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A Gull at home on the rocks . . . . * . V 212 



A pair of Gulls on the wharf 214 



Gull just catching a bite that is thrown to it . . .214 



Tame Gulls about the beach 214 



Gulls perched on the anchor chain awaiting dinner . . 216 



Great Blue Herons coming home from the marshes . . 225 



Family of young Great Blue Herons in tree-top nest . . 225 



Young Great Blue Heron * * . . . . . 225 



Great Blue Heron in top of sycamore beside nest . . 225 



Full-grown young Night Heron ....*. 229 



Using a reflex camera in the tree-tops among the Herons . 230 



Black-crowned Night Heron on nest . . . . . 230 



Young Night Heron clinging to limb , . . . * 230 



Nest and eggs of the Golden Eagle . * . . . 236 



Working at the aerie of the Golden Eagle. The nestlings 



about three-fourths grown. The nest is five feet across 236 



Photographing the Golden Eagle's nest ... 236 



Downy white Eagles at the age of twenty-five days . . 240 



Mottled young Eagles at the age of forty days . . . 240 



The royal twins at the age of fifty-five days . . . 240 



Pair of young Golden Eagles at the age of sixty-two days 240 



