ILLUSTRATIONS 
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Yellow-headed blackbirds two weeks old in nest 
(Plate III.) 52 
Home of yellow-headed blackbird 53 
Young clinging to edge of nest 56 
Baby robins, eighteen days old 64 
Robin, six weeks old 68 
Taking a sun-bath 72 
Crow’s nest in crotch of a tree (Plate IV.) .... 77 
Olive-green eggs, spotted with black 79 
Phoebe’s nest and young ......... 91 
Baby pewee fast asleep ......... 93 
Dainty nest of the w'ood pewee 97 
The beautiful and the grotesque loi 
Fluffy baby orioles 105 
Contentment 108 
Baby chickadee emerging from nest (Plate V.) . . m 
Location of chickadee’s nest 114 
“ Two is company ” 125 
A handful of babies 130 
Sora rail’s nest and eggs 136 
A baby rail 138 
Immature sora rail 141 
Nest of spotted sandpiper exposed (Plate VI.) . . 144 
Sandpiper’s nest, skilfully concealed ..... 146 
Sandpiper’s babies, hiding on the sand 148 
A spry little “teeter” 150 
Baby quail in the hand . . . 152 
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