PART II. Other Wanderings South 



VI. Scavengers of the South 103 



VII. Virginia Bird-Homes of Beach and Marsh 116 



VIII. The Egret, in Nature and in Fashion 134 



PART III. The Sea! The Sea! 



IX. To Bird Rock in an Open Boat 153 



X. Amid Northern Spruces and Sea-Girt Rocks 171 



XI. Off Chatham Bars 187 



PART IW The Elusive Shore-Birds 



XII. The Shore Patrol 203 



XIII. Northward with the Shore-Bird Host 223 



XIV. Shore-Bird Loiterers 239 



PART V. Raptors and Forest P^astxesses 



XV. The New Sport of " Hawking " 259 



XVI. Owl Secrets 291 



XVII. Adventures with Great Horned Owls 313 



Index 337 



