xviii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
Half-Title, Part I — Noddies. “ Mates caressing ” xxvii 
Part of the Pelican city, as seen from the boat i 
Brown Pelicans. “ It was not until we sprang out upon the shore 
that there was any considerable flight ” 5 
Newly hatched young Pelicans 6 
The young Pelicans improve with age 7 
♦Brown Pelicans. “ They made me think of gangs of boys ” 8 
The Brown Pelicans on their nests 11 
Young Pelicans, almost ready to fly 13 
Adult and young Pelicans on nests in mangrove bushes 15 
A typical Pelican’s nest 17 
Brown Pelicans on their nests, at close range 18 
Man-o’-War Birds. “Now they began to rise” ig 
“ The Man-o’-\AAr Bird, that wonderful aeronaut of tropical waters ” 21 
Young Great White Heron 27 
Great White Heron. “ He stood like a statue or obelisk ” 29 
Young Ward’s Herons. “ Making vicious lunges” 31 
Man-o’-War Birds. “ A plate full of the gracefully soaring birds ” 35 
Great White Herons. “ Not so well-bred were a trio in a neigh¬ 
boring nest” 40 
“A pair of splendid White Pelicans” 41 
Nest and young of the Wood Ibis, built on the tops of the man¬ 
groves 43 
Young Wood Ibis posed for a portrait 45 
“ The tract of woods into which returning Ibises were dropping ” 47 
White Ibises in “ flight-line ” for the rookery 51 
White Ibises. “ The trees were fairly alive with splendid great 
birds” S3 
