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 



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 (Antrostomus carolinensis) in 



Arkansas 50 



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



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



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



4 



