BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1904

COPYRIGHT 1904 BY BRADFORD TORREY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1904

PREFATORY NOTE

Of the chapters here brought together the two longest, the first and the last, are reprinted from the “Atlantic Monthly.” The others were originally contributed, by way of weekly letters, to three newspapers,—the “Evening Transcript” of Boston, and the “Mail and Express” and the “Evening Post” of New York.

CONTENTS

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A May Visit to Moosilauke[ 3]
A Week on Mount Washington[ 32]
Above the Birds[ 41]
Mountain-Top and Valley[ 50]
In the Mount Lafayette Forest [ 57]
On Bald Mountain[ 65]
Birds and Bright Leaves[ 72]
FLORIDA
First Impressions of Miami[ 83]
A Frosty Morning[ 89]
Bewilderment[ 96]
Waiting for the Music[ 104]
Peripatetic Botany[ 111]
A Peep at the Everglades[ 120]
The Beginnings of Spring[ 128]
Fair Ormond[ 136]
A Day in the Woods[ 142]
Picture and Song[ 151]
TEXAS AND ARIZONA
In Old San Antonio[ 161]
A Bird-Gazer’s Puzzles[ 171]
Luck on the Prairie[ 179]
Over the Border[ 188]
First Days in Tucson[ 196]
Mobbed in Arizona[ 205]
An Idle Afternoon[ 215]
Shy Life in the Desert[ 224]
A New Acquaintance[ 233]
The Desert Rejoices[ 242]
Nests and Other Matters[ 251]
A Flycatcher and a Sparrow[ 259]
A Bunch of Bright Birds[ 266]
Index[ 295]

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A MAY VISIT TO MOOSILAUKE