LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Full-page Plates. ^.^,„„ FACING PLATE PAGE I. — Barn, Cliflf, Bank, and Tree Swallows Frontispiece II.— Pied-billed Grebe 2 III. — Loon 6 IV.— Herring Gull ; Petrels 10 V. — Wood Duck ; Pintails ; Mallards : Green-winged Teal ; Blue-winged Teal ; Canada Geese . . 14 VI. — Little Green Heron ; Black-crowned Night Heron ; Great Blue Heron 18 VII. — American Bittern ; Sora 22 VIII. — American Coot; Clapper Rail 26 IX.— Wilson's Snipe 30 X. — Common Tern; Semipalmated Sandpiper; Semipal- mated Plover 34 XL— Spotted Sandpiper ; Killdeer 38 XIL— Ruffed Grouse 42 XIII.— Mourning Dove 46 XIV.— Red-shouldered Hawk . . . ... . .50 XV.— Marsh Hawk 52 XVI.— Sparrow Hawk 54 XVIL— Sharp-shinned Hawk 56 XVIII. — American Osprey 58 XIX.— Short-eared Owl 60 XX.— Screech Owl 62 XXL— Barred Owl 64 XXIL— Yellow-billed Cuckoo 66 XXIII.— Belted Kingfisher 68 XXIV.— Downy Woodpecker 70 XXV.— Red-headed Woodpecker 84 XXVI.— Flicker 86 XXVII.— Nighthawk ; Whip-poor-will 88 xiii