CONTENTS 



MAY 



A May Night's Star Pageant The Kindling Beech Animals and 

 Morality On the Sea Steep The May Sky Rookeries of 

 Romance The Aura of May Trapping the Bird Traveller 

 Distributing the Travellers Apple Blossom and Honey- 

 flow The Phizzing Ant-hill Anodyne of Dawn A Willow 

 Wren's Nest Why Butterfly and Sun ? Oaks of Sway- 

 Queen of the Gold Comb Professional Flycatchers . . ico 



JUNE 



Cirrus Days Butterfly Railway Banks The Butterfly's Water- 

 proof Wcod Warbler's Song-flutter Insect Taming The 

 Fritillary's Flirtation The Completion of June Architect 

 and Artifice The Goldfinch's Nest A Butterfly on the 

 Tomb Spells of the June Eve The Ghost Moth's Ecstasy . 1 30 



JULY 



The Enchanted Eve The Moths' Dance A Trout's Recreation 

 Reasoning Process in Fish Cow Parsnips Butterflies' 

 Beauty Show A Butterfly's Banquet Attarof Hay Harvest 

 Witchery of July A Celestial Choir Spright of the Swallows 

 The Bed of the Swifts The Wood Sylph The Stoat and 

 the Shrike Copse Grasses A Cabbage - white Stance 

 Wisdom unden Water Tragedy of a Trout . . -155 



AUGUST 



Harvest Time The Butterfly's Dressmaker Masks of Colour and 

 Form The Rookery at Dusk The Pearl Skipper Scenes of 

 Harvest The Memory of a Butterfly The Starling's Return 

 Butterflies and Mimicry Birds in August Driving out 

 the Drones .188 



SEPTEMBER 



The Storm The Large Heath Butterfly The Butterfly's Night- 

 dress A Mouse's Dessert At Fall A Badger's Haunt 



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