Contents. xv 



CHAPTER VII. 



PAGE 



Discomforts of Sleighing during Thaws — Effects of unusually Cold 

 Seasons on Winter Migratory Birds — Winter-breeding Birds — 

 Crossbills and their Varieties of Plumage — Possible Causes of 

 the Crossing of the Mandibles and bending of the Beaks of 

 certain Birds — Deformed Beaks of Birds — Habits and Modes of 

 Nesting of the White-winged Crossbill — The Pine Bullfinch — 

 Redpoll — Snow Bunting — Snow Bird — Familiarity of Forest- 

 loving Birds — Partridges and their unsuspicious Ways — 

 Partridge Shooting — Dogs trained to Point at Partridges in 

 Trees - - - - - - - - - - 159 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Directions and Causes of the Migrations of the Birds of Boreal 

 America, and Laws bearing on Variation of Species — Ducks 

 Building in Trees — Abnormal Habits of Animals — Celibacy 

 among Birds — Strange Habits of the Great Northern Diver — 

 Attachment to its Young — A Loon Hunt — Reptiles — Turtles, 

 Snakes — Frogs — Tritons. 



PART III. 



FISHES. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Salmon ; its Decadence — Object of my Excursion to the Schoodic 

 Lakes — Forest Scenery — Incidents of Travel — Maine and its 

 Liquor Laws — Lewey's and Long Lakes — Silvery Salmon Trout 

 — Fly Pest — Trout Fishing — Description of the Silvery Salmon 

 Trout — Grand Lake ; its Scenery — Glacial Erosion — Parasites 

 in Fishes — Effects of Light on Coloration of Fishes — Sea Trouts 

 of Europe and America -------- 201 



CHAPTER X. 



The Brook Trout of North America, and its Varieties — Trout 

 Fishing, and Game Qualities of the Brook Trout — Lake Trouts 

 of Boreal America — The Mackinau Salmon or Namaycush, or 

 Great Trout of the Lakes — The Siscowet — The Togue — Distri- 

 bution, Haunts, and Distinctions of the Species — Lake Trout 



