CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 AT LINDEN BEND. 



Characteristic Trees. — Water-tliriisbes. — Connecticut Warblers. — 

 Natty Fairtliorne's Wild-goose Chase.— Traditions concerning the 

 Indians. — Song-thrush. — Quarrels among Birds. — Redstarts. — 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatchers. —Dead Trees. — Epidemic of Yeb 

 low-fever, in 1793.— Traces of Indian Villages.— Yellow-breasted 

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CHAPTER II. 

 BUZZARD'S EEST. 



Miles Overficld.— Weather Predictions. — Animal Weather -lore.— 

 Musk-rats. — Doctor's Creek.— Characteristic Trees.— Kingfishers. 

 — Little Green Herons. — Night-herons. — Color-sense of Birds. — 

 Recognition of Birds of Prey by small Birds.— Turkey-buzzards. 

 — Wild Grape-vines. — Yellow -throated Yireo. — Permanent Mat- 

 ing among Birds.— The Turk's-cap Lily. —August Flowers.— 

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CHAPTER IIL 

 WATSON'S CROSSING. 

 Autumn Leaves. — Rocks. —Bowlders. —Faxon's Brook. —August 

 Bloom.— Ilopniss : Indian's Use of it. — Flowers.— Old Wharves. 

 —Story of Oconio's Leap.— Anecdote of a Summer Warbler.— Of 

 a King- rail. —Water -snake. — Traces of Indian Villages, Trails, 

 and their Handiwork.— Paleolithic Man.— Eskimos.— Blooming 

 Plants.— Red Admiral Butterfly.— Migration of Milk-weed But- 

 terfly. — Dragon - flies. — Crosswicks Sea - serpent. — Cuckoos. — 

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