LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



THE SUPREME MOMENT Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



THE NATIONAL GAME-BIRD (Bob-white) .... 68 



A DESERT RUNNER (GambePs Partridge) .... 100 



THE RUFFED GROUSE STRUTTING 134 



THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN (Pinnated Grouse) .... 174 



THE KING OF WILD BIRDS 252 



A WOODLAND HERMIT (The Woodcock) . . . .303 



THE GAME-BIRD OF THE UNIVERSE (The Plover) . . 328 



CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN-QUAIL 386 



