ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLORED PLATES 

 No. Facing Page 



1. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Archilochus coliibris (Linn.)- Male and 



Female. Frontispiece. 



2. Horned Grebe. Colijmbus aurilus (Linn.). Male and Female 18 



3. Royal Tern. Sterna maxima (Bodd.). Standing. Cabot's Tern. Sterna sandi-icensis 



aciiflairida (Cabot). Sitting 34 



4. Merganser. Mergiis americanus (Cas.s.). Male and Female 56 



5. Wood Duck. Ai.T sponsa (Linn.). Male and Female 70 



6. Canada Goose. Branta canadensis canadensis (Linn.) 88 



7. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron. Nyctanassa violacea (Linn.). Adult aljove, immature 



below 106 



8. Purple Galhnule. lonornis martinicus (Linn.) 114 



9. Hudsonian Cm'lew. Numenius hudsonicus (Lath.) 144 



10. Oyster-Catcher. Hcematopus palliatus (Temm.) 150 



11. Bob-White, Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linn.). Male and Female 152 



12. Swallow-Tailed Kite. Elanoides forficatus (Linn.). Male and Female 162 



13. Duck Hawk. Falco percgrinus analum (Bouap.). Male and Female 172 



14. Screech Owl. Otus asio asio (Linn.). Red and gray phases 182 



15. Red-Cockaded Woodpecker. Dryobates horealis (VieiU.). Male and P'emale 190 



16. Blue Jay. Cyanocitta cristaia cristata (Linn.) 212 



17. Boat-Tailed Crackle. Megaqid.'icalus major major {yieiW..}. Male and Female 226 



18. ^^'hite-Throated Sparrow. Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmel.), Upper. Fox Sparrow. 



Passerella iliaca iliaca (Merrem), Lower 242 



19. Painted Bunting. Passerina ciris (Linn.). Male and Female 256 



20. Yellow-Tlu'oated ^^'arbler. Dendroica dominica dominica (Linn.), Upper. Prothono- 



tary Warbler. Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.), Lower 292 



21. Yellow Warbler. Dendroica oestiva aestiva (Gmel,), LTpper, Black-Throated Blue 



Warbler. Dendroica cceridescens can-ulescens (Gmel.), Male and Female, Lower. . . 294 



22. Canada Warbler. Wilsonia canadensis ('L\m\.),V\)per. Red.start. Setophaga rutieilla 



(Linn.), Male and Female, Lower 308 



23. Brown-Headed Nuthatch. Sitta piisilla (Lath.). Male and Female 322 



24. Robin. Planesticus migratorius migratorius (Linn.). Male and Female 334 



BLACK AND WHITE PLATES 



.11. A typical tree in the Cormorant rookery. The small cypress pictured contains 



twenty-eight occupied nests. {Photo by H. H. Brimley) 48 



2. Nest of Bald Eagle. This nest is near the top of a very tall pine, growing in a 

 thick swamp, two or tliree hundred yards from the shores of \\'hite Lake, 

 Bladen County. The nest is very large, having been added to year after year. 

 It is approximately a hundred feet from the ground, and the birds are reputed 

 to have nested in this tree, or near by, for fiftj' years or more, (Photo by 



T. W. Adickes) 48 



B 1. Collecting a nest, with nearly grown young, of Great Blue Heron. Great Lake, 



Craven County. {Photo by H. H. Brimley) 96 



2. Young Black Skimmer crouching and hiding in bunch of .seaweed. Note the pro- 

 tective coloration. Royal Shoal, Pamlico Sound. {Photo by II . H. Brimley) . . 96 



