CONTENTS 



I. The Falling Leaves 1 



II. The Pleasures of a Naturalist 11 



III. The Flight of Birds 32 



IV. Bird Intimacies 39 

 V. A Midsummer Idyl 69 



VI. Near Views of Wild Life 79 



VII. With Roosevelt at Pine Knot 101 



VIII. A Strenuous Holiday 109 



IX. Under Genial Skies 127 



I. A Sun-Blessed Land 127 



II. Lawn Birds 129 

 HI. Silken Chambers 132 

 IV. The Desert Note 143 



V. Sea-Dogs 148 



X. A Sheaf of Nature Notes 1«'>2 



I. Nature's Wireless 152 



II. Maeterlinck on the Bee 156 



III. Odd or Even 163 



IV. Why and How 165 

 V. An Insoluble Problem 167 



VI. A Live World 169 



VII. Darwinism and the War 172 



VHI. The Robin 175 



IX. The Weasel 177 



X. Misinterpreting Nature 179 



XL Natural Sculpture 181 



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