A Baby Chippy and its Two Big Rose-breasted Grosbeak Cousins . 116 A Chipping Sparrow Family: One Baby Satisfied, the Next Nearly So, the Third Still Hungry. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 117 Cardinal. (_C. W. Beebe_) 134 That Dusky Rascal the Cowbird. (_C. W. Beebe_) 135 The Gorgeous Baltimore Oriole. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 146 How do you Suppose these Young Baltimore Orioles Ever Packed themselves into this Nest? (_A. R. Dugmore_) 147 Young Orchard Orioles. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 150 "There Were Three Crows Sat on a Tree." (_A. R. Dugmore_) 151 Blue Jay on her Nest. (_R. H. Beebe_) 158 {xiv} Five Little Teasers Get No Dinner from Mamma Blue Jay. (_Craig S. Thomas_) 159 Not Afraid of the Camera: Baby Blue Jays Out for their First Airing. (_Craig S. Thomas_) 159 The Dashing Great Crested Flycatcher. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 162 Baby Kingbirds in an Apple Tree. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 163 Four Crested Flycatchers, who Need to Have their Hair Brushed. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 164 Time for these Young Phoebes to Leave the Nest. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 165 Young Phoebes on a Bridge Trestle. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 165 Least Flycatchers in a Rose Bush 176 Nighthawk Resting in the Sunlight. (_John Boyd_) 177 A Chimney Swift at Rest. (_C. W. Beebe_) 180 Hummingbird Pumping Food into her Babies' Crops. (_Julian Burroughs_) 181 Twin Ruby-throats. (_Julian Burroughs_) 181 Our Little Friend Downy. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 192 The Red-headed Woodpecker. (_C. W. Beehe_) 193 The Sapsucker. (_G. C Embody_) 198 Baby Flickers Just Out of their Hole. (_A. R. Dugmore_) 199 {xv} The Flicker. (_C. W. Beebe_) 206 Two Baby Cuckoos on the Rickety Bundle of Sticks that by Courtesy we Call a Nest. (_Verne Morton_) 207 Waiting for Mamma and Fish. (_A. W. Anthony_) 210 Young Belted Kingfisher on his Favourite Snag. (_A. W. Anthony_) 210 Kingfisher on the Look-out for a Dinner. (_A. W. Anthony_) 211 Turkey Buzzard: One of Nature's Best Housecleaners. (_C. W. Beebe_) 226 The Beautiful Little Sparrow Hawk. (_C. W. Beebe_) 227 Father and Mother Barn Owls. (_Silas A. Lottridge_) 232 The Heavenly Twins: Young Barn Owls. (_Silas A. Lottridge_) 233 A Little Screech Owl in the Sunlight Where Only a Photographer Could Find him. (_C. W. Beehe_) 236