PART II. OTHER WANDERINGS SOUTH 



VI. Scavengers of the South I0 3 



VII. Virginia Bird-Homes of Beach and Marsh 116 



VIII. The Egret, in Nature and in Fashion 134 



PART III. THE SEA ! THE SEA ! 



IX. To Bird Rock in an Open Boat 153 



X. Amid Northern Spruces and Sea-Girt Rocks 171 



XI. Off Chatham Bars 187 



PART IV. THE ELUSIVE SHORE-BIRDS 



XII. The Shore Patrol 203 



XIII. Northward with the Shore-Bird Host 223 



XIV. Shore-Bird Loiterers 239 



PART V. RAPTORS AND FOREST FASTNESSES 



XV. The New Sport of " Hawking " 259 



XVI. Owl Secrets 291 



XVII. Adventures with Great Horned Owls 313 



Index 337 



