ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Yellow-legs were probing in the shallows . . . 112 

 They employed both wings and legs . . . . 120 

 Freely would her life have been given . . . . 128 

 Young red-tail — the cause of the trouble in the oaks 144 

 The undulating, loose companies of the little black- 

 headed Franklin's gulls 152 



Black marsh terns 160 



Along the shore-line 160 



Marsh terns and sandpipers 160 



Black-crowned night herons — well fledged young . 178 



Crows began to gyrate in different directions . . 186 



Every single one a prehistoric nightmare . . . 186 



There was a scramble from the mud-bank . . . 192 



The waders love a pasture shore 208 



Saw the leading goose collapse 208 



The crows came home 224 



Sharp-tail a few feet from the door 240 



