CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 AT LINDEN BEND. 



Characteristic Trees.— Water-thrushes.— Connecticut Warblers.— 

 Natty Fairthorne's Wild-goose Chase.— Traditions concerning the 

 Indians. — Song-thrush. — Quarrels among Birds. — Redstarts.— 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatchers. —Dead Trees.— Epidemic of Yel- 

 low-fever, in 1793.— Traces of Indian Villages.— Yellow-breasted 

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CHAPTER II. 

 BTJZZAED'S BEST. 



Miles Overfleld.— Weather Predictions. — Animal Weather -lore.— 

 Musk-rats. — Doctor's Creek. — Characteristic Trees.— Kingfishers. 

 — Little Green Herons. — Night-herons. — Color-sense of Birds. — 

 Recognition of Birds of Prey by small Birds. — Turkey-buzzards. 

 — Wild Grape-vines. — Yellow -throated Vireo. — Permanent Mat- 

 ing among Birds. — The Turk's-cap Lily. — August Flowers. — 

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CHAPTER III. 

 WATSON'S CEOSSING. 



Autumn Leaves. — Rocks. — Bowlders. — Faxon's Brook. — August 

 Bloom. — Hopniss : Indian's Use of it. — Flowers. — Old Wharves. 

 — Story of Oconio's Leap. — Anecdote of a Summer Warbler. — Of 

 a King-rail. — Water-snake. — Traces of Indian Villages, Trails, 

 and their Handiwork. — Palaeolithic Man. — Eskimos. — Blooming 

 Plants.— Red Admiral Butterfly.— Migration of Milk- weed But- 

 terfly. — Dragon - flies. — Crosswicks Sea - serpent. — Cuckoos. — 



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