LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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



II.— 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 18 



VII. — American Bittern ; Sora 22 



VIII. — American Coot; Clapper Rail 26 



IX.— Wilson's Snipe 30 



X. — Common Tern; Semipalmated Sandpiper; Semipal- 



mated Plover 34 



XL— Spotted Sandpiper ; Killdeer 38 



XIL— Ruffed Grouse 42 



XIII.— Mourning Dove 46 



XIV.— Red-shouldered Hawk . . . ... . .50 



XV.— Marsh Hawk 52 



XVI.— Sparrow Hawk 54 



XVIL— Sharp-shinned Hawk 56 



XVIII. — American Osprey 58 



XIX.— Short-eared Owl 60 



XX.— Screech Owl 62 



XXL— Barred Owl 64 



XXIL— Yellow-billed Cuckoo 66 



XXIII.— 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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