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Bird Guide

CLASSIFIED TABLE OF EASTERN LAND BIRDS Showing Divisions into Orders, Families and Genera, as Adopted by the American Ornithologists’ Union.

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ORDER PSITTACI. Parrots, Macaws, etc. Family PSITTACIDÆ. Genus CONUROPSIS Carolina Paroquet ORDER COCCYGES. Cuckoos, Kingfishers, etc. Family CUCULIDÆ. Genus CROTOPHAGA Anis GEOCOCCYX Road-runner COCCYZUS Cuckoos Family ALCEDINIDÆ. Genus CERYLE Kingfishers ORDER PICI. Woodpeckers. Family PICIDÆ. Genus CAMPEPHILUS Ivory-billed Woodpecker DRYOBATES Hairy to Texan Woodpecker PICOIDES Three-toed Woodpeckers SPHYRAPICUS Sapsuckers PHILŒOTOMUS Pileated Woodpeckers MELANERPES Red-headed Woodpeckers [215] CENTURUS Red-bellied Woodpeckers COLAPTES Flickers ORDER MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hummingbirds, etc. Family CAPRIMULGIDÆ. Genus ANTROSTOMUS Whip-poor-will PHALÆNOPTILUS Poorwill NYCTIDROMUS Paraque CHORDEILES Nighthawks Family MICROPODIDÆ. Genus CHÆTURA Chimney Swift ÆRONAUTES White-throated Swift Family TROCHILIDÆ. Genus TROCHILUS Ruby-thr. Hummer ORDER PASSERES. Perching Birds. Family TYRANNIDÆ. Genus MUSCIVORA Scissor-tailed Flycatcher TYRANNUS Kingbirds PITANGUS Derby Flycatchers MYIARCHUS Crested Flycatchers SAYORNIS Phoebes [216] NUTTALLORNIS Olive-sided Flycatchers MYIOCHANES Pewees EMPIDONAX Least Flycatchers PYROCEPHALUS Vermilion Flycatchers Family ALAUDIDÆ. Genus OTOCORIS Horned Larks Family CORVIDÆ. Genus PICA Magpie CYANOCITTA Blue Jays APHLECOMA Non-crested Jays XANTHOURA Green Jay PERISOREUS Canada Jay CORVUS Crows and Ravens NUCIFRAGA Clarke Nutcracker Family STURNIDÆ. Genus STURNUS Starling Family ICTERIDÆ. Genus DOLICHONYX Bobolink MOLOTHRUS Cowbirds XANTHOCEPHALUS Yellow-headed Blackbird AGELAIUS Red-winged Blackbirds [217] STURNELLA Meadowlarks ICTERUS Orioles SCOLECOPHAGUS Rusty Blackbirds QUISCALUS Grackles Family FRINGILLIDÆ. Genus HESPERIPHONA Evening Grosbeak PINICOLA Pine Grosbeaks CARPODACUS Purple Finches LOXIA Crossbills LEUCOSTICTE Leucostictes ACANTHIS Redpolls ASTRAGALINUS Goldfinches SPINUS Pine Siskin PLECTROPHENAX Snowflakes CALCARIUS Longspurs RHYNCOPHANES McCown Longspurs POŒCETES Vesper Sparrow PASSER English Sparrow PASSERCULUS Ipswich Sparrow COTURNICULUS Grasshopper, Leconte AMMODRAMUS Sharp-tail, Seaside [218] CHONDESTES Lark Sparrow ZONOTRICHIA Harris and White-Crowned Sparrow SPIZELLA Chippy, Tree, Field JUNCO Juncos AMPHISPIZA Black-throated, Bell PEUCÆA Pine-woods Sparrow MELOSPIZA Song, Swamp Sparrow PASSERELLA Fox Sparrow PIPILO Towhees OREOSPIZA Green-tailed Towhee CARDINALIS Cardinal PYRRHULOXIA Pyrrhuloxia ZAMELODIA Rose-breasted Grosbeak GUIRACA Blue Grosbeak PASSERINA Buntings SPOROPHILA Seed-eater SPIZA Dickcissel CALAMOSPIZA Lark Bunting Family TANAGRIDÆ. Genus PIRANGA Tanagers [219] Family HIRUNDINIDÆ. Genus PROGNE Purple Martin PETROCHELIDON Cliff Swallow HIRUNDO Barn Swallow IRIDOPROCNE Tree Swallow RIPARIA Bank Swallow STELGIDOPTERYX Rough-winged Swallow Family BOMBYCILLIDÆ. Genus BOMBYCILLA Waxwings Family LANIIDÆ. Genus LANIUS Shrikes Family VIREONIDÆ. Genus VIREOSYLYA Red-eye., Warbling Vireo LANIVIREO Yell.-thr., Blue-head VIREO White-eyed Vireo Family MNIOTILTIDÆ. Genus MNIOTILTA Black and White Warbler PROTONOTARIA Prothonotary HELINAIA Swainson Warbler HELMITHEROS Worm-eating Warbler [220] HELMINTHOPHILA Bachman to Tennessee COMPSOTHLYPIS Parula Warbler DENDROICA Cape May to Palm Warbler SEIURUS Oven-bird, Water-Thrush OPORORNIS Ky., Conn., and Mourning GEOTHLYPIS Yellow-throats ICTERIA Chat WILSONIA Hooded to Canadian SETOPHAGA Redstarts Family MOTACILLIDÆ. Genus ANTHUS Pipits Family TROGLODYTIDÆ. Genus OROSCOPTES Sage Thrasher MIMUS Mockingbird DUMATELLA Catbird TOXOSTOMA Thrashers HELEODYTES Cactus Wren SALPINCTES Rock Wren THRYOTHORUS Carolina Wren THRYOMANES Bewick Wren TROGLODYTES House Wren [221] NANNUS Winter Wren CISTOTHORUS Short-billed Marsh Wren TELMATODYTES Long-billed Marsh Wren Family CERTHIDÆ. Genus CERTHIA Brown Creeper Family PARIDÆ. Genus SITTA Nuthatches BÆOLOPHUS Titmice PENTHESTES Chickadees AURIPARUS Verdin Family SYLLVIIDÆ. Genus REGULUS Kinglets POLIOPTILA Gnatcatchers Family TURDIDÆ. Genus HYLOCICHLA Thrushes PLANESTICUS Robins SAXICOLA Wheatear SIALIA Bluebird

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