CONTENTS

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A Familiar Guest[3]
The Cuckoos and the Outwitted Cow-bird[23]
Door-step Neighbors[57]
A Queer Little Family on the Bittersweet[87]
The Welcomes of the Flowers[105]
A Honey-dew Picnic[151]
A Few Native Orchids and Their Insect Sponsors[171]
The Milkweed[227]
Index[239]

LIST OF DESIGNS

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William Hamilton Gibson[Frontispiece]
Initial. The Studio Door[3]
The Rose-bush Episode[9]
A Corner of My Table[12]
An Animated Brush[14]
A Specimen in Three Stages[16]
The Studio Table[18]
Initial[23]
The European Cuckoo[24]
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo[26]
Browsing Kine[29]
A Greedy Foster-child[34]
The Yellow Warbler[44]
A Blighted Home[46]
The Normal Nest of the Yellow Warbler[47]
The Yellow Warbler at Home[49]
A Suspicious Nest of the Yellow Warbler[50]
The Nest Separated[52]
Initial[57]
The Door-step Arena, with its Pitfalls[60]
Fishing for Tigers[65]
Tiger-beetle[68]
The Spider Victim[70]
Filling the Spider's Grave[71]
Black Digger-wasp[73]
Black Digger-wasp and His Victim, Showing the Egg of the Wasp Attached[75]
Protecting the Burrow while Searching for Prey[79]
The "Cow-spit" Mystery Disclosed[81]
The Tiger's Head, from the Victim's Stand-point[84]
Initial. Branch of the Bittersweet[87]
A Bittersweet Covey[90]
Flushing the Game[92]
Specimen Twig[94]
Building Froth-tent[100]
Butterflies and Flowers[105]
A Row of Stamens[106]
The Parts of a Flower[109]
Historical Series, Showing the Progress of Discovery of Flower Fertilization[110]
The Garden Sage[120]
Cross-fertilization of the Sage[121]
Elastic Stamens. Anthers Inserted in their Pockets[124]
Elastic Stamens of Mountain-laurel[125]
Andromeda Ligustrina[127]
Fertilisation of Andromeda[128]
The Laurel[130]
Cross-fertilization of the Blue-flag[131]
Blue-flag[132]
Pogonia and Devil's-bit[133]
Devil's-bit[134]
Horse-balm. Collinsonia[135]
Cross-fertilization of the Horse-balm—Flowers in Various Stages, and in the Order of their Visitation by the Bee[136]
The Cone-flower[137]
Cone-flower, Showing Numerous Florets, Some in Pollen, Others in Stigmatic Stage[139]
Cross-fertilization of Cone-flower[140]
The Fertilization of the English Arum, 1st Stage[141]
The Fertilization of the English Arum. 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th Stages[142]
Pogonia[145]
Cross-fertilization[146]
A Pine Branch[151]
Initial[151]
The Picnic[159]
Tail-piece[167]
Habenaria Orbiculata[171]
Arethusa Bulbosa[177]
The Botanical Distribution of an Ordinary Flower and of the Orchid[182]
The "Column" in Various Orchids[183]
The Result of the Bee's Visit[184]
Cross-fertilization of Arethusa[188]
Habenaria Orbiculata. A Single Flower Enlarged[190]
Orchis Spectabilis[191]
Cross-fertilization of H. Orbiculata (Sphinx-moth)[193]
The Flower and Column of Orchis Spectabilis, Enlarged[195]
Orchis Spectabilis[195]
Position of Pollen of Orchis Spectabilis Withdrawn on Pencil[197]
The Cross-fertilization of Orchis Spectabilis[197]
The Purple-fringed Orchid[199]
The Ragged Orchid (Front Section)[200]
The Ragged Orchid (Profile Section)[202]
The Ragged Orchid (H. Lacera) and the Butterfly's Tongue. Cross-fertilization[203]
The Yellow Orchid (H. Flava)[204]
The Ragged Orchid (H. Lacera)[205]
Cypripedium Acaule[207]
Moccasin-flower (C. Acaule)[208]
The Bee Imprisoned in the Lips of Cypripedium[210]
Moccasin-flower. Bee Sipping Nectar[211]
The Bee Passing Beneath the Stigma[213]
A Bee Receiving Pollen-plaster on His Thorax[214]
Rattlesnake-Plantain—the Young and the Old[215]
Cross-fertilization of the Rattlesnake-Plantain. Side Sections[216]
Cross-fertilisation of the Rattlesnake-Plantain. Front View[217]
The Tongue of a Bumblebee[218]
Goodyera, or Periamium Pubescens[221]
Milkweed Captives[231]
The Pollen Masses and the Fissure[232]
The Tragedy of the Bees[235]
A Moth Caught by the Tongue in Dogbane[237]

A FAMILIAR GUEST