LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Quintette of Mouse Destroyers . . . Frontispiece 



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A Million Birds on One Island 8 



The Rookeries Lie Like Dark Shadows of Immovable 



Clouds 8 



Buff Orpington Cock 72 



Buff Orpington Capon 72 



The Red Jungle Fowl 72 



Silky Bantams 72 



A Loft of Homing Pigeons, Showing the Trap Door 104 



The Message Is Placed in a Metal Cylinder Fastened 



to the Leg of the Bird 104 



Almost Exterminated for the Plumage Trade . . 168 



Bought in London, 1912 176 



Victoria Crowned Pigeon, the Bird Which Is 

 Scalped for Its Lacy Plumes 176 



Albatrosses of Laysan Island Before the Tragedy 176 



1050 Plumes of the Bird of Paradise, Seized by the 



U. S. Customs Officers 184 



A Pair of Nubians 184 



Disused Cormorant Nests, Showing Guano Ready 



for Gathering 224 



A Cabot's Tern Colony in Texas .224 



