 

 Subclass Carinatae 



Order Pygopodes 



Diving birds 



Family Colymbidae 



Grebes 



Colymbus holboelli (Reinh-crdt) 

 (Holboell grebe) 

 Colymbus auritus Linnaeus 

 (Horned grebe) 

 Podilymbus podiceps (Linnaeus) 

 (Pied-billed grebe) 



Family Gavlidae 



Loons 



Gavia immer (Briinnich) 



(Loon) 

 Gavia arctica (Linnaeus) 

 (Black-throated loon) 

 Gavia stellata (Pontoppidan) 

 (Red-throated loon) 



Family Aiddae 

 Auks, Guillemots etc. 

 Fratercula arctica (Linnaeus) 

 (Puffin) 

 Cepphus grylle (Linnaeus) 

 (Black guillemot) 

 Cepphus mandti (Lichenstein) 

 (Mandt guillemot) 

 Uria troile (Linnaeus) 



(Murre) 

 Uria lomvia (Linnaeus) 

 (Briinnich murre) 

 Alca torda Linnaeus 

 (Razor-billed auk) 

 Alle alle (Linnaeus) 

 (Dovckic) 



Order Longipennes 



Family Stercorariidae 



Skuas and jaegers 

 Megalestris skua (Briinnich) 

 (Skua) 



Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck) 



(Pomarine jaeger) 

 Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus) 

 (Parasitic jaeger) 

 Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot 

 (Long-tailed jaeger) 



Family Laridae 



Gulls and terns 

 Pagophila alba (Gunnerus) 



(Ivory gull) 

 Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus) 



(Kittiwake) 

 Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus 

 (Glaucous gull) 

 Larus leucopterus Faber 



(Iceland gull) 

 Larus kiimlieni Brewster 



(Kilmlien gull) 

 Larus marinus Linnaeus 

 (Great black-backed gull) 

 Larus argentatus Pontoppidan 

 (Herring gull) 

 Larus delawarensis Ord 



(Ring-billed gull) 

 Larus atricilla Linnaeus 



(Laughing gull) 

 Larus Philadelphia (Ord) 

 (Bonaparte gull) 

 Larus minutus Pallas 



(Little gull) 

 Xema sabini (Sabine) 

 (Sabine gull) 

 Gelochelidon nilotica (Hassclquist) 

 (Gull-billed tern) 

 Sterna caspia Pallas 

 (Caspian tern) 

 Sterna maxima Boddaert 

 (Royal tern) 

 Sterna sandvicensis acuflavida 

 (Cabot) 



(Cabot tern) 

 Sterna trudeaui Audubon 

 (Trudeau tern) 



