| PAGE |
| Mountain Billy under the Gnatcatcher's Oak. | Frontispiece |
| Our Valley | 4 |
| Head of Black-headed Grosbeak | 8 |
| Head of Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 8 |
| In Hot Pursuit (Brewer's Blackbird and Bee-birds) | 13 |
| The Little Lover (Western House Wren) | 20 |
| A Trying Moment (Western House Wren) | 32 |
| Nest of Western Gnatcatcher | 39 |
| Head of California Woodpecker | 66 |
| Head of Red-headed Woodpecker (Eastern) | 66 |
| Jacob and Bairdi visiting the Old Nest Tree | 78 |
| Head of Arizona Hooded Oriole | 89 |
| Head of Baltimore Oriole (Eastern) | 89 |
| Head of California Chewink | 93 |
| Head of Eastern Chewink | 93 |
| Valley Quail and Road-runner | 99 |
| Nest of the Bush-tit | 104 |
| Pocket Nest in an Oak | 108 |
| The Big Sycamore | 114 |
| Along the Line of Sycamores | 124 |
| Head of Black Phoebe | 129 |
| Head of Eastern Phoebe | 129 |
| The Little Hummer on her Bow-knot Nest | 148 |
| The Swing Nest of the Hummer | 157 |
| A Shady Bower | 160 |
| Head of Green-tailed Chewink | 163 |
| The Nosebag Nest (Vigors's Wren) | 173 |
| The Plain Titmouse in her Doorway | 176 |
| Which was the Mother Bird? (Wren-tit and Lazuli Buntings) | 189 |
| The Phainopeplas on the Pepper-tree | 194 |
| The Phainopepla's Nest in the Oak Brush Island | 198 |
| Eucalyptus Avenue, showing Pollarded Trees on the Right | 212 |
| Eucalyptus Wood stored for Market in a Eucalyptus Grove | 214 |
| Mountain Billy Deserted | 220 |
