TABLE OF CONTEXTS 



JULY 



Birds in a City .... 

 Night Music of the Swamp . 



• TnE Coming of Max . 



• The Silent Language of Animals 

 Insect Music 



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165 



172 

 179 

 132 



]88 



AUGUST 



Gray Days of Birds 195 



Lives of the Lantern Bearers 202 



A Starfish and a Daisy 205 



The Dream of the Yellow-throat 209 



SEPTEMBER 



The Passing of the Flocks 215 



Ghosts of the Earth 220 



Muskrats 223 



Nature's Geometricians 226 



OCTOBER 



Autumn Hunting with a Field Glass 



A Woodchuck and a Grebe 

 •The Voice of Animals .... 

 » The Names of Animals, Frogs, and Fish 



235 

 241 

 245 

 252 



The Dying Year 264 



NOVEMBER 



November's Birds of the Heavens 269 



A Plea for the Skunk 275 



The Lesson of the Wave 278 



We Go A-sponging 282 



DECEMBER 



New Thoughts about Nests . 

 • Lessons from an English Sparrow 

 -The Personality of Trees 



An Owl of the North 



291 

 297 

 303 

 319 



