Bird studies with a camera

by Frank M. Chapman

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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1.	Gannet, Murres, Puffins, and Razorbilled Auks	[Frontispiece]
	Tailpiece. Young Baltimore Oriole	[5]
	Initial. Long-focus camera and telephoto lens	[6]
2.	Lens test No. 1	[14]
3.	Enlargement of the bird in test No. 1	[15]
4.	Lens test No. 2	[16]
5.	Enlargement of bird in test No. 2	[17]
6.	Lens test No. 3	[18]
7.	Enlargement of bird in test No. 3	[19]
	Initial. Young Great-crested Flycatcher	[26]
8.	Spring	[27]
9.	Summer	[27]
10.	Autumn	[28]
11.	Winter—four pictures (Nos. 8–11) from the same point of view	[28]
12.	Nest locality of five species	[29]
13.	Nesting site, nest, and young of Marsh Hawk	[30]
14.	Young Marsh Hawks and nest	[31]
15.	Young Great-crested Flycatcher	[32]
16.	Young Baltimore Orioles and nest	[33]
17.	Wood Thrush on nest	[34]
18.	Chestnut-sided Warbler on nest	[35]
19.	Catbird scolding	[37]
	Initial. “Fairview”	[40]
20.	House Sparrows and Junco	[41]
21.	Junco	[42]
22.	Female House Sparrow and nest	[43]
23.	Screech Owl	[44]
	Initial. Chickadee	[47]
24.	Chickadee on ground	[49]
25.	Chickadee taking piece of bread	[50]
26.	A bird in the hand	[51]
27.	Chickadee at nest hole	[54]
28.	Chickadee at nest hole	[55]
29.	A Chickadee family	[58]
30.	A Chickadee family	[59]
	Initial. Red-winged Blackbird	[62]
31.	Least Bittern’s nesting site	[64]
32.	Least Bittern’s nest and eggs	[66]
33.	Least Bittern mimicking surroundings	[67]
34.	Least Bittern mimicking surroundings	[68]
35.	Young Red-winged Blackbirds	[71]
36.	Least Bittern eating her eggs	[73]
37.	Least Bittern on nest	[74]
	Initial. Where the Night Herons feed	[76]
38.	Five Night Herons’ nests in swamp maple	[79]
39.	A view in the Heron rookery	[80]
40.	Night Heron feeding	[81]
41.	Young Night Herons in nest	[82]
42.	Young Night Herons leaving nest	[83]
43.	Young Night Herons on branches	[84]
44.	Great Blue Heron, nests and young	[88]
	Initial. Tree Swallows on wires	[89]
45.	Hackensack marshes in August	[91]
46.	Marsh mallows	[93]
47.	Wild rice	[94]
48.	Tree Swallows on wires	[97]
49.	Tree Swallows in tree	[100]
50.	Tree Swallows on wire and at pile	[102]
51.	Swallows in the road	[104]
	Initial. A corner of Penikese	[106]
52.	Nesting site, nest, and three eggs of Common Tern	[110]
53.	Tern hovering above nest	[111]
54.	Nest and eggs of Tern on upland	[112]
55.	Tern’s nest and eggs in drift débris	[113]
56.	Young Tern hiding on rocky beach	[114]
57.	Young Tern hiding in the grass	[115]
58.	Tern alighting on nest	[116]
59.	Tern on hillside nest	[117]
60.	Tern’s nest and hatching eggs in seaweed	[118]
61.	Tern about to feed young	[119]
62.	Tern brooding young	[120]
63.	Tern on beach nest	[121]
64.	Tern on beach nest	[121]
65.	Tern on upland nest	[122]
66.	Young Terns about four days old	[123]
67.	Young Tern about a week old	[124]
68.	Young Tern, second plumage appearing	[124]
69.	Young Tern, further advance of second plumage	[125]
70.	Young Tern, stage before flight	[126]
	Initial. A Percé codfisher	[128]
71.	Percé Rock from the north	[131]
72.	Percé Rock from the southeast	[134]
73.	Splitting cod on Percé beach	[136]
74.	Young Savanna Sparrow	[137]
75.	Gannet cliffs of Bonaventure	[140]
76.	Cornel or bunchberry	[142]
77.	A ledge of nesting Gannets	[144]
	Initial. Grosse Isle	[146]
78.	Nest and eggs of Fox Sparrow	[148]
79.	Young Guillemots	[150]
	Initial. The Bird Rock light	[152]
80.	Bird Rock from the southwest	[153]
81.	North side of Bird Rock	[156]
82.	A corner of the Rock	[160]
83.	The landing at the base of the Rock	[164]
84.	The landing on top of the Rock	[165]
85.	Kittiwakes and young on nests	[168]
86.	The lighthouse, keeper’s dwelling, and other buildings	[169]
87.	Razorbilled Auks and “Ringed” Murre	[170]
88.	Puffins	[172]
89.	Murre’s egg	[174]
90.	Young Murres and egg	[175]
91.	Kittiwakes and young on nests	[176]
92.	Entrance to Puffin’s burrow	[177]
93.	Puffin’s nest and egg	[178]
94.	Young Puffin on nest	[179]
95.	Leach’s Petrel on nest	[180]
96.	Young Leach’s Petrel with nesting material	[181]
97.	Young Gannet	[182]
98.	Gannets	[183]
99.	Gannets on nests	[186]
100.	Gannet on nest	[188]
	Initial. Young Pelicans in nest tree	[191]
101.	Pelicans on ground nests	[197]
102.	Interviewing a group of young Pelicans	[198]
103.	Among the Pelicans	[199]
104.	Head and pouch of Pelican	[200]
105.	Pelican’s pouch from above	[201]
106.	Newly hatched Pelicans and nests	[206]
107.	Young Pelican in tree nest	[208]
108.	Young Pelican, downy stage	[209]
109.	Young Pelican, wing quills appearing	[211]
110.	Young Pelicans, stage preceding flight	[212]

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