xx LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



HALF-TITLE, PART II Turkey Buzzard 101 

 Black Vultures. "They sit in rows upon the adjoining houses " 103 



Turkey Buzzard. Sunning itself 105 

 Turkey Buzzard's portrait. "Not altogether as pretty as a picture" 107 



Turkey Buzzard. " A fine subject to photograph " 109 



Black Buzzard on street in Charleston 1 1 1 

 Black Vultures. "The fences of the slaughter-pens were fairly 



black with them " 113 

 Negroes and Black Buzzards on city dumping-ground, Charleston 114 



Turkey Buzzard. "On pinions majestic the vulture" 115 



Flock of Laughing Gulls by the quarantine station 116 



Nest and eggs of the Black Skimmer 119 



" Parties of Skimmers were flying about" 121 



Nest and eggs of the Clapper Rail 123 



Black Skimmer incubating eggs 125 



Laughing Gulls hovering over their nests 127 



Young Common Terns, ready to escape 129 



Young Marsh Tern hiding 131 



Laughing Gull on her nest 132 



Nest and eggs of Marsh Tern 133 



The American Egret in flight 134 



Osprey and nest 137 



Egrets and Little Blue Herons 139 



Young Little Blue Herons 140 



Young Egrets in nest 141 



Egret watching approach of boat 143 



Female Egret on her nest 145 



Young Egrets nearly fledged 149 



