CONTENTS. 



Preface I 



Life and Its Conditions 9 



Plants that Feed on Insects 16 



Slime-Animals 32 



Primitive Lasso-Throwers 36 



Five-Fingered Jack on the Oyster 41 



Earth-worms in History 48 



Fiddler- and Hermit-Crabs 70 



Funnel- Web Builder 77 



Book- Lovers 86 



You- ee-up 90 



Tower-Building Cicada. . 95 



Honey-Dew 104 



Milch-Cows of the Ants 108 



Living Artillery in 



Bright and Shining Ones 115 



Queen of American Silk-Spinners 121 



Basket-Carriers 126 



Honey- Producing Caterpillars 132 



Hibernating Butterflies 144 



Leaf-Cutter Bee 149 



Battle Between Ants 153 



Nest-Building Fishes 158 



Slippery as an Eel 1 68 



Rana and Bufo 1 74 



Our Natural Enemies 186 



House-Bearing Reptiles 198 



Summer Duck 204 



American Woodcock 210 



Piping Plover 218 



Bob White 222 



Ruffed Grouse 230 



An Old Acquaintance 240 



American Osprey 245 



