8 List of Illustrations. 



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Summer Green Snake 1 95 



Water Snake 196 



Common Box Tortoise 201 



Summer Ducks and Young 206 



American Woodcock 214 



Female Piping Plover 220 



Home of Bob White 225 



Ruffed Grouse in Spring-time 235 



Mexican Wild Turkey 241 



Nest" of American Osprey 247 



Female Turkey Buzzard Dining 259 



Nest of the Robin 264 



Red-winged Blackbird's Nest 266 



Double Nest of Orchard Oriole 268 



Female Baltimore Oriole 270 



Acadian Flycatchers 272 



Long-billed Marsh Wrens * . 274 



Golden-Crowned Kinglets 275 



Lace Hammock of Parula Warbler 276 



Three-story Nest of Yellow Warbler 278 



Saw-whet Owl and Chickaree Squirrel 282 



Hackee, or Chipping Squirrel 287 



My Dog Frisky . . * 292 



Tom on Duty 297 



Jack at Dinner 305 



Australian at Home 311 



Representative Life of Western Asia . 319 



Seedling of Winter Grape 325 



Tip of Radicle of Seedling Maple 331 



Wonderful Equine Intelligence 347 



Papier-Mache Palace of the Hornet 353 



Unsolicited and Unlooked-for Kindness 357 



Exhibition of Grandeur. 378 



Four Orphaned Robins 389 



Mated for Life 396 



Evidence of Conjugal Affection 400 



Life in the Primordial Sea 410 



Carboniferous Times 412 



Mesozoic Flora and Fauna 415 



Palaeolithic Men Attacking Cave Bear 448 



Era of Mind and Heart 462 



