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Harvestmen Rose Spiders Earwig on Spider's web 

 Numbers of webs in gardens Cobwebs useful to 

 birds in nest-building . . . , . . 59 



LETTER XI 



Fine Weather Weeds Floating Vegetation Scum 

 Spiders Gnat amongst Spider-webs Swallows 

 Young Swallows at roost Reindeer loose in Garden 

 Circus Clown Elephants . . . . . 66 



LETTER XII 



Seeds Seed-cases Picturesqueness of Seed-pods Lily 

 Seeds Crown Imperials Violets Nigella Snap- 

 dragon Swallows Owl's Feather . . s. 7: 



LETTER XIII 



Kingfisher Hovering of Kingfisher Destructiveness of 

 Birds Heavy Rains Fall of Leaves Preparations 

 for Winter amongst Worms, Snails, and Birds Stork's- 

 bill Seed : its moving power Mushrooms Supersti- 

 tion as to Mushrooms Green Woodpecker J. C. 

 Hook, R.A. 80 



LETTER XIV 



Observations on Rain-drops on the surface of leaves Heavy 

 Rain Toads Frogs Toad in Greenhouse Venom 

 of Toads Professor Buckland's experiments . . 89 



LETTER XV 



Birds : their ways of regarding Man Swallows Robins 



Sparrows Blackbirds Thrushes Starlings Tomtits 96 



