ILLUSTRATIONS 
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Kiideer and young one day old 154 
Kildeer startled, and about to run 156 
Young flickers leaving t^e nest (Plate VII.) . . . 158 
Squirming flicker babies, two days old 162 
Young red-headed woodpecker leaving nest . . . 171 
On the lookout .... 174 
Dr. Jekyll 172 
Nest and eggs of the jay 184 
One of the jay’s victims : nest of swamp sparrow . 186 
Nests devastated by jays 188 
Chimney swift’s nest and eggs (Plate VIII.) . . . 19 1 
“ We want our mama ” 195 
Nest of barn swallow 201 
Nest and eggs of catbird in a bush (Plate IX.) . . 207 
Catbirds three weeks old : The same, two weeks later 209 
A tilt between a bluebird and a catbird, each four 
weeks old ..215 
The same birds as in preceding cut, showing progress 
in feathering and relative growth . . . . . 220 
Nest and eggs of thrasher in thorn-bush (Plate X.) . 224 
Nest of thrasher on the ground 225 
Thorn-bush, the thrasher’s favorite nesting-place . . 227 
Baby thrashers, ten days old 232 
Hair-bird’s nest, in same thorn-bush 235 
Young hair-birds and undeveloped egg 236 
A tyrant fledgling 241 
A nest of mud and grasses 244 
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