X CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 SWAMP WniTE-OAK BEND. 



Carolina "SVren. — Cardinal-grosbeak as a Mimic. — Stranded Fish. — 

 Swamp White-oaks. — A Cunning Musk-rat. — Eed-ej^ed Vireo. — 

 Summer Warblers. ^Singing of Birds. — Young Shad. — Indian 

 Method of Fishing: Loskiel's Account; Mahloa Stacy's Account. 

 — Anecdote of a Cat-bird. — Dodders. — Blackberries. — Red-bellied 

 Woodpecker.— Traill's Flycatcher Page 93 



CHAPTER V. 

 DEAD WILLOW BEND. 



Dew. — Spring Flowers. — Audubon's Wood-wren. — Water-snake. — 

 Anecdote of AVren. — Willows. — Curious Character met with at 

 the Creek.— Greening of the Willows. — Waste-land. — Bitterns. — 

 Sense of Direction of many Animals. — Coxcomb Grass. — Cove- 

 inlets. — Song - sparrows. — Turn of the Tide. — Indian Relics. — 

 Large Fish: their former greater Abundance. — Tulip-trees. — Bea- 

 ver-tree, or Magnolia. — Black Snake. — Box -tortoise. — Habits of 

 Young Box-tortoise 116 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE TWIN ISLANDS. 



Old Houses and Furniture. — Florida Gallinule. — Mastodon Bones. 

 — Quicksands: Mink's Opinion thereof. — "Boiling" Springs. — 

 Clay. — Fossil-wood. — Amber. — Gold Claimed to have been Found 

 by the Indians. — Ornamented Minnow^s. — Ilelenium Autumnale. — 

 Rail-birds. — Corn-crake. — Kino;birds. — Migration of Birds. — ^s- 

 tivation of Animals. — Showers. — Rem.arkable Rainfall, and its 

 Effects 153 



CHAPTER VII. 

 MILL CREEK. 



A Lonely Sand-piper. — Tree-climbing: its Merits and Disadvantages. 

 — Wood-tattlers. — A Nest of these Birds destroyed by a Bull-frog. 

 — Meadow-mice. — Bush-nests of White -footed Mice. — Etheosto- 

 moids.— Mythical Fish described by Early Writers.— Bill-fish.— 

 Sudden Changes of the Weather 190 



