The Geese (Anseres):—The Spur-winged Goose—The Grey, or Wild Goose—The Canada Goose—The Snow
Goose. The >Sea Geese (Bernicla):—The Brent Goose. The Foxy Geese (Chenalopex):—The Nile
Goose. The Dwarf Geese (Nettapus):—The White-bodied Goose Teal—The Cereopsis Goose 129-143

The Ducks (Anates):—The Ruddy Sheldrake, or Brahminy Duck. The Sheldrakes (Vulpanser):—The
Common Sheldrake. The Tree Ducks (Dendrocygna):—The Widow Duck—The Wild Duck—The
Wood or Summer Duck—The Chinese Teal, or Mandarin Duck—The Shoveler Duck—The Musk Duck.
The Diving Ducks (Fuligulæ). The Eider Ducks (Somateria):—The True Eider Duck, or St.
Cuthbert's Duck—The King Eider. The Western or Steller's Eider Duck (Somateria or Heniconetta
Stellerii). The Scoters (Oidemia):—The Velvet Scoter. The Fen Ducks (Aythya):—The Red-headed
Duck, Dunbird, or Pochard. The Pin-tailed Ducks (Erismatura):—The White-headed Pin-tailed
Duck 143-170

The Mergansers, or Goosanders (Mergi):—The White-headed Goosander—The Green-headed Goosander 170-174


THE SEA-FLIERS (Longipennes).

The Terns, or Sea Swallows (Sternæ). The Rapacious Terns (Sylochelidon):—The Caspian Tern.
The River Terns (Sterna):—The Common Tern—The Lesser Tern. The Water Swallows
(Hydrochelidon):—The Black Marsh Tern—The White-winged Tern—The White bearded Tern—The
White or Silky Tern—The Noddy 175-185

The Scissor-bills (Rhynchopes):—The Indian Scissor-bill 185, 186

The Gulls (Lari):—The Fishing Gulls—The Great Black-backed Gulls—The Lesser Black-backed or Yellow-legged
Gull—The Herring Gull—The Large or Glaucous White-winged Gull—The Lesser White-winged
Gull. The Ice Gulls (Pagophila):—The Ivory Gull 186-194

The Kittiwakes (Rissa). The Black-headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus):—The Laughing Gull—The Great
Black-headed Gull—The Lesser Black-headed Gull—The Little Gull 194-198

The Skuas (Lestres):—The Common Skua—Buffon's or the Parasite Skua—Ross's Rosy Gull 198-203

The Petrels, or Storm Birds (Procellaridæ).—The Albatrosses (Diomedæ):—The Wandering Albatross—The
Yellow-billed Albatross—The Sooty Albatross. The True Petrels (Procellariæ):—The Giant
Petrel—The Fulmar Petrel—The Cape Petrel—The Broad-billed Prion, or Duck Petrel. The Storm
Petrels (Oceanides):—The Common Storm Petrel—Leach's Storm Petrel 203-217

The Puffins (Puffini):—The Manx Puffin, or Shearwater 217, 218