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PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
CHAPTER
HALF-TONE CUTS
Facing Page
A ferocious young Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Gannets nesting on the cliffs of Bonaventure Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
A male Plumbeous Gnatcatcher feeding young . . . . . . . . . . 38
A mountain Bluebird family whose home has been destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Young Robins quarreling at their bath . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Feeding station for birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Snowy Egret shot on its feeding grounds . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Farallone Cormorants and White Pelicans on a Government Bird Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Window "Cafeteria" at home of Mrs. Granville Pike . . . . . . 128
A Christmas dinner for the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
An Egret, bearing "aigrettes," in attendance on her young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Egret brooding on a Florida island owned and guarded by the Audubon Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
The Downy Woodpecker is fond of suet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Members of a Junior Audubon class at Fergus Falls, Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
A California Hospital for injured birds . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Preparing for the coming of the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
LINE CUTS IN TEXT
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The fox that followed the footsteps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Heads and feet of various birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sample page of reporting-blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The umbrella blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Nest of the ruby-throated hummingbird . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Bald Eagle's eyrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Grebe or "water witch" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Canada Geese decoys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
A greedy young Cowbird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Migration routes of some North American birds . . . . . . . . 71
Lighthouses cause the death of many birds . . . . . . . . . . 76
Tired migrating birds often alight on ships . . . . . . . . . 79
Grouse "budding" in an apple tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Cuckoo raiding a tent of caterpillars . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Screech owl and its prey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Passenger Pigeons are now extinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
The Great Auk, now extinct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Terns formerly sought by the feather trade . . . . . . . . . . 144
Crowned Pigeon that furnishes the "goura" of the feather trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Migrative birds are protected by the Government . . . . . . . 172
The grotesque Wood Ibis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Hungry young Egrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Cemented holes shut out the Chickadee . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Gourds and boxes for Martins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
A bird bath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Coloring of birds upon outline drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 257
THE BIRD STUDY BOOK
FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE BIRDS
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