LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FAGS 



Beach Plum Bushes at Plum Island . . 80 



Baybbrry in Winter . . . 82 



HuDSONiA and Advancing Dune 82 



Dinner in the Lee of the Pines „ .... 84 



The Road to the Lighthouse ... 94 



The Dunes in Summer . . , . . 102 



The Dunes in Winter . . . 102 



Tree Swallows Investigating a Birdhouse 112 



Nests op Eave Swallows on an Old Barn 112 



An Angler Fish Thrown Up on the Beach 126 

 Tracks of Herring Gull Made on Alighting on the 



Beach . . 126 



Herring Gulls in the Ipswich Dunes 128 



The Wreck of the Sand Schooner . . 136 



The Wreck a Year Later 136 

 Courtship Pose of Shelldeake. — Courtship Poses 



OF Whistler 146 



Watching Water Birds and Seals from the Wreck 156 



Skull of Dog and of Seal. — Grass Balls . 156 



Group of Hair Seals from Ipswich . 164 



Harbor Seals . . 168 



" CeTUS CaPILLATUS " AND " MONSTRUM Marinum " 182 



A Creek in the Marshes 188 



Cutting the Maesh Hat . - - ... . 192 



Bringing in the Marsh Hat ... 194 

 Harvesting the Marsh Hat . . . .196 



Haystacks in the Broad Marsh . . 198 



High Tide. — Taken bt the Light of the Full Moon 200 

 A Staddle in the Marsh 

 Low Tide 



High Tide 



Marsh Islands 



The Marsh in Winter 



200 

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 204 



The Marshes and Hog Island, High Tide . . . 210 



