LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Full-page Plates. 



PLATE PAGE 



T. — Barn, Cliff, Bank, and Tree Swallows . Frontispiece 



II.— Pied-billed Grebe .85 



III.— Loon 87 



IV.— Herring Gull ; Petrels 89 



V. — Wood Duck ; Pintails ; Mallards ; Green-winged Teal ; 



Bine-winged Teal ; Canada Geese .... 93 

 VI. — Little Green Heron ; Black-crowned Night Heron ; 



Great Blue Heron .97 



VII. — American Bittern ; Sora 99 



VIII. — American Coot ; Clapper Rail 101 



IX.— Wilson's Snipe 105 



X. — Common Tern ; Semipalmated Sandpiper ; Semipal- 



mated Plover 107 



XI. — Spotted Sandpiper; Killdeer . . . . , . 109 



XII.— Ruffed Grouse 113 



XIII. — Jlourning Dove 115 



XIV.— Red-shouldered Hawk 117 



XV.— Marsh Hawk 119 



XVI.— Sparrow Hawk 121 



XVIL— Sharp-shinned Hawk 123 



XVIII. — American Osprey 125 



XIX.— Short-eared Owl" 127 



XX.— Screech Owl 129 



XXL— Barred Owl 131 



XXIL— Yellow-billed Cuckoo 133 



XXIIL— Belted Kingfisher 135 



XXIV. — Downy Woodpecker 137 



XXV.— Red-headed Woodpecker 139 



XXVI.— Flicker 141 



XXVIL— Nighthawk ; Whip-poor-will 143 



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