ILLUSTRATIONS[A Summer Evening—Black-crowned Night Herons]Frontispiece[Red Clover and Bumblebee]4[Red Salamander, Old and Young]7[Newts]7[Hippopotamus—“It was his game of solitaire”]9[The Otter and his Slide]12[“Follow my Leader”]14[Butterflies at Play—“Whirling over Mt. Hood’s pointed peak”]16[Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Nest]20[Orchids]22[Young Cowbird in Vireo’s Nest]25[Coyote—“What a shot!”]28[Argiope, the Meadow Spider]44[Cicada—“Dog-days-z-z-z-z-z-z-z”]48[“The bats flitting and wavering about”]49[Red-eyed Vireo—“Do you believe it?”]52[Tufted Puffins]59[Brandt’s Cormorant]63[A Mother Spider with her Sack of Eggs]67[The Father Stickleback on Guard]68[California Murre—“With threatening beak watched the two men come on”]75[Petrels—“Skimming the heaving sea like swallows”]80[Riding the Rim Rock—“Neck and neck with a big white steer”]97[Sassafras]105[Deadly Nightshade]106[Poison Sumach]107[Poison Ivy]108[Virginia Creeper]109[The Deadly Mushrooms]110[Poke Berries]111[The Cony, or Pika]116