Chapter III
- COLLECTING BIRDS, THEIR NESTS, AND EGGS Collecting Birds Making Birdskins.
Sexing Birds • Cataloguing and Labeling Care of a Collection • Collecting and Preserving Nests and Eggs PLAN OF THE WORK.
Nomenclature adopted Definition of Terms The Key to Families The Keys to Species Measurements Range Biographies Illustrations Color Chart • .
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS • .
CONTENTS.
THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA EAST OF THE NINE- TIETH MERIDIAN KEY TO ORDERS AND FAMILIES I. ORDER PYGOPODES: Diving Birds 1. Family Podicipidæ : Grebes 2. Family Urinatoride: Loons PAGE 41 41 56 56 . 58 60 • 65 65 67 85 86 86 86 91 91 • 92 93 94 95 97 97 97 3. Family Alcide: Auks, Murres, and Puffins II. ORDER LONGIPENNES: LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS 4. Family Stercorariidæ : Skuas and Jaegers 5. Family Laridæ : Gulls and Terns 6. Rynchopidæ: Skimmers III. ORDER TUBINARES: TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS 7. Family Diomedeide: Albatrosses 8. Procellariidæ: Petrels, Fulmars, and Shearwaters IV. ORDER STEGANOPODES: TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS 9. Family Phaëthontidæ: Tropic Birds. 10. Family Sulidæ: Gannets 11. Family Anhingidæ: Darters 12. Family Phalacrocoracide: Cormorants 13. Family Pelecanide: Pelicans 14. Family Fregatidæ: Man-o'-War Birds V. ORDER ANSERES: LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS 15. Family Anatidæ: Ducks, Geese, and Swans • VI. ORDER ODONTOGLOSSE: LAMELLIROSTRAL GRALLATORES. 125 16. Family Phoenicopteride: Flamingoes • VII. ORDER HERODIONES: HERONS, STORKS, IBISES, ETC. 17. Family Plataleide: Spoonbills. 18. Family Ibididæ: Ibises 19. Family Ciconiide: Storks and Wood Ibises 20. Family Ardeide: Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns