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and when you have seen all of the lowly musicians you will be a 

 fairly accomplished naturalist. Let the discovery of " Who 's Who 

 among the Frogs " this spring be one of your first outdoor studies. 

 The picture shows you Pickering's hyla, blowing his bagpipe. 

 Arbutus: trailing arbutus (Epigcea repens), sometimes called 

 ground-laurel, and mayflower, fishflower (in New Jersey). 

 hepatwa: liver-leaf (Hepatica triloba). 



Spice-bush : wild allspice, fever-bush, Benjamin-bush (Benzoin 

 cestivale}. 



Wood-pussy the skunk, who comes out of his winter den very 

 early in spring, and whose scent is one of the characteristic odors 

 of a New England spring. 



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Ail white and still : The whole poem will be found on the last page 

 of " Winter," the second book in this series. 



tnllium: the wake-robin. Read Mr. Burroughs's book "Wake- 

 Robin," the first of his outdoor books. 



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phoebe . See the chapter called " The Palace in the Pig-Pen." 

 bloodroot : Sanguinaria canadensis, See the picture on this page. 

 So named because of the red-orange juice in the root-stalks, used 

 by the Indians as a stain. 



marsh-marigolds : The more common but incorrect name is " cow- 

 slip." The marsh-marigold is Caltha palustris and belongs with 

 the buttercup and wind-flower to the Crowfoot Family. The 

 cowslip, a species of primrose, is a European plant and belongs 

 to the Primrose Family. 



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woolly-bear : caterpillar of the Isabella tiger moth, the common 



caterpillar, brown in the middle with black ends, whose hairs 



look as if they had been clipped, so even are they. 



mourning-cloak: See picture, page 77 of "Winter," the second 



book of this series. The antiopa butterfly. 



j uncos : the common slate-colored "snowbirds." 



witch-hazel: See picture, page 28 of "The Fall of the Year"; 



read description of it on pages 31-33 of the same volume. 



bluets : or " innocence " (Houstonia ccerulea). 



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the Delaware ? the Delaware River, up which they come in order 



