xvi List of Illustrations 
fACING 
One Little Sandpiper. ' {R. H. Beebe) . . 
The Coot. (C. W. Beebe) . . - . 
The Little Green Heron, the Smallest and 
Most Abundant Member of his Tribe. 
{W. P. Hopkins). .... 
Half-grown Little Green Herons on Dress 
Parade. {John M. Schreck) . 
Black-crowned Night Heron Rising from a 
Morass. {Alfred J. Might) 
Canada Geese. {Geo. D. Bartlett) 
The Feather-lined Nest of a Wild Duck. 
Sea Gulls in the Wake of a Garbage Scow 
Cleansing New York Harbour of Floating 
Refuse . . . . . . 
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