xvi Illustrations 



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The Opossum will Destroy Birds and Eggs* . 58 

 American Song Birds Killed by Italians . 66 



From a photograph by Wilbur Smith 



A Snapping Turtle Destroyed Fifteen Young 



Wood Ducks 74 



From a photograph by E. A. Quarles 



This Bull Frog could Swallow a Young 



Waterfowl* ...... 74 



Monument to the Sea Gulls in Salt Lake 



City 84 



Designed by Mahonri Young 



The Great Horned Owl Destroys many Bird 



Enemies* ....... 92 



Screech Owl and its Home-made Bird House* . 100 



Stomach Contents of a Meadow Lark : Four- 

 teen Cutworms, Thirty-Six Beetles . 108 



From a photograph by Harold C. Bryant 



A Barn Owl's Scrap Heap: Bones of Mice, 



but no Feathers 108 



From a photograph by Thomas H. Jackson 



One Hundred and Thirty-three Redpolls and 



Pine Siskins as Guests* . . . .116 



Martin House in a Meriden Garden* . .116 



Grouse Burrow in the Snow* . . . 122 



A Feeding Station where the "Bird Masque" 



was Staged* 130 



Quail Saved from Starvation by High-School 



Boys 130 



From a photograph by John Tresilian 



