ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



Page. 



Plate I. Map of the life zones of Arkansas Frontispiece. 



II. Fig. 1. — St. Francis River. Fig. 2. — Canebrake in primitive hard- 

 wood forest 6 



HI. The wood ducl^ 20 



IV. Fig. 1. — Cypress swamp, Walker Lake. Fig. 2. — Great blue herons 



and nests 24 



V. The goatsuckers of Arkansas — ^nighthawk, whippoorwill, and chuck- 



will's-widow 50 



VI. A winter seed-eater — the white-throated sparrow 64 



VII. A summer resident insect-eater — the Kentucky warbler 80 



TEXT PIGtTKES. 



Fig. 1. Breeding area of the chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomits carolinensis) in 



Arkansas 50 



2. Breedingareaof the whippoorwill (.ilnfrostomMSiJoa/erMs) in Arkansas.. 51 



3. Breeding area of the scarlet tanager {Piranga erythromelas) in Arkansas. . 69 



4. Breeding area of the brown thrasher ( roxosioTna rtt/Um) in Arkansas 85 



