ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Robin family. Lens 9 T 7 ff inch focus; speed |; stop 32; 

 time ^ second; plate, Seeds' No. 27 "gilt edge"; dis- 

 tance of object 4 feet; full sun; July 28, 1900 



Frontispiece 



Adult Cedar-bird ....... Title 



Footprints of Kingfisher when thirty-three days old. 



Imprint from living bird ...... ii 



Head of Cock Robin with large katydid and angleworm 

 in bill .......... iv 



In the hill country of New Hampshire, overlooking 

 Northfield and Tilton, which is screened by the hill in 

 foreground. To the south, on the left, stands Mt. 

 Kearsarge; toward the northern horizon Ragged Mt. vi 



Red-eyed Vireo inspecting nest ..... viii 



Young of the Spotted Sandpiper, barely dried off, and 



but a few hours old. June 12 . . . . . xvi 



The home-life of wild birds as depicted in Egypt three 

 thousand years ago. Drawing of detail from wall 

 painting recently discovered at Kurna, on site of an- 

 cient Thebes, near Luxor ...... xxiii 



Automatic sign-language of a young bird, illustrated in a 



Cedar Waxwing 12 days old. X 2^ . . . . xxv 



Head of Red-tailed Hawk with frill erect. Four months 



old ......... xxvi 



FIG. i. Observation tent beside Cedar-bird's nest, which was 

 taken with its branch from pine tree and carried to open 

 field. At this nest the series shown on pages 8, 94-99 

 was made ......... 2 



FIG. 2. Tent in bushy pasture, marking position of nest of 



Chestnut-sided Warblers ...... 3 



FIG. 3 . Nearer, view of same tent and nest, showing brooding bird, 4 

 FIG. 4. Cedar-bird about to feed young by regurgitation. Photo- 

 graphed at the nest shown in Figs, i, 12, and 13. Zeiss 

 Anastigmat, Ser. ii a, 6^ inch; speed |; distance about 

 30 inches, in full sun . . . . . . 8 



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