ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Flicker Feeding its Young in a Berlepsch 

 Nest Box* .... Frontispiece 



The Author and a Friendly Chickadee . . 4 



From a photograph by Louise Birt Baynes 



I Wonder what He's Got in that ... 8 

 A Chickadee Guest 8 



From photographs by Louise Birt Baynes 



Lapland Longspurs after a Storm . . 16 



From a photograph by Dr. Thomas S. Roberts 



Quail Dead from Starvation . . . .16 



From a photograph by Wilbur Smith 



A Red Squirrel Usurping Feed Box and 



Bath* 22 



Red Foxes Destroy Birds both Old and 

 Young* 22 



Tracks of a Mink* 28 



The Skunk will Eat Young Wild Birds as 



Well as Hens* 34 



"Advancing Death." The White Weasel, or 



Ermine* 34 



The Snowy Owl is Partial to Waterfowl* . 40 



The Raccoon Dines on Birds when He Can* . 50 



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