Geographic Order for Bird Skins
Arrangement of continents and foreign countries of the world
A. North America (United States, Canada, Mexico) B. Latin America C. Atlantic Islands D. Europe and the Middle East E. Africa F. Islands and Countries in the Indian Ocean G. Asian Mainland H. East Asian Islands and Australasia I. Pacific Islands and Antarctica
A. North America: Arrangement of states or provinces/territories in the United States, Canada, and Mexico
Arctic Ocean Greenland Labrador Newfoundland New Brunswick Nova Scotia Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut Quebec New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware Maryland District of Columbia Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Nunavut Manitoba Ontario Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Kentucky Tennessee
Missouri Arkansas Alabama Mississippi Louisiana North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma Texas Northwest Territories Saskatchewan Alberta Montana* Idaho* Wyoming* Utah* Colorado* Alaska Yukon British Columbia Washington* Oregon* California* Baja California Nevada* Arizona* New Mexico* Mexico*
* Separate lists are provided on the following pages for designated counties within these states or provinces and for states within Mexico.
CALIFORNIA COUNTIES: Del Norte Humboldt Siskiyou Shasta Trinity Mendocino Lake Sonoma Napa Marin Modoc Lassen Plumas Sierra Nevada Placer El Dorado Amador Alpine Calaveras Tuolumne Mariposa Tehama Glenn Butte Colusa Sutter Yuba Yolo Solano Sacramento San Joaquin Stanislaus Merced Madera Fresno Tulare Kings Kern San Francisco
San Mateo Contra Costa Alameda Santa Clara Santa Cruz San Benito Monterey San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara San Miguel Island Santa Rosa Island Santa Cruz Island Ventura San Nicolas Island Los Angeles Santa Barbara Island Santa Catalina Island San Clemente Island Orange Mono Inyo San Bernardino Riverside San Diego Imperial
COLORADO COUNTIES: Moffat Routt Rio Blanco Garfield Mesa Delta Montrose Ouray San Miguel Dolores San Juan Montezuma La Plata North Jackson Grand Eagle Summit Lake Pitkin Gunnison Chaffee Saguache Hinsdale Mineral Archuleta Rio Grande Alamosa Conejos Larimer Boulder Gilpin Jefferson Clear Creek Park Fremont Custer Huerfano Costilla Weld Morgan Adams Denver Arapahoe Douglas
Elbert Teller El Paso Pueblo Las Animas Logan Washington Lincoln Crowley Otero Sedgwick Phillips Yuma Kit Carson Cheyenne Kiowa Bent Prowers Baca
IDAHO COUNTIES: Boundary Bonner Kootenai Shoshone Benewah Latah Clearwater Nez Perce Lewis Idaho Adams Valley Washington Payette Gem Boise Canyon Ada Elmore Owyhee Lemhi Custer Blaine Camas Gooding Lincoln Jerome Minidoka Twin Falls Cassia Clark Fremont Butte Jefferson Madison Teton Bonneville Bingham Power Bannock Caribou Oneida Franklin Bear Lake
MONTANA COUNTIES: Lincoln Sanders Flathead Lake Glacier Pondera Teton Toole Liberty Hill Chouteau Blaine Phillips Valley Daniel Sheridan Roosevelt Mineral Missoula Ravalli Granite Powell Lewis and Clark Cascade Judith Basin Meagher Wheatland Fergus Petroleum Golden Valley Musselshell Garfield McCone Richland Prairie Dawson Wibaux Deer Lodge Silver Bow Jefferson Broadwater Beaverhead Madison Gallatin
Park Sweet Grass Stillwater Carbon Yellowstone Big Horn Treasure Rosebud Custer Fallon Powder River Carter
NEVADA COUNTIES: Washoe Storey Carson City (including former Ormsby County) Douglas Lyon Humboldt Elko Pershing Churchill Lander Eureka White Pine Mineral Esmeralda Nye Lincoln Clark
NEW MEXICO COUNTIES: San Juan Rio Arriba Taos Colfax Mora Union McKinley Sandoval Santa Fe San Miguel Harding Valencia Bernalillo Torrance Guadalupe Quay Curry Roosevelt Catron Socorro Lincoln Chaves Grant Sierra Hidalgo Luna Dona Ana Otero Eddy Lea
OREGON COUNTIES: Clatsop Columbia Tillamook Washington Multnomah (Portland) Yamhill Clackamas Hood River Wasco Sherman Gilliam Morrow Umatilla Union Wallowa Lincoln Polk Marion (Salem) Benton (Corvallis) Linn Jefferson Wheeler Grant Baker Lane (Eugene) Deschutes Crook Douglas Coos Curry Josephine Jackson Klamath Lake Harney Malheur
UTAH COUNTIES: Box Elder Cache Weber Rich Tooele Davis Salt Lake Utah Morgan Summit Wasatch Duchesne Daggett Uintah Juab Millard Sanpete Servier Carbon Emery Grand Beaver Iron Washington Piute Wayne Garfield Kane San Juan
WASHINGTON COUNTIES: San Juan Whatcom Skagit Okanogan Ferry Stevens Pend Oreille Clallam Jefferson Island Kitsap Snohomish King (Seattle) Chelan Douglas Lincoln Spokane Grays Harbor Mason Thurston Pierce Kittitas Grant Adams Whitman Pacific Lewis Wahkiakum Cowlitz Clark Skamania Yakima Klickitat Benton Franklin Walla Walla Columbia Garfield Asotin
WYOMING COUNTIES: Yellowstone National Park Park Hot Springs Big Horn Washakie Sheridan Johnson Campbell Crook Weston Teton Sublette Fremont Natrona Converse Niobrara Lincoln Uinta Sweetwater Carbon Albany Platte Goshen Laramie
MEXICAN STATES: Sonora Chihuahua Coahuila Sinaloa Durango Nayarit Zacatecas Aguascalientes Jalisco Colima Michoacan Nuevo Leon Tamaulipas San Luis Potosi Guanajuato Queretaro Hidalgo Ciudad de México/Mexico City (= Distrito Federal) Morelos Tlaxcala Puebla Veracruz Guerrero Oaxaca Chiapas Tabasco Campeche Yucatan Quintana Roo
B. Latin America: Arrangement of countries within Latin America
Belize (= British Honduras) Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Isla del Coco/Cocos Island Panama Colombia* Ecuador Galapagos Islands* Peru Chile Juan Fernandez Archipelago Bahamas Cuba Cayman Islands Jamaica Haiti Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Lesser Antilles U.S. Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands Anguilla Saint Martin St. Barthelemy Barbuda Saba Sint Eustatius St. Kitts Nevis Antigua Montserrat Guadeloupe Marie Galante Dominica Martinique
St. Lucia St. Vincent The Grenadines Grenada Barbados Aruba Curacao Bonaire Trinidad and Tobago Tobago Trinidad Venezuela Guyana (= British Guiana) Surinam (= Dutch Guiana) French Guiana Brazil Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay Argentina
* Separate lists follow for departments or provinces within designated countries.
COLOMBIAN DEPARTMENTS: Guajira (Lagoajira) Magdalena Atlantico Bolivar Cordoba Antioquia Choco Caldas Tolima Valle del Cauca Huila Cauca Narino Santander del Norte Santander Boyaca Arauca Cundinamarca Meta Vichada Guainia Vaupes Caqueta Putumayo Amazonas
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: Darwin (Culpepper) Wolf (Wenman) Pinta (Louis, = Abingdon) Marchena (Bindloe) Genovesa (Tower) Fernandina (Narborough) Isabela (Albemarle) Santiago (James, San Salvador) Rabida (Jervis) Pinzon (Duncan) North Seymour Baltra (South Seymour) Santa Cruz (Indefatigable) Santa Fe (Barrington) San Cristobal (Chatham) Floreana (Charles, Santa Maria) islets off Floreana Española (Hood) islets off Española
C. Atlantic Islands:
Bermuda North Atlantic Ocean Azores Madeira Canary Islands Cape Verde Islands Fernando de Noronha Ascension St. Helena Trinidade Tristan da Cunha South Atlantic Ocean Falkland Islands South Georgia South Sandwich Islands South Orkney Islands South Shetland Islands
D. Europe and the Middle East:
Iceland Faroe Islands United Kingdom Northern Ireland Ireland Scotland England Wales Netherlands (“Holland”) Belgium Luxembourg France Corsica Spain Balearic Islands Gibraltar (United Kingdom) Portugal Spitsbergen Island (Norway) Norway Sweden Denmark Germany Austria Liechtenstein Switzerland Italy Sardinia Sicily Malta Finland Poland Czech Republic/Czechia (= Czechoslovakia) Slovakia (= Czechoslovakia) Hungary Romania Slovenia (= Yugoslavia) Croatia (= Yugoslavia) Bosnia and Herzegovina (= Yugoslavia) Serbia (= Yugoslavia) Montenegro (= Yugoslavia)
Bulgaria Albania North Macedonia (= Yugoslavia) Greece Turkey European continent Asian continent Cyprus Syria Lebanon Israel Jordan Iraq Iran Kuwait Saudi Arabia Bahrain Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman Yemen (= Aden)
E. Africa:
Egypt Libya Tunisia Algeria Morocco Western Sahara Mauritania Mali (= French Sudan) Burkina Faso (= Upper Volta) Niger Chad Sudan Eritrea Senegal Republic of the Gambia Guinea-Bissau (= Portuguese Guinea) Guinea (= French Guinea) Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire Ghana (= Gold Coast) Togo Benin (= Dahomey) Nigeria Cameroon Central African Republic (= Ubangi-Shari) South Sudan Equatorial Guinea (= Spanish Guinea) Gabon Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo (= Zaire, = Belgian Congo) Cabinda Province Angola Namibia (= Southwest Africa) Eritrea Ethiopia (= Abyssinia) Djibouti (= French Somaliland) Somalia Kenya
Uganda Rwanda Burundi Tanzania Malawi (= Nyasaland) Zambia (= Northern Rhodesia) Mozambique (= Portuguese East Africa) Zimbabwe (= Southern Rhodesia) Botswana (= Bechuanaland) Eswatini (= Swaziland) Lesotho (= Basutoland) Republic of South Africa
F. Islands and Countries in the Indian Ocean
Seychelles Comoro Islands Madagascar (= Malagasy Republic) Mascarene Islands Reunion Mauritius Rodrigues Indian Ocean
G. Countries on the Asian Mainland: Excluding the Middle East but including Chinese islands
Russia (= USSR) Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarus Ukraine Moldova (= Moldavian SSR) Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Afghanistan Pakistan Nepal Bhutan India Bangladesh (= East Pakistan) Sri Lanka (= Ceylon) Mongolia China North Korea South Korea * Japan * Tibet Hong Kong Taiwan Myanmar (Burma) Laos Vietnam Cambodia (= Khmer Republic, = Kampuchea) Thailand (= Siam) Malaysia (peninsula) Peninsular Malaysia (= West Malaysia, = Malaya) Singapore
South Korea: Gangwon-do, Gangwon Province (Kangwon-do) Annin-jin, Kangdong-myon Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Province (Kyonggi-do) Unchon-ri, Unchon Village (Unchon-ni) Munsan-ri, Munsan Village (Munsan-ni) Paju-gun, Paju Count Uijeongbu Kwangnung (tombs) Kwangnaru Paju-gun, 20 mi. NNW Su-sam-nung ± 12 mi. NNW Seoul (= Gyeongseong) Namsan (Nam-san) Yongsan District (Yongsan-gu) Sobbingo Yeongdeungpo District (Yongdong-po) (other Han River) [markets] Jamsil-dong, Jamsil Neighborhood (Cham-shil) Gimpo (Kimpo) Incheon (Inchon) Bucheon, Sosa pu-ri Anyang Suwon Yeoju (Yoju) Anseong (Ansong) Chungcheongnam-do, South Chungcheong Province Chungcheongbuk-do, North Chungcheong Province (Chungchong-pukto) Gyeongsangbuk-do, North Gyeongsang Province (Kyongsang-pukto) Daegu (= Taegu) Gyeongju (Kyongju, = Seorabeol) Jeollabuk-do, North Jeolla Province (Cholla-pukto) Gyeongsangnam-do, Gyeongsangnam Province (Kyongsang-namdo, Gyeongsang) Sancheong-gun, Sancheong County (Sanchong) Deoksan (Toksan) Gupo (Kupo) Busan (Pusan) Chinhae (Jinhae?) Geojedo, Geoje Island (Koje-do) Jeollanam-do, Jeollanam Province (Cholla-namdo) Jeju Island (Jeju-do, Cheju-do, = Quelpart Island)
Japan: Hokkaido Honshu Aomori Akita Iwate Yamagata Miyagi Fukushima Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Nagano Gunma Tochigi Ibaraki Saitama Tokyo Yamanashi Kanagawa Chiba Aichi Shizuoka Izu Islands Kyoto Shiga Osaka Mie (Miye) Nara Wakayama Tottori Hyogo (Kobe) Okayama Shimane Hiroshima Yamaguchi Shikoku Kyushu Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa, etc.)
H. East Asian Islands and Australasia:
Philippines Luzon Baguio Zambales Rizal Cavite Laguna Tagaytay Occidental Mindoro Oriental Mindoro Samar Leyte Panay Negros Occidental Negros Oriental Cebu Bohol Mindanao Calamian Islands Palawan Malaysia (island) Sabah Sarawak East Malaysia Brunei Indonesia (= Dutch East Indies) Borneo Sulawesi (= Celebes) Maluku Islands, Moluccas Sumatra Java Bali Lombok Sumbawa Sumba Flores Timor Aru Islands Western New Guinea (= Netherlands New Guinea, = West New Guinea, = Irian Jaya)
Papua New Guinea Bismarck Archipelago Admiralty Islands St. Matthias Island Mussau Emirau, Emira New Hanover, Lavongai New Ireland New Britain, Niu Briten North Solomon Islands Bougainville Island Solomon Islands Choiseul Island, Lauru New Georgia Islands Santa Isabel Russell Malaita Nggela, Florida Guadalcanal Makira (= San Cristobal) Rennell, Mugaba Vanuatu (= New Hebrides) Banks Island (incl. Vanua Lava) Espiritu Santo Island Malo Island (= St. Bartholomew) Malakula Island (Malekula) remainder of archipelago, North to South Loyalty Islands New Caledonia Australia Western Australia Northern Territory Queensland South Australia New South Wales Australian Capital Territory Victoria Tasmania New Zealand North Island South Island
I. Pacific Islands and Antarctic Localities:
Bonin Islands, Ogasawara Islands Volcano Islands, Iwo Islands Mariana Islands Saipan Tinian Guam Caroline Islands Palau Yap, Wa′ab Chuuk Lagoon (= Truk) Pohnpei (= Ponape, = Ascension) Wake Island, Wake Atoll Marshall Islands Gilbert Islands (= Kingsmill Island) Nauru Island (= Pleasant Island) Tuvalu (= Ellice Island) Fiji Vanua Levu (= Sandalwood) Taveuni Viti Levu Kadavu Lau Islands, Eastern Group Tonga Phoenix Islands, Rawaki Tokelau Islands, Union Islands Samoa (= Western Samoa) Savai’i, Savaii Upolu American Samoa Tutuila Manu’a, Manua Cook Islands Hawaii Kure Atoll Midway Atoll Pearl Atoll Hermes Atoll Lisianski Island Laysan Island Gardner Pinnacles
La Perouse Pinnacle Necker Island Nihoa Ka’ula, Kaula Niihau Kauai Oahu Waialua Waianae ‘Ewa Koolauloa Koolaupoko Honolulu Molokai Lanai Maui Lahaina Wailuku Makawao Hana Kahoolawe Hawaii (Big Island) North Kohala South Kohala North Kona South Kona Hamakua North Hilo South Hilo Kau Puna Johnson Island Line, Teraina Islands, or Equatorial Islands Marquesas Islands Society Islands (Tahiti, etc.) Tuamotu Islands Pitcairn Islands Easter Island, Rapa Nui open Pacific Ocean Antarctic Ocean Antarctica