LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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A Hitherto Unpublished Drawing, John James Audubon.. 2 



American Herring Gull, by Fuertes 3 



William T. Hornaday 4 



Map of the New York Zoological Park 5 



Nest of the American Osprey at San Clemente Island .... 6 



Chimney Swifts, by Fuertes 7 



Snowy Heron S 



Plumes of the White Heron 9 



Price after the Flycatcher's Nest 13 



The Home of the Sage Grouse 16 



The Sage Grouse iB 



Osprey Nest at Narragansett Bay iH 



A Peak on the South Wall of Walker Pass ig 



Pied-billed Grebe 20 



Nest and Eggs of the Hammond's Flycatcher 21 



Fac-simile Letter from Audubon to Prince Bonaparte in 



1833 29 



Daniel G. Elliot 30 



White-headed and Egyptian Vultures 32 



Ostriches 32 



Wilson's Snipe. Fro/it Life 33 



White-headed Vultures 34 



The American Osprey 35 



A Nest of the Cactus Wren 36 



An Osprey's Nest at Bristol, R. 1 41 



The Extinct Labrador Duck 43 



The American Museum of Natural History 44 



The Black-throated Green Warbler 46 



A Dove's Nest on a Wasp's Nest 55 



Tufted Puffin, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 57 



Bird House for the New York Zoological Park 58 



At Home in the Valley of the San Juan de Letran 60 



A Refuge for Bats and Barn Owls— and Cuban Rebels.... 61 



Horned Puffin at Entrance to Nest 63 



Ancient Murrelets 64 



Tufted Puffin on the Hillside 64 



Nests of the Glaucous-winged Gull. 6s 



Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker, (Male), by Fuertes G7 



A Double Nest 68 



Prairie Hen, by Edwin Sheppard. 69 



Ruffed Grouse, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 71 



William Brewster 72 



Male Woodpecker at Nest Hole 74 



' The Woodpeckers Outlook ' 75 



Red-shouldered Hawk, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 76 



Water Angel's Nest Under a Bridge 77 



William Brewster at Pine Point Camp 78 



Home of the Pied-billed Grebe 80 



Nest of the Pied-billed Grebe 81 



In the Tree with the Eagle's Nest 83 



Diagram (Birds vs. Dragonfiies) 86 



Heads and Feet of Phalaropes 87 



Henry Reed Taylor go 



Distribution of the Prothonotary Warbler in Illinois 93 



Audubon 94 



John J. Audubon. 96 



Pencil Sketch of Audubon, by himself 97 



Eagle and Lamb, by Audubon 98 



Young Burrowing Owl loi 



Bohemian Waxwing, by Ernest Seton Thompson 102 



Chimney Swift, by Ernest Seton Thompson 103 



Cuckoo, Nest and Young, by W. Hamilton Gibson 104 



W. Hamilton Gibson 108 



Chipping Sparrow Feeding Young Cowbird, by W. Hamil- 

 ton Gibson no 



Three Stumps with Typical Nesting Cavities of the 



Prothonotary Warbler. in 



Young Willow Warblers 112 



An Excited Screech Owl 112 



George Harlow Clarke 115 



Map Showing Bowdoin Bay 116 



Walrus-ivory F'igureof Rock Ptarmigan, Carved by Eskimo. 116 



Remains of the Electrocuted Eagles 121 



Blue Jays in Nest, About Eleven Days Old 122 



Young Sooty Terns 124 



Nest and Eggs of the Ferruginous Rough-legged Buzzard. 125 



Young Short-eared Owl, from Life 126 



Young Gull, from Life 126 



Nest and Eggs of the Canvas-back Duck 127 



Ferruginous Pygmy Owl 128 



Nest and Eggs of the European Robin 130 



Blue Jay, About Seventeen Days Old 131 



A Hummingbird's Nest on a Wire 133 



