The subjects chosen are of common interest, and nearly all can be found by any person who hunts for them assiduously. As the seasons vary in different localities, it has been impossible to set a date for the appearance or disappearance of an animal or a flower, that will apply alike to all parts of the country for which this volume is intended. Eastern United States.
J. Alden Loring.
Oswego, N. Y.
[List of Illustrations]
| PAGE | |
| White-breasted Nuthatch on a Bird-house | [Frontispiece] |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | [15] |
| English Sparrow | [25] |
| Purple Martins | [35] |
| Northern Shrike | [39] |
| Prairie Horned Lark | [47] |
| Loon | [53] |
| Hibernating Woodchuck | [57] |
| European Hedgehog | [75] |
| Nest of a Meadow Mouse Exposed by Melting Snow | [85] |
| Screech Owl | [89] |
| Meadow Lark | [99] |
| Downy Woodpecker | [105] |
| Fox at Den | [119] |
| Chimney Swift | [125] |
| "One of your bird-houses should be tenanted by a wren" | [129] |
| Male Bobolink | [141] |
| Barn Swallow | [153] |
| Belted Kingfisher | [165] |
| Catbird | [171] |
| Woodchuck | [183] |
| Song Sparrow | [191] |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | [199] |
| Kingbird | [207] |
| Red-winged Blackbirds | [215] |
| Cedar Waxwing | [221] |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | [245] |
| Skunk Hunting Grasshoppers | [255] |
| American Redstart | [259] |
| Grebe | [277] |
| Spotted Sandpiper | [281] |
| Chickadees (Upper, Mountain; Lower, Hudsonian) | [287] |
| "The great horned owl and the snowy owl can be tamed" | [301] |
| Blue Jays | [305] |
| A Four-storied Warbler's Nest. Each Story Represents an Attempt by the Warbler to Avoid Becoming Foster-parent of a Young Cowbird | [311] |
| Snow Bunting | [315] |
| Cotton-tail Rabbit Taking a Sun Bath | [331] |
| Bonaparte Gull | [337] |