CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 AT LINDEN BEND. 



Characteristic Trees. "Water-thrushes. Connecticut Warblers. 

 Natty Fairthorne's Wild-goose Chase. Traditions concerning the 

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

 Yellow-bellied Flycatchers. Dead Trees. Epidemic of Yel- 

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

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CHAPTER II. 

 BUZZARD'S REST. 



Miles Overfield. 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 Vireo. Permanent Mat- 

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

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CHAPTER III. 

 WATSON'S CROSSING. 



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

 Bloom. Hopniss : 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. Palaeolithic Man. Eskimos. Blooming 

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

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



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