ILLUSTR.ATIONS OF NESTS AND EGGS. 



Nest and eggs of Green Heron frontispiece 



*' " " Pied-billed Grebe Page 3 



" " " Holboell Grebe 4 



" " " Horned Grebe 6 



" Loon 8,13 



" " " Herring Gull 31 



" " " Common Tern 39 



" " " Least Tern 43 



" " " Yellow-billed Tropic Bird 56 



Nesting Gannets on Bird Rocks 58 



Nest and eggs of Double-crested Cormorants 61 



" " Mexican Cormorants 64 



" " American Merganser 69 



" " Gadwall 74 



" " Pintail 74 



" " Canada Goose 85 



" " American Bittern 93 



" " Little Brown Crane 101 



" Wilson Phalarope 108 



" " American Woodcock 108 



Woodcock on Nest Ill 



Nest and eggs of ]\Iarbled Godwit 118 



" " " Bartramian Sandpiper 122. 



" " " Spotted Sandpiper 124 



" " " Killdeer 129- 



" " " Bob-white 135- 



" " " Ruffed Grouse 140 



" " " Prairie Hen 144 



" " " Mourning Dove 149 



" Turkey Vulture 153 



" Marsh Hawk 156 



" " " Cooper Hawk 159 



" " " Red-shouldered Hawk 163 



" " " Ferruginous Rough-leg 167 



Osprey Returning to its Nest 173 



Long-eared Owl on its Nest 181 



