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INTRODUCTION 



Ind. Orn, 



Syn, of Birds. 



67 Cancroma 



BoatbiU 



68 Scopus 



Umbre 



69 Ardea 



Heron 



70 Tantalus 



Ibis 



71 Numenius 



Curlew 



72 Scolopax 



Snipe 



73 Tringa 



Sandpiper 



74 Charadrius 



Plover 



75 Cursorius 





76 Hamatopus 



Oyster-catcher 



77 Glareola 



Pratincole 



78 7?0//w^ 



Rail 



79 Parra 



Jacana 



80 Gallinula 



Gallinule 



81 Vaginalis 



Sheath-bill 



Or DO VIII. 



PINNATIPEDES. 



82 Phalaropus 



83 i^w/?Va 



84 Podiceps 



Order VIII. 

 With PINNATED-FEET. 



Phalarope 



Coot 



Grebe 



Ind. Orn, 





Ordo IX. 



Order IX. 



PALMIPEDES. 



WEB-FOOTED. 



* Pedihus longiorihus 



* With long legs. 



85 Recurvirostra 



Avocet 



86 Corrira 



Courier 



87 Phcenicopterus 



Flamingo 



tt Pedihus brevioribus ft With short legs. 



88 Diomedea 



Albatross 



89 ./^/m 



Auk 



90 f/ria 



Guillemot 



91 Colymbus 



Diver 



92 Rynchops 



Skimmer 



93 /S'^^mo; 



Tern 



94 Larus 



Gull 



95 Procellaria 



Petrel 



96 Mergus 



Merganser 



97 ./^72iZ^ 



Duck 



98 Aptenodytes 



Penguin 



99 Pelicanus 



Pelican 



100 Phaeton 



Tropic Bird 



101 P/o?w5 



Darter 



It may probably be expected, that in a publication of this kind, 

 we should commence with the order Accipitres, and proceed, re- 

 gularly, through the different Orders and Genera, according to the 

 particular system adopted. This, however desirable, is in the pre- 

 sent case altogether impracticable; unless, indeed, we possessed 

 living specimens, or drawings, of every particular species to be 

 described; an acquisition which no private individual, or public 

 Museum in the world, can, as yet, boast of. This work is not in- 

 tended to be a mere compilation from books, with figures taken 

 from stuffed and dried birds, which would be but a sorry compli- 

 ment to the science ; but a transcript from living Nature, embracing 

 the whole Ornithology of the United States ; and as it is highly pro- 

 bable that numerous species, at present entirely unknown, would 

 come into our possession long after that part of the work appro- 

 priated for the particular genera to which they belonged had been 

 finished, and thereby interrupt, in spite of every exertion, the re- 

 gularity of the above arrangement, or oblige us to omit them alto- 



