CONTENTS 
—Three-Toed Lapwings (Hoplopterus )— Wattled Lapwings (Lobivanellus) -—Stilts 
(. Himantopus ) — Avocets ( Recurvirostra) — Oyster-Catchers ( Hcematopus )—-Curlews 
and Whimbrels ( Numenius) — Phalaropes ( Phalaropus ) — Hard-Billed Sandpipers 
and Ruffs {Tot anus) — God wits ( Limosa) — Snipe-Beaked Sandpipers (Ereunetes) 
—Turnstones ( Strepsilas )—Cleft-Footed Sandpipers ( Tringa )—Sanderling ( Galidris) 
—Painted Snipe (Rhynchcea )—-Woodcock and Snipe ( Scolopax )—Jacanas and 
Water - Pheasants (Family Parridce ) — Sheath-Bills (Family Chionididce) — Seed- 
Snipe (Family Thinocoridce) — The Gull Tribe (Order Gavice) —Terns, Skimmers, 
and Gulls (Family Laridce )—Terns (Hydrochelidon and Sterna )—Noddies (Anous )— 
Skimmers (Rliynchops) — Fork-Tailed Gulls (Xema) — Ross’s Gull ( Rhodostethia )— 
Typical Gulls (Earns )—Kittiwakes ( Rissa )—Ivory Gull ( Pagophila )—The Skuas 
(Family Stercorariidce), ......... 
CHAPTER XX.—The Tube-Nosed Birds, Diving Birds, and Penguins,— 
Orders Tubinares, Pygopodes, and Impennes. 
Characteristics of the Tube-Nosed Birds — The Albatrosses (Family Diomedeidce) — The 
Petrels (Family Procellariidce )—Giant Petrel ( Ossifraga )—Fulmar Petrel (Fulmarus) 
—Allied Genera— Shearwaters ( Puffinus) — Capped Petrel and Bulwer’s Petrel 
(CEstrelata and Bulweria )—Cape Petrel ( Daption )—Dove-Petrels (Prion) —Storm- 
Petrels ( Procellaria )—Allied Petrels—Wilson’s Petrel ( Oceanites )—The Diving Petrel 
(Pelecanoides) — The Diving Birds (Order Pygopodes )—The Auks (Family Alcidce) 
—True Auks ( Alca) — Great Auk—Razorbill — Guillemots ( Uria) — Short-Billed 
Guillemots ( Brachyrliamphus) — Little Auk ( Mergulus )—Pacific Pigmy Auks ( Simo- 
rhynchus, etc.)—Puffins ( Fratercula )—The Divers (Family Colymbidce )—The Grebes 
(Family Podicipedidce )—Typical Grebes ( Podicipes) — Thick-Billed Grebes ( Pod - 
ilymbus )—The Penguins (Order Impennes )—The Genera and Habits of the Spjheniscidce, 
CHAPTER XXL—The Tinamus, Flightless Birds, Etc,—G roups Cryptv.ri , 
Stereornithes, Ratitce, Odontornithes, and Sanrurce. 
Characters and Genera of the Tinamus (Order Crypturi, Family Tinarnidce) — Extinct 
Patagonian Flightless Birds (Group Stereornithes)— The Flightless or Ostrich-Like 
Birds (Subclass Ratitce) — The Ostriches (Family Struthionidce )—Their Distribution 
and Habits—Capture and Domestication—The Rheas or American Ostriches (Family 
Rheidce )—The Cassowaries and Emeus (Family Casuariidce )—Cassowaries (Casuarius) 
Emeus (Dromceus) — Allied Extinct Birds — The Kiwis (Family Apterygidee )— 
The Extinct Moas (Family Dinornithidee) — The JEpyornithidce Toothed-Birds 
(Group Odontornithes) —Lizard-Tailed Birds (Subclass Saururcr, Genus Archaeopteryx ), . 
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