Contents of Volume XXI. 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Plate L Portrait of Thomas Mcllwiaith. 



" IL Finale of Albatross Dance — The Duet. 



" in. Fig. I, Rookery of Laysan Albatross ; Fig. 2, Near the Lagoon, 



Laysan. 

 " IV. Fig. I, A Corner in one of the Rookeries, Fig. 2, Among the 



Laysan Albatrosses. 

 " V. Fig. I, First stage in Dance, Fencing; Fig. 2, Second step in 



Dance. 

 " VI. Fig. I, Last stage in Dance — one singing, the other snapping 



beak ; Fig. 2, Portrait of young Laysan Albatross. 

 " VII. Fig. I, Young Albatross asking for Food; Fig. 2, old bird 



starting to disgorge. 

 " VIII. Fig. I, The Arrival of Breakfast ; Fig. 2, Diomedea jiigripes 



punishing strange young. 

 " IX. Nest, Eggs, and Young of Roseate Spoonbill. 

 " X. Nest and Eggs of White Ibis. 

 " XL Bill of Portorican Woodpecker. 



" XII. Launch 'Audubon ' used by Warden in Southern Florida. 

 " XIII. Bird Key, Florida, a protected Tern Colony. 

 " XIV. Sooty Terns on Bird Key, Florida. 

 " XV. Sooty Terns and young, Bird Kej', Florida. 

 " XVI. Fig. I, Puffins, Matinicus Rock, Maine ; Fig. 2, Nest of 



American Eider, Maine Coast. 

 " XVII. Fig. I, Herring Gull, caught by foot in spruce stub. Great 

 Duck Island, Maine; Figs. 2 and 3, Black Giullemots, or 

 Sea Pigeons, on a protected Island in Maine. 

 " XVIII. Nest and Eggs of Curve-billed Thrasher. 

 " XIX. Young Great White Herons. 

 " XX. Nests of Louisiana Heron. 

 " XXI. Fig. I, Little Blue Heron Rookery, Fig. 2, Nest and Eggs of 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 

 " XXII. Black-capped Petrel. 1 

 " XXIII. The Farallone-s, from the East. 

 " XXIV. Finger Rock, Farallones. 

 " XXV. Great Murre Cave, Farallones. 

 " XXVI. Gulls on West^End, Farallones. 



" XXVII. Portion of !he Brandt's Comorant Rookery, Farallones. 

 " XXVIII. Fig. I, Rock Wren ; Fig. 2, Farallon Cormorant. 



^The date of capture given on the plate should be 1S93 instead of 1896. 



