LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

 A Window Lunch Counter .... Frontispiece 



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A Rustic Feeding-stand and Shelter 19 



A Woodpecker's Spear 38 



Downy's Chisel and Climber 41 



Cardinal 59 



The Goldfinch Loops the Loop 70 



The Brown Creeper's Probe-like Bill and Pointed 



Stiffened Tail-feathers 74 



Two of White-throat's Songs 77 



Lapland Longspur no 



The Hawk-like Bill of the Shrike 113 



Meadowlark (upper figure) and Bob-white . . . 118 



Sparrow Hawk 127 



The Powerful Groping Feet of (A) An Owl, (B) A 



Hawk 135 



Red-shouldered Hawk 138 



Sharp-shinned Hawk Pursuing a Redpoll . . . 142 



The Slender Foot of a Ruffed Grouse in Summer 

 (Left") and (Right) The Fringed Foot of a Ruffed 



Grouse in Winter, When the Bird Dons Snowshoes 155 



Evening Grosbeak 163 



Carolina Wren ■. 174 



Mockingbird 177 



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