x CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 SWAMP WHITE-OAK BEND. 



Carolina 'Wren. — Cardinal-grosbeak as a Mimic. — Stranded Fish. — 

 Swamp White-oaks. — A Cunning Musk-rat. — Eed-eyed Vireo. — 

 Summer "Warblers. — Singing of Birds. — Young Shad. — Indian 

 Method of Fishing: Loskiel's Account; Mahlon Stacy's Account. 

 — Anecdote of a Cat-bird.— Dodders.— Blackberries.— Red-bellied 

 Woodpecker.— Traill's Flycatcher Page 93 



CHAPTER V. 

 DEAD WILLOW BEND. 



Dew. — Spring Flowers. — Audubon's Wood-wren. — Water-snake. — 

 Anecdote of Wren. — Willows.— Curious Character met with at 

 the Creek.— Greening of the Willows. — Waste-land. — Bitterns.— 

 Sense of Direction of many Animals. — Coxcomb Grass. — Cove- 

 inlets. — Song - sparrows. — Turn of the Tide. — Indian Relics. — 

 Large Fish: their former greater Abundance. — Tulip-trees. — Bea- 

 ver-tree, or Magnolia. — Black Snake. — Box-tortoise. — Habits of 

 Young Box-tortoise 116 



CHAPTER VI. 

 THE TWIN ISLANDS. 



Old Houses and Furniture. — Florida Gallinule. — Mastodon Bones. 

 — Quicksands: Mink's Opinion thereof. — "Boiling" Springs. — 

 Clay. — Fossil-wood. — Amber. — Gold Claimed to have been Found 

 by the Indians. — Ornamented Minnows. — Helenium Autumnale. — 

 Rail-birds. — Corn-crake. — Kingbirds. — Migration of Birds. — ^Es- 

 tivation of Animals. — Showers. — Remarkable Rainfall, and its 

 Effects 153 



CHAPTER VII. 

 MILL CREEK. 



A Lonely Sand-piper.— -Tree-climbing: its Merits and Disadvantages. 

 — Wood-tattlers. — A Nest of these Birds destroyed by a Bull-frog. 

 — Meadow-mice. — Bush-nests of White -footed Mice. — Etheosto- 

 moids. — Mythical Fish described by Early Writers. — Bill-fish. — 

 Sudden Changes of the Weather 190 



