LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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



II. Pied-billed Grebe 85 



III. Loon 87 



IV. Herring Gull ; Petrels 89 



V._Wood Duck ; Pintails ; Mallards ; Green-winged Teal ; 



Blue-winged Teal ; Canada Geese .... 93 

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



Great Blue Heron 97 



VII. American Bittern ; Sora 99 



VIII. American Coot ; Clapper Rail 101 



IX. Wilson's Snipe 105 



X. Common Tern; Semipalmated Sandpiper; Semipal- 



mated Plover 107 



XI. Spotted Sandpiper ; Killdeer 109 



XII. Ruffed Grouse 113 



XIII. Mourning Dove H 5 



XIV. Red-shouldered Hawk 117 



XV. Marsh Hawk . . 119 



XVI. Sparrow Hawk 121 



XVII. Sharp-shinned Hawk 123 



XVIII. American Osprey . I 25 



XIX. Short-eared Owl 127 



XX. Screech Owl 139 



XXI. Barred Owl 131 



XXII. Yellow-billed Cuckoo 133 



XXIII. Belted Kingfisher 135 



XXIV. Downy Woodpecker 137 



XXV. Red-headed Woodpecker 139 



XXVI. Flicker 141 



XXVII. Nighthawk; Whip-poor-will 143 



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