LIST OF PLATES 
The greater part of the illustrations in this report have been copied (some alterations as to 
positions, etc., have been made in nearly all) from the small edition of “ Audubon’s Birds of 
America.” By copying from said work which is regarded by competent critics as containing 
many of the finest portrayals of birds that have ever been published, the cost (ten to twenty-five 
dollars per plate) of original drawings was saved. The birds—most of the smaller species are 
about two-thirds or one-half the natural size ; in larger species the reductions are greater—have 
been colored from specimens in the author’s collection, or from those kindly loaned to him by 
Prof. Robert Ridgway, Curator Department of Birds, United States National Museum, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 
Plates. 
1. Figures illustrating terms used in descriptions. 
2. Horned Grebe (Colymbus auritus). 
3. Hooded Merganser ( Lopbodytes eucuUatus). 
4. Wood Duck (Aixsponsa). 
5. American Bittern ( Botaurus lentiginosus). 
6. Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax ncevius) 
7. Sora ( Porzana Carolina). 
8. American Coot ( Fulica americana). 
9. Wilson’s Snipe ( Gallinago delicata) 
10. Solitary Sandpiper ( Totanus solitarius). 
11. Killdeer LE gialitis vocifera). 
12. Bob-white or Partridge ( Colinus virginianus). 
13. Marsh Hawk (Circus hudsonius). 
14. Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter velox). 
15. Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo borealis). 
16. Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo latissimus). 
Sparrow Hawk (Falco sparverius). 
17. Barn Owl (Strix pratincola). 
18. Screech Owl (Megascops asio). 
19. Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus). 
Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrnns). 
Blue-winged Warbler (Helminthophila pinus). 
20. Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon). 
21. Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanei pes erythrocephalus). 
22. Flicker (Colaptes auratus). 
23. Nighthawk (Chordeiles virginianus). 
Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus). 
24. Kingbird (Tyrannus turannus). 
25. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata). 
26. Bobolink or Reedbird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). 
27. Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius pheeniceus). 
28. Meadowlark (Stumella magna). 
29. Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula). 
30. Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus). 
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella socialis). 
Song Sparrow (Melospiza fasciata). 
31. American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis). 
Pine Finch (Spinus pinus). 
Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca). 
32. Vesper Sparrow ( Poococtes gramineus). 
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla). 
Yellow-winged Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum passerinus). 
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