ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Mother Owl often sits with her young on the branch 

 of a tree and "talks" to them as if she were teach- 

 ing them some of her own wisdom {in Col- 

 ours) ...... Frontispiece 



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The artistic home of the crested cassique ... 2 

 The nest of the chestnut-shouldered oriole (Paraguay) 3 

 The egret is one of the most clever of bird artists . 10 



Egret artists at home in South Carolina . . .11 



The cliff home of the duck hawk (Palisades, Hudson 



River) . . . . . . . .18 



Cedar birds often build their homes in tiers in tall cedar- 

 trees ........ 19 



The penguins are social birds who live together in colo- 

 nies near the sea, making of the cliffs a city of 

 penguin apartment houses (in Colours) 

 The golden eagle and its eerie home (Wyoming) . 

 The barrel owl, a policeman of the night 

 Prairie chickens on one of their dancing-gromids . 

 The ruffled grouse is one of the most interesting of the 

 dancing birds ...... 



The great blue heron is well equipped by Nature to be 

 an athlete ...... 



The grebe has no rival as a water bird 

 A mother quail on guard over her nest 

 A black-billed cuckoo and two yellow-billed cuckoos in a 

 yellow-bill's nest ..... 



The great auk, one of the extinct giant road-makers 

 The restoration of a dodo bird (American Museum of 



Natural History, New York) . . . .109 



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