CONTENTS 



PAOB 



I. Ways of Nature 1 



II. Bird-Songs 29 



III. Nature with Closed Doobs ... 47 



IV. The Wit of a Duck .... 63 

 V. Factors in Animal Life .... 69 



VI. Animal Communication ... 87 



VII. Devious Paths 109 



VIII. What do Animals Know? . . . 123 



IX. Do Animals Think and Reflect? . . 161 



X. A Pin6h of Salt 173 



XI. The Literary Treatment of Nature . 191 



XII. A Beaver's Eeason .... 209 



XIII. Eeading the Book of Nature . . . 231 



XIV. Gathered by the Way 



I. the training of wild animals . . 239 



II. AN astonished PORCUPINE . . . 242 



III. BIRDS AND STRINGS .... 246 



IV. MIMICRY 248 



V. THE COLORS OF FRUITS .... 261 



VI. INSTINCT 254 



Vn. THE ROBIN 261 



viii. the crow 265 



Index 273 



