LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAGB 



Beach Plum Bushes at Plum Island .... 80 

 Bayberry in Winter 82 



HUDSONIA AND ADVANCING DuNE 82 



Dinner in the Lee of the Pines 84 



The Road to the Lighthouse 94 



The Dunes in Summer 102 



The Dunes in Winter 102 



Tree Swallows Investigating a Birdhouse . . 112 

 Nests of Eave Swallows on an Old Barn . .112 

 An Angler Fish Thrown Up on the Beach . 128 



Tracks of Herring Gull Made on Alighting on the 



Beach 126 



Herring Gulls in the Ipswich Dunes .... 128 

 The Wreck of the Sand Schooner . . . .136 



The Wreck a Year Later 136 



Courtship Pose of Shelldrake. — Courtship Poses 



of Whistler 146 



Watching Water Birds and Seals from the Wreck 156 

 Skull of Dog and of Seal. — Grass Balls . .156 

 Group of Hair Seals from Ipswich . . . .164 



Harbor Seals 168 



" Cetus Capillatus " AND " MoNSTRUM Marinum " . 182 

 A Creek in the Marshes . . . . . . . 188 



Cutting the Marsh Hay 192 



Bringing in the Marsh Hay 194 



Harvesting the Marsh Hay 196 



Haystacks in the Broad Marsh 198 



High Tide. — Taken by the Light of the Full Moon 200 



A Staddle in the Marsh 200 



Low Tide 202 



High Tide 202 



Marsh Islands . . . ^ 204 



The ^VIarsh in Winter 204 



The M.^shes and Hog Island, High Tide . . .210 



