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Paie of Yellow Waeblees {In Colors) . . . .Frontispiece 



POOT OF ThEEE-TOED WOODPECKER xiv 



Foot of Foub-toed Woodpecker xiv 



Horned Grebes with Nest (In Colors) 8 



California Gulls Gathering Insects (In Colors) . . 20 



California Gulls 24 



Old and Young Ring-Billed Gulls 24 



Young Terns 32 



Young Double-Crested Cormorants 32 



Nests of Double-Crested Cormorants 33 



Fully Webbed Foot of One of the Staganopodes . 44 



Male and Female Mallard 48 



Mallard Drake 48 



Canada Goose 48 



The Trumpeter Swan {In Colors) 68 



The Green Heron {In Colors) 80 



Pair of Sandhill Cranes at Home {In Colors) . . 84 



Nest and Young American Coot 96 



Young Killdeer 96 



KiLLDEER AND NeST 97 



Foot of Coot 97 



Male Bobwhite 108 



Bobwhite's Nest 108 



Young Mourning Doves 108 



Prairie Chickens {In Colors) 116 



youNG Turkey Buzzard 128 



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