LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Quintette- of Mouse Destroyers . . . Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



A Million Birds on One Island 8 



The Rookeries Lie Like Dark Shadows of Immovable 

 Clouds 8 



Buff Orpington Cock . 72 



Buff Orpington Capon 72 



The Red Jungle Fowl 72 



Silky Bantams 72 



A Loft of Homing Pigeons, Showing the Trap Door 104 



The Message Is Placed in a Metal Cylinder Fastened 



to the Leg of the Bird 104 



Almost Exterminated for the Plumage Trade . . 168 

 Bought in London, 1912 . 176 



Victoria Crowned Pigeon, the Bird Which Is 



Scalped for Its Lacy Plumes . ... . . 176 



Albatrosses of Laysan Island Before the Tragedy 176 



1050 Plumes of the Bird of Paradise, Seized by the 

 U. S. Customs Officers 184 



A Pair of Nubians ........ . 184 



Disused Cormorant Nests, Showing Guano Ready 



for Gathering 224 



A Cabot's Tern Colony in Texas ..224 



