x CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 SWAMP WHITE-OAK BEND. 



Carolina "Wren. Cardinal-grosbeak as a Mimic. Stranded Fish. 

 Swamp White-oaks. A Cunning Musk-rat. Red-eyed Vireo. 

 Summer Warblers. Singing of Birds. Young Shad. Indian 

 Method of Fishing: Loskiel's Account; Mahlon 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 Wren. 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 Minnows. Helenium Autumnale. 

 Rail-birds. Corn-crake. Kingbirds. Migration of Birds. ^Es- 

 tivation of Animals. Showers. Remarkable 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 AVhite -footed Mice. Etheosto- 

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

 Sudden Changes of the Weather 190 



