Illustrations 



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Mother Phoebe and her little ones . Frontispiece 



FACING 

 PAGH 



A squirrel in the door of his storehouse 46 

 Chickadee's nest in the top of a hollow 



stump 52 



A ruined bird house 56 



Portuguese man-o'-war 72 



A copperhead, drawing himself into a coil 94 

 A twig-like walking-stick insect . . .118 

 A bluffing sphinx caterpillar . . . .124 

 " That harmless braggart, the hog-nosed 



snake" 128 



Two opossums feigning death .... 134 

 Sapsucker work on an apple tree . . .148 

 Nests of wild eave, or cliff swallows . .192 

 The winter castle of the muskrat . . . 204 

 The changeable tree-frog . . . , . 220 



Phoebe's nest 246 



"If we keep quite still, sister, he won't 



see us on this old gray log " 

 xi 



