LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Supreme Moment 



The National Game-Bird (Bob-white) 



A Desert Runner (Gambel's Partridge) 



The Ruffed Grouse Strutting 



The Prairie Chicken (Pinnated Grouse) 



The King of Wild Birds . 



A Woodland Hermit (The Woodcock) 



The Game-Bird of the Universe (The Plover) 



California Mountain-Quail . . . . 



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