X TABLE OF CONTENTS 



JULY 



PAoa 



BiBDS jN A Cut 166 



Night Music of the Swamp 172 



The Comhto of Mak 179 



The Silent Lanouaoe of Animals 182 



Insect Music 188 



AUGUST 



Gbat Days of Bibds 195 



Lives of the Lantebn Beabebs .,..,. 202 



A Stabfish and a Daist ■. . 205 



The Dbeam of the Yellow-thboat 209 



SEPTEMBER 



The Fassino of the Flocks 215 



Ghosts of the Eabth 220 



muskeats 223 



Natcbe's Geometbicians 226 



OCTOBER 



Autumn Hunting with a Field Glass .... 235 



A WOODCHUCK AND A GBEBE 241 



The Voice of Animals 245 



The Names of Animals, Fbogs, and Fish .... 252 



The Dtino Yeab 264 



NOVEMBER 



Notembeb's Bibds of the Heavens 269 



A Plea fob the Skunk 275 



The Lesson of the Wave 278 



We Go A-sponginq 282 



DECEMBER 



New Thoughts about Nests 291 



Lessons fbom an English Sfabbow 297 



The Pebsonalitt of Tbees 303 



An Owl of the Nobth ..,«..,.. 319 



