Haunt of the Toad [see p. 53] Frontispiece 

 The Great-eyed Snapping-beetle . vi 

 The "Bull's-eye" Moth. Saturnia 



lo xx 



A March Landscape I 



The Calla 2 



The Earliest Wild Flower ... 3 



Maple-seed Antics 4 



A Wintry Bit 5 



A Spring Morning 7 



Peeping Frogs Cricket and Pick- 

 ering Frog 



A Spring Soloist 



The Spring Peeper in October . 



Clicking Pine-cones 



Jumping Cones 



A Cone in its Bed of Seeds . . . 



Squirrel and Cone 



" By the snow-bank's edges cold " . 



Anemone Nemorosa, Claytonia, and 



Whitlow-grass 



A Nook in the Woods Dutchman's- 

 breeches, Rue - anemones, Liver- 

 worts, and Early Everlasting . . 23 



" Squirrel Corn " 24 



A Maple-seed Masquerade ... 25 



Sprouting Acorns 26 



Beech Babes and Clover Infants . 28 



Antiopa Butterflies 30 



Musical Wing of Antiopa .... 31 



Antiopa Caterpillars 32 



The "Coral-wing" Locust 35 



The Fairy Shrimp 37 



The Crackles 38 



The Brown Thrasher 39 



The "Drummer" 40 



The Meadow Lark 41 



The Great Ragweed 43 



The Small Ragweed 44 



Tenacious Oak-leaves 45 



A Prehistoric Vase-maker .... 46 



21 Tail-piece 47 



