ILLUSTRATIONS[The Fox Sparrows’ Bath]Frontispiece[Skunk Tracks]3[Cat Tracks]4[Tracks of Hare joined by Dogs]6“[In a burst of speed across the open field]”7[Dog Tracks in Four Inches of Snow]7[Tracks of the White-Footed Mouse]9“[A gray squirrel with a red squirrel at his heels]”11[Fox Tracks]12[Muskrat Trail]14“[Into the air they went]”26[White-Foot—“In the winter gales]”33“[Five wee mice]”35[White-Foot and the Hickory-Nuts]38[A Vireo’s Nest in Winter]40“[Wind-sweepings]”41[’Possum in the Persimmon Tree]50[Weasel—“Watching me from between the sticks]”58“[A chickadee!]”62“[Doing the excavating themselves]”69[Food for the Nuthatches]76[The Mourning-Cloak Butterfly, an Early Flitter]77[A Ruffed Grouse Trail]78“[The snow had melted from the river meadows]”80“[Carrying a big bob-tailed vole out of my ‘mowing’]”85“[Scurrying through the tops of some pitch pines]”90“[All the afternoon the crows have been going over]”93[The Duck-billed Platypus, or Duck-Bill]97[The Echidna, or Porcupine Ant-Eater]98“[Standing before a large ’possum]”99“[Out she spilled and nine little ’possums with her”]100“[A great blue heron would beat ponderously across]”106[Meadow Mouse—“In a drifting catbird’s nest]”109“[A little figure in yellow oil-skins]”114“[Drew a limp little form out of the water]”121[Quail—“One of the covey calling the flock together]”127“[A flock of robins dashing into the cedars]”131[Pussy-Willows and Watercress]132“[The hazelnut bushes are in bloom]”133[Bluebird—“Like a bit of summer sky”]135