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CHAPTER XXVI 



PAGE 



A Cooing Pair 344 



Passenger Pigeon. — JSIourning Dove. 



CHAPTER XXVII 



Three Famous Game Birds 349 



Bob White— Ruffed Grouse — Woodcock. 



CHAPTER XXVIII 



On the Shore 357 



A Long-necked Family: Black-crowned Night Heron — 

 American Bittern — A Bonnet Martyr and a Blue Giant 



— Snowy Egret — Great Blue Heron. 



CHAPTER XXIX 

 Up the River 375 



Turnstone — Golden Plover — Wilson's Snipe — Spotted 

 Sandpiper — Least Sandpiper — Virginia Rail. 



CHAPTER XXX 



Ducks and Drakes 389 



Wood Duck — Black Duck — Mallard — Pintail — Green- 

 winged Teal — Blue-winged Teal — Redhead — Old Squavy 



— Hooded Merganser. 



CHAPTER XXXI 



Gulls and Terns at Home 408 



Canada Goose — American Herring Gull — Common Tern 



— Loon — Pied-billed Grebe. 



CHAPTER XXXII 

 Chorus by the Birds 417 



CHAPTER XXXIII 

 Procession of Bird Families 420 



INDEX 429 



