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BoB-wniTE Frontispiece. 



Color Chart 39 



Pied-billed Grebe and Young 57 



Heads of Ducks 97 



Little liLUE Herons 135 



Clapper Rail 140 



Woodcock and Youno 153 



Spotted Sandpiper and Young 169 



Ruffed Grouse and Young 181 



Sparrow Hawk and Young 211 



Hairy Woodpecker; Yellow-bellied Sapsucker . . . 229 



Whip-poor-will 2JJ7 



Least Flycat( her ; Ph(ebr 245 



Bobolink 202 



Meadowlark 205 



White-throated Sparrow; White-crowned Sparrow . . 3()0 



Song Sparrow ; Swamp Sparrow 300 



Yellow-throated Vireo; Warbling Vireo .... 330 



Louisiana Water-Thrush 308 



Wood Thrush ; Wilson's Thrush 395 



FIGUREH IN THE TEXT. 



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1. A completed birdskin 28 



2. Topography of a bird 33 



3. (a) Spotted, {h) streaked, (c) barred, {d) margined featliers . 34 



4. Rule showing inches and tenths 37 



6. Feet of (a) Pied-billed Grebe, (h) Loon, (r) Puffin ... 41 



6. {a) Bill of Parasitic Jaeger ; (6) bill and foot of Laughing Gull 41 



7. Bill of Common Tern 42 



8. Bill of Skimmer 43 



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