ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLORED PLATES 

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1. Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Archilochus colubris (Linn.). Male and 



Female. Frontispiece. 



2. Horned Grebe. Colymbus auritus (Linn.). Male and Female 18 



3. Royal Tern. Sterna maxima (Bodd.). Standing. Cabot's Tern. Sterna sandvicensis 



acuflavida (Cabot). Sitting 34 



4. Merganser. Mergus americanus (Cass.). Male and Female 56 



5. Wood Duck. Aix sponsa (Linn.). Male and Female 70 



6. Canada Goose. Branta canadensis canadensis (Linn.) 88 



7. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron. Nydanassa violacea (Linn.). Adult above, immature 



below 106 



8. Purple Gallinule. lonornis martinicus (Linn.) 114 



9. Hudsonian Curlew. Numenius hudsonicus (Lath.) 144 



10. Oyster-Catcher. Hcematopus palliatus (Temm.) 150 



11. Bob-White. Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linn.). Male and Female 152 



12. Swallow-Tailed Kite. Elanoides forficatus (Linn.). Male and Female 162 



13. Duck Hawk. Falco peregrinus anatum (Bonap.). Male and Female 172 



14. Screech Owl. Otus asio asio (Linn.). Red and gray phases 182 



15. Red-Cockaded Woodpecker. Dryobates borealis (Vieill.). Male and Female 190 



16. Blue Jay. Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linn.) 212 



17. Boat-Tailed Grackle. Megaquiscalus maj or major (Vieill.). Male and Female 226 



18. White-Throated Sparrow. Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmel.), Upper. Fox Sparrow. 



Passerella iliaca iliaca (Merrem), Lower 242 



19. Painted Bunting. Passerina ciris (Linn.). Male and Female : 256 



20. Yellow-Throated Warbler. Dendroica dominica dominica (Linn.), Upper. Prothono- 



tary Warbler. Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.), Lower 292 



21. Yellow Warbler. Dendroica cestiva oestiva (Gmel.), Upper. Black-Throated Blue 



Warbler. Dendroica ccerulescens ccerulescens (Gmel.), Male and Female, Lower. . . 294 



22. Canada Warbler. Wilsonia canadensis (Linn.), Upper. Redstart. Setophaga ruticilla 



(Linn.), Male and Female, Lower 308 



23. Brown-Headed Nuthatch. Sitta pusilla (Lath.). Male and Female 322 



24. Robin. Planesticus migratorius migratorius (Linn.). Male and Female 334 



BLACK AND WHITE PLATES 



A I. A typical tree in the Cormorant rookery. The small cypress pictured contains 



twenty-eight occupied nests. (Photo by H. H. Brimley) 48 



2. Nest of Bald Eagle. This nest is near the top of a very tall pine, growing in a 

 thick swamp, two or three hundred yards from the shores of White Lake, 

 Bladen County. The nest is very large, having been added to year after year. 

 It is approximately a hundred feet from the ground, and the birds are reputed 

 to have nested in this tree, or near by, for fifty years or more. (Photo by 



T. W. Adickes) 48 



B 1. Collecting a nest, with nearly grown young s of Great Blue Heron. Great Lake, 



Craven County. (Photo by H. H. Brimley) 96 



2. Young Black Skimmer crouching and hiding in bunch of seaweed. Note the pro- 

 tective coloration. Royal Shoal, Pamlico Sound. (Photo by H. H. Brimley) . . 96 



