LIST or FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PACING 

 PAGS 



Young foxes Frontispiece 



The muskrat 3 



Pickering's hyla 6 



The bullfrog 31 



The home of the red salamander 47 



The banks of the Pemigewasset, the home of the black- 

 billed cuckoo .... .... 85 



The yellowhammer .87 



The bittern .... 98 



The Pemigewasset River, at Blair's bridge, and the Shel- 

 drake — Merganser serrator 105 



The wolverene 114 



The mink 149 



The otter 157 



"A particularly clever skunk" 173 



At the twilight hour, Mt. Choeorua, White Mountains . 183 



Black bear 191 



The raccoon 203 



" Out of harm's way, treed " 307 



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