LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PADS 



Grouse "budding" in an apple tree ... 88 



Cuckoo raiding a tent of caterpillars . . . 1 1 1 



Screech owl and its prey 115 



Passenger Pigeons are now extinct .... 127 



The Great Auk, now extinct 1 33 



Terns formerly sought by the feather trade . 144 



Crowned Pigeon that furnishes the "goura" of 



the feather trade 1 59 



Migrative birds are protected by the Govern- 

 ment 172 



The grotesque Wood Ibis 208 



Hungry young Egrets 210 



Cemented holes shut out the Chickadee . 216 



Gourds and boxes for Martins 219 



A bird bath 235 



Coloring of birds upon outline drawings . . 257 



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