xviii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Half-Title, Part I — Noddies. " Mates caressing " xxvii 



Part of the Pelican city, as seen from the boat i 

 Brown Pelicans. " It was not until we sprang out upon the shore 



that there was any considerable flight '' 5 

 Newly hatched young Pelicans 6 

 The young Pelicans improve with age 7 

 Brown Pelicans. " They made me think of gangs of boys " 8 

 The Brown Pelicans on their nests 11 

 Young Pelicans, almost ready to fiy 13 

 Adult and young Pelicans on nests in mangrove bushes 15 

 A typical Pelican's nest 17 

 Brown Pelicans on their nests, at close range 18 

 Man-o'-War Birds. '' Now they began to rise " 19 

 " The Man-o'-\\'ar Bird, that wonderful aeronaut of tropical waters " 21 

 Young Great White Heron 27 

 Great White Heron. " He stood like a statue or obelisk " 29 

 Young Ward's Herons. " Making vicious lunges" 31 

 Man-o'-War P>irds. " A plate full of the gracefully soaring birds " 35 

 Great White Herons. " Not so well-bred were a trio in a neigh- 

 boring nest " 40 

 "A pair of splendid White Pelicans" 41 

 Nest and young of the Wood Ibis, built on the tops of the man- 

 groves 43 

 Young Wood Ibis posed for a portrait 45 

 "The tract of woods into which returning Ibises were dropping " 47 

 White Ibises in " flight-line " for the rookery 51 

 White Ibises. " The trees were fairly alive with splendid great 



birds " 53 



