168 Allen, Habitat Groups of North American Birds. [A"n 



Duck Hawk on the Palisades. Background by Hobart Nichols. 



— The nest is on a shelf of a cliff, and contains down-covered young; 

 one of the old birds is approaching the nest bearing in its talons a 

 domestic pigeon. The locality is the western shore of the Hudson, 

 at Englewood, New Jersey, and the outlook is northward from the 

 'Gorge,' overlooking the river. 



August Bird-Life of the Hackensack Meadows. Background 

 by Bruce Horsfall. Birds by E. W. Smith. — The locality is the 

 marshes of the Hackensack River, near Little Ferry, New Jersey. 

 The view is westward, across the marshes. Cattails, wild rice, 

 reeds, sagittarias and other aquatic plants make up the foreground, 

 which is enlivened by the rose-colored flowers of the marsh-mallow 

 and the scarlet of cardinal flowers. The purpose of the group is to 

 illustrate a night resort of Swallows, and the feeding grounds of 

 Reedbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, and other species which visit 

 the marshes in large numbers to feed on the wild rice. The birds 

 are perched on the cattails and wild rice, with rails and a pair 

 of Wood Ducks in the immediate foreground. 



Wild Turkey Group. Background by Bruce Horsfall. Birds 

 by H. C. Denslow. — A pair of old birds with their brood of young, 

 in an opening in a forest in the mountains of West Virginia. 



Florida Great Blue Heron. Background by Bruce Horsfall. 

 Birds by H. C. Denslow. — A group of adult birds and half-grown 

 young in the tree-tops of a Florida heronry, with characteristic 

 surroundings. 



The Anhinga or Water Turkey. Background by Bruce Horsfall. 



— Nests with eggs, nests with young birds at different stages of 

 growth, and several old birds of both sexes, with one swimming 

 submerged in the foreground. The scene is a lake nearly enclosed 

 with cypress and palmettoes, with a distant vista showing the 

 characteristic scenery of the lake region near St. Lucie, Florida. 

 'Bonnets' (yellow pond-lilies) give color to the immediate fore- 

 ground. 



Sandhill Crane Group. Background by Bruce Horsfall. Birds 

 by Herbert Lang. — A pair of birds, with their nest and eggs, in a 

 water-filled depression on the Kissimmee Prairies, Florida; back- 

 ground, a broad view of the prairies; hammocks and palm trees 

 in the distance. 



