ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



Page. 



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



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



wood forest . 6 



III. The wood duck 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 FIGURES. 



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



Arkansas 50 



2. Breeding area of the whippoorwill (Antrostomus vocifenis) in Arkansas. . 51 



3. Breedingareaof the scarlet tanager (Piranha en/ZAromeZas) in Arkansas.. 69 



4. Breeding area of the brown thrasher ( Toxostoma rufum) in Arkansas 85 



