xxii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Greater Shearwater rising 198 



Pomarine Jaeger 200 

 Half-Title, Part IV — Sandpipers and Turnstones. '" Tlie sands 



were fairly alive with shore-birds'" 201 



Semipalmated Sandpipers 203 



Turnstones. "The birds fed up near to me" 209 

 Flock of Turnstones, with a Wilson's Plover, a Dowitcher, and 



a Sandpiper 213 

 Turnstones and Sandpipers. " Within a dozen feet they fed, 



bathed, and preened their feathers" 215 



Hudsonian Curlews coming in at night to roost 217 



" A splendid male Black-breast Plover." " Tired of feeding " 220 



IJlack-breast Plover. " (lone sweetly off into dreamland" 221 



Lesser Yellow-legs in Florida pool 222 



Anxious Ring-necked Plovers. " When they came together " 223 



Nest and eggs of Least Sandpiper 226 



Least Sandpiper on nest 227 



Mother Least Sandpiper. " Alighted on the posts and wire " 228 



Young Least Sandpipers as first found 229 



Wilson's Snipe on nest. " A splendid timed exposure" 233 



Ring-necked Plover and young. ''The little fellow scurried in 



under the maternnl breast" 237 



Nest and eggs of Ring-necked Plover 238 



American Oyster-catcher on nest 239 



Nest and eggs of Oyster-catcher 241 



Young Oyster-catcher 245 



Nest and eggs of Wilson's Plover 247 

 Scene on the Willet Key. Pair of Willets and a Wilson's Plover 249 



