xvi List of Illustrations 
FACING PACE 
One Little Sandpiper. {R. H. Beebe) . . 259 
The Coot. {C. W. Beebe) . . .259 
The Little Green Heron, the Smallest and 
Most Abundant Member of his Tribe. 
{W. P. Hopkins). .... 260 
Half-grown Little Green Herons on Dress 
Parade. (John M. Schreck) . . .261 
Black-crowned Night Heron Rising from a 
Morass. {Alfred J. Might) . . , 26S 
Canada Geese. {Geo. D. Bartlett) . . 269 
The Feather-lined Nest of a Wild Duck. . 272 
Sea Gulls in the Wake of a Garbage Scow 
Cleansing New York Harbour of Floating 
Refuse . . . . . . *273 
