FOURTH WEEK] 



March 



flycatcher and carried off to be added to its nesting mate- 

 rial. 



When the broods of twenty to thirty young garter 

 snakes start out in life to hunt for themselves, then woe 

 to the earthworms, for it is upon them that the little 

 serpents chiefly feed. 



Six or seven of our native species of snakes lay eggs, 

 usually depositing them under the bark of rotten logs, or 

 in similar places, where they are left to hatch by the 

 heat of the sun or by that of the decaying vegetation. It 

 is interesting to gather these leathery shelled eggs and 

 watch them hatch, and it is surprising how similar to 

 each other some of the various species are when they 

 emerge from the shell. 



HEPATICAS. 



