LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Full-page Plates. 



FACING 

 PLATE PAQE 



I. — Barn, Cliff, Bank, and Tree Swallows Frontispiece 



IT.— Pied-billed Grebe 2 



III. — Loon 6 



IV.— Herring Gull; Petrels 10 



V. — Wood Duck; Pintails; Mallards: Green-winged 



Teal ; Blue-winged Teal ; Canada Geese . . 14 

 VI. — Little Green Heron; Black-crowned Night Heron; 



Great Blue Heron ly 



VIT. — American Bittern ; Sora . . . . ' . .22 



VIII. — American Coot; Clapper Rail 26 



IX.— Wilson's Snipe 30 



X. — Common Tern; Semipalmated Sandpiper; Semipal- 



mated Plover 34 



XI.— Spotted Sandpiper ; Killdeer 88 



XII.— Ruffed Grouse 42 



XIII. — Mourning Dove .46 



XIV.— Red-shouldered Hawk 50 



XV.— Marsh Hawk . 52 



XVI. — Sparrow Hawk 54 



XVII.— Sharp-shinned Hawk 56 



XVIII. — American Osprey 58 



XIX.— Short-earod Owl 60 



XX.— Screech Owl 62 



XXI.— Barred Owl 64 



XXII.— Yellow-hilled Cuckoo 66 



XXIIL— Belted Kingfisher 68 



XXIV.— Downy Woodpecker 70 



XXV.— Red-headed Woodpecker 84 



XXVI.— Flicker 86 



XXVII.— Nighthawk ; Whip-poor-will 88 



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