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John James Audubon: See note to Chapter II. 



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Gilbert White: See note to Chapter VI on barn owls. 

 His quaint book should be known to you all. 



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Thoreau: the Concord naturalist, author of "Walden" and 

 other outdoor books which you will read sometime. He was 

 born 1817, died 1872. Pronounced Tho ro. 



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Tarn Edwards, an old Scotch naturalist whose life has been 

 written in a book called "The Life of a Scotch Naturalist" by 

 Samuel Smiles. 



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Centipedes: a poisonous "worm" though not a true worm. 

 It is one of the arthropoda (jointed legged creatures) be- 

 longing to the class myriapoda (many footed) and to the fam- 

 ily chilopoda (ki lop o da) so called from its having many 

 legs. Centiped means hundred footed, though of course it has 

 not so many as that. It grows to be nearly a foot long in 

 tropical countries; and its bite is very painful. 



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Okechobee: do you know what the land surrounding this 

 lake is called, and why 1 ? 



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He had written a book: the book is called "A Popular 

 Zoology." 



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A lesson in mounting: that is in "stuffing" birds and 

 mounting them on their perches. 



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Yellow-billed cuckoo: the "rain-crow." 



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Cow-bird: you can tell them from other black-birds by 



