xiv Contents. 



Plant — Beaver; its Habits and Extermination — Musk Rat — 

 Porcupine, small Muridae — Bats — Squirrels— Melanism — Flying 

 Squirrels — Effects of the Climate on European Brown Rat and 

 Mouse ------ 78 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Lumberer's Camp Life and Hospitality — Forest Fires — Bar- 

 barous Mode of Hunting the Moose — Moose Yard — Moose 

 Hunt — Difficulties of Forest Travelling — Natural Decay of 

 Forest Trees— Lost in the Wilderness ----- 101 



PART II. 



BIRDS AND REPTILES. 



CHAPTER V. 



Rapacious Birds — Bald-headed Eagles stooping on Fish — Similitude 

 between Birds of Boreal America, Asia, and Europe — Hawks, 

 Owls — Effects of Climate and Civilization on certain Rapacious 

 Birds— Numerical Estimate of the Migratory and Resident 

 Birds — Effects of Cold and Climate on the inward and outward 

 Economies of Animals and Plants— Results of Climate on 

 certain Indigenous and Foreign Animals and Trees — Pines split 

 by Frost — A Silver Frost — Climate affecting Fruits — Ox-eye 

 Daisy — Crows and Jays — Canada Jay assuming the Habits of 

 the Kingfisher — The Thrushes — Robin and his Habits — Young 

 Birds Feeding their Companions — Songs of American Thrushes 

 — Catbird, or Carolina Mocking-bird ; its modes of Mimicking 

 Sounds — Woodpeckers prospecting rotting Pine Trunks — The 

 Log-cock — Differences in dimension of Species from different 

 Latitudes and Longitudes — Birds laying indefinite numbers of 

 Eggs - - - - . - - - - - - - 117 



CHAPTER VI. 



Habits and Haunts of the Ruby-throated Humming-bird — Migratory 

 Movements of Warblers — Swallows and their Migrations — 

 Influence of Forest Clearing on the Habits of Birds — Birds 

 abandoning their Young at the Migratory Season — Waxwings : 

 their Love Gambols— Departure and Arrival of the Crow Black- 

 bird — Loves and Courtships of Birds ----- 144 



