ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



Greater Shearwater and Wilson's Petrels 218 



Turnstones and Sandpipers on sandy beach 218 



Home scene in rookery of Black-Crowned Night Herons . 222 



View in Great Blue Heron colony 222 



Young Cooper's Hawk, just out of nest 234 



Pet Sparrow Hawk, eating dinner 242 



Louisiana Heron at nest 242 



Flicker near low nest-hole by road . . 254 



Industrious Downy Woodpecker at work ........ 254 



