ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Greater Shearwater and Wilson's Petrels 218 



Turnstones and Sandpipers on sandy beach 218 



Home scene in rookery of Black-Crowned Night Herons . 222 



View in Great Blue Heron colony 222 



Young Cooper's Hawk, just out of nest 234 



Pet Sparrow Hawk, eating dinner 242 



Louisiana Heron at nest . . . h. . 242 



Flicker near low nest-hole by road ........ 254 



Industrious Downy Woodpecker at work . . ... . . . 254 



