ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1. Teaching the Cat a Wrong Lesson 18 



2. Arsenated Skins 18 



3. Comparative Size Pictures Made with Various Lenses 19 



4. Umbrella Tent 20 



5. Diamond-backed Rattlesnake 20 



6. Hudson Bay Indian Guide 21 



7. Animated Lines 21 



8. Impenetrable Mangrove Roots 22 



9. Brown Pelican Breeding Colony 22 



10. Nest and Eggs of Reddish Egret 23 



11. Great Blue Heron Ground Nest 23 



12. Herring Gulls 24 



13. Laughing Gull 24 



14. Eggs of Least Tern and Nest 25 



15. Black Skimmers 25 



16. Brooding Anhinga Frontispiece 



17. Male and Female Anhinga 30 



18. Mexican Cormorant 30 



19. Man-o-War Birds 31 



20. Brown Pelican 31 



21. Brown Pelicans Flying . 38 



22. Brown Pelican's Nest and Eggs 38 



23. White Ibis's Nest and Eggs 39 



24. White Ibis's Head and BUI 39 



25. Great Blue Heron 42 



26. Great Blue Heron at Nest 42 



27. Great Blue Heron with Plume-Crested Head 43 



28. Snowy Heron, Mother Bird 43 



29. The Two Orphans 58 



30. Young Snowy Herons 58 



31. Snowy Herons in Missouri 59 



32. Limpkin 59 



33. Little Blue Heron Nest and Eggs 62 



34. Louisiana Heron 62 



35. Eggs of Bob-White 63 



36. The Last Passenger Pigeon 63 



37. Mourning Doves 70 



38. Black Vulture's Nest and Egg 70 



39. Harris Hawk 71 



40. Golden Eagle 71 



