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LIST OF BIRDS TREATED BY FAMILIES-Continued. 
Order Passeres : Perching Birds. 
Family Corvidae : Crows, Jays, Mag- 
pies 
Blue Jay 
American Crow 
Sub-Order Clamatores : Songless Perch- 
ing Birds 
Family Tyrannidae ; Tyrant Flycatch- 
ers 
Kingbird 
Great Crested Fylcatcher 
Phoebe 
Wood Pewee 
Least Flycatcher 
Order Macrochires : Swifts, Whip-poor- 
wills, etc. 
Family Caprinsulgidae : Goatsuckers 
Whip-poor-will 
Night Hawk 
Family Micropodidae : Swifts 
Chimney Swift 
Family Trochicidae : Humming-birds 
Ruby-throated Humming-bird 
Order Pici : Woodpeckers 
Family Picidae : Woodpeckers 
Hairy Woodpecker 
Downy Woodpecker 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Red-headed Woodpecker 
Flicker 
Order Coccyges ; Cuckoos, Kingfishers, etc. 
Family Cuculidae : Cuckoos 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
Black-billed Cuckoo 
Family Acedinidae : Kingfishers 
Belted Kingfisher 
Order Raptores : Birds of Prey 
Family Strigidae : Barn Owls 
American Barn Owl 
Family Burdonidae : Homed Owls 
Screech Owl 
Great Horned Owl : Hoot Owl 
Family Falconidae ; Falcons, Hawks, 
Eagles 
Marsh Hawk 
Sharp-shinned Hawk 
Cooper’s Hawk: Chicken Hawk 
Red-tailed Hawk 
Order Raporte: Birds of Prey. 
Family Falconidae: 
Red Shouldered Hawk 
Sparrow Hawk 
American Osprey: Fish Hawk 
Bald Eagle 
Family Vultures 
Turkey Vulture 
Order Columbae : Pigeons 
Family Columbidae : Doves and Pig- 
eons 
Passenger Pigeon 
Mourning Dove 
Order Gallinae : Gallinaceous Birds 
Family Tetraonidae : Grouse, Part- 
ridges, etc. 
Bob-white : Quail 
Ruffed Grouse 
Prairie Hen 
Order Limicolae : Shore Birds 
Family Charadriidae : Plovers 
Kill-deer Plover 
Family Scolopacidae : Snipes, Sand- 
pipers, etc. 
American Woodcock 
Spotted Sandpiper 
Order Paludicolae : Cranes, Rails, etc. 
Family Rallidae : Rails, Gallinules, 
Coots 
American Coot : Mud Hen 
Order Herodiones: Herons, etc. 
Family Ardeidae : Herons, Bitterns, 
etc. 
American Bittern 
Least Bittern 
Great Blue Heron 
Green Heron 
Little Blue Heron 
Black-Crowned Night Heron 
Order Anseres : Lamellirostral Swimmers 
Family Anitidae : Ducks, Geese, etc. 
Mallard 
Green-winged Teal 
Blue Winged Teal 
Wood Duck 
Order Pygopodes : Diving Birds 
Family Podicipidae : Grebes 
Pied-Billed Grebe : Hell-diver 
