LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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I. Barn, Cliff, Bank, and Tree Swallows Frontispiece 



II. Pied-billed Grebe 8 



III. Loon 6 



IV. Herring Gull; Petrels 10 



V. Wood Duck; Pintails; Mallards: Green- winged 



Teal ; Blue- winged Teal ; Canada Geese . . 14 

 VI. Little Green Heron; Black-crowned Night Heron; 



Great Blue Heron 18 



VII. American Bittern ; Sora 22 



VIII. American Coot; Clapper Rail 26 



IX. Wilson's Snipe 30 



X. Common Tern; Semipalmated Sandpiper; Semipal- 



mated Plover 34 



XI. Spotted Sandpiper ; Killdeer ..... 38 



XII. Ruffed Grouse 42 



XIII. Mourning Dove 46 



XIV. Red-shouldered Hawk 50 



XV. Marsh Hawk 52 



XVI. Sparrow Hawk 54 



XVII. Sharp-shinned Hawk 56 



XVIII. American Osprey 68 



XIX. Short-eared Owl 60 



XX. Screech Owl 62 



XXI. Barred Owl 64 



XXII. Yellow-billed Cuckoo 66 



XXIII. Belted Kingfisher 68 



XXIV. Downy Woodpecker 70 



XXV. Red-headed Woodpecker 84 



XXVI. Flicker 86 



XXVII. Nighthawk; Whip-poor-will 88 



