XX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Half-Title, Part II — Turkey Buzzard 



Black Vultures. ''They sit in rows upon the adjoining houses " 



Turkey Buzzard. Sunning itself 



Turkey Buzzard's portrait. "Not altogether as pretty as a picture " 



Turkey Buzzard. '' A fine subject to photograph " 



Black Buzzard on street in Charleston 



Black Vultures. "The fences of the slaughter-pens were fairly 



black with them " 

 Negroes and Black Buzzards on city dumping-ground, Charleston 

 Turkey Buzzard. " On pinions majestic the vulture " 

 Flock of Laughing Gulls by the quarantine station 

 Nest and eggs of the Black Skimmer 

 " Parties of Skimmers were flying about'' 

 Nest and eggs of the Clapper Rail 

 Black Skimmer incubating eggs 

 Laughing Gulls hovering over their nests 

 Young Common Terns, ready to escape 

 Young Marsh Tern hiding 

 Laughing Gull on her nest 

 Nest and eggs of Marsh Tern 

 Tlie American Egret in flight 

 Osprey and nest 

 Egrets and Little Blue Herons 

 Young Little Blue Herons 

 Young Egrets in nest 

 Egret watching approach of boat 

 Female Egret on her nest 

 Young Egrets nearly fledged 



