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LETTER III. — June 1<9^. 
School — Construction and Eurniture of School- room — Pupils— 
Eorest Yard — Early Walk — Breakfast — Homminy — Woffles — 
Indian Bread — Feather-fan — Mocking-bird — Lizards — Scor- 
pion Lizard — Fast Runner — Ants — Rabbit — Twisting-Stick — 
Flowers — Butterflies — Zebra Swallowtail — Yellows — Brown 
Thrush — Cardinal Grosbeak — Browns — Tick — Turkeys — Tur- 
key-pen — Afternoon AY alk — Butterflies — Turtle-dove — Indian 
Pink — Skippers — Barred Owl — Night-hawks — Calling Hogs 
—Habits of Hogs — Twilight in the Garden — Marvel of Peru 
— Hawk-moths — Development of the Imago — Structure of a 
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LETTER lY.—June 10th. 
Night Scene — Chuck- Will’s-Widow— Its Note — Boat-fly — Anolis 
—Its Changes of Colour — Prairies — Their Plants and Flowers 
— Larkspur — Coral-tree — Swallow-worts — View over the 
Forest — Blue Swallowtail — ^Black Swallowtail' — Archippus — 
Green Clouded Swallowtail — Painted Beauty — Pink-wing 
Moth — Beauty of Butterflies — Scales of Wing — Scarcity of 
Water — Resources in Drought — Forest Prairie — Goldwing 
Woodpecker — Carolina AVren — Passalus — Beetles on Flowers 
— Glycine — AYhite-Spotted Skipper — Its Transformations — 
Girdling Trees — Spanish Moss — Red-tailed Hawk — Turkey- 
Buzzard — Ivory-bill Woodpecker — Log-cock — Dragonfly feed- 
ing on Fish — Forest-Pool — Desolation — Terrapins— Alligator 
Tortoise — Soft-back 69 
LETTER Y.—June mh. 
Ride to Cahawba— Mush Creek — Fords— Hydrangea — Prickly 
Pear — Blue Heron — Cahawba Town and River — Ferry — Horses 
tied — Crying Frogs — Leaf-eating Lady-birds— Lepisma — Quail 
— Anecdote— Scarlet Viper — Trail of Snakes — Intellectual 
Capacity fairly distributed — Examples — Provincialisms of 
Speech— Large Cicadm — Purple Grakle — Scarlet Trumpet 
Flower — Humming-bird — Cross-vine — Spanish Moss — Re- 
