LIST OF ILLUSTKATIONS. 



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Bob-white Frontispiece. 



Color Chart . . 39 



Pied-billed Grebe and Young 57 



Heads of Ducks 97 



Little Blue Herons 135 



Clapper Rail 140 



Woodcock and Young lo3 



Spotted Sandpiper and Young 169 



Ruffed Grouse and Young 181 



Sparrow Hawk and Young 311 



Hairy Woodpecker; Yellow-bellied Sapsuckee . . . 229 



Whip-poor-will 237 



Least Flycatcher ; Phcebe 345 



Bobolink 263 



Mbadowlark 265 



White-throated Sparrow ; White-crowned Sparrow . . 300 



Song Sparrow; Swamp Sparrow 306 



Yellow-throated Yireo; Warbling Vireo 330 



Louisiana Water-Thrush 368 



Wood Thrush; Wilson's Thrush 395 



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1. A completed birdskin 28 



3. Topography of a bird 33 



3. (as) Spotted, (b) streaked, (c) barred, (rf) margined feathers . 34 



4. Rule showing inches and tenths 37 



5. Feet of (a) Pied-billed Grebe, (h) Loon, (c) Puffin ... 41 



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



7. Bill of Common Tern . 43 



8. Bill of Skimmer , . .' . . . . . .43 



