Haunt of the Toad [see p. 53] Frontispiece 

 The Great-eyed Snapping-beetle . vi 

 The "Bull's-eye" Moth. Saturnia 



A March Landscape 



The Calla f^. 



The Earliest Wild Flower . 



Maple-seed Antics 



A Wintry Bit 



A Spring Morning . 



Peeping Frogs Cricket and Pick- 



ering Frog ........ 8 



A Spring Soloist ....... 1 1 



The Spring Peeper in October . .12 

 Clicking Pine-cones ...... 14 



Jumping Cones ....... 15 



A Cone in its Bed of Seeds . . . 16 

 Squirrel and Cone ...... 1 8 



" By the snow-bank's edges cold" . 19 

 Anemone Nemorosa, Claytonia, and 



Whitlow-grass ....... 21 



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 3 2 



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 

 Tail-piece 47 



