WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON. (1850-1896.) _Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-Making_, 1876; _Pastoral Days, or Memories of a New England Year_, 1882; _Highways and Byways, or Saunterings in New England_, 1883; _Happy Hunting Grounds, a Tribute to the Woods and Fields_, 1886; _Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine_, 1890; _Sharp Eyes_, 1891; _Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms_, 1895. CHARLES CONRAD ABBOTT. (1843----.) _The Stone Age in New Jersey_, 1876; _Primitive Industry_, 1881; _A Naturalist's Rambles About Home_, 1884; _Upland and Meadow_, 1886; _Wasteland Wanderings_, 1887; _Days out of Doors_, 1889; _Outings at Odd Times_, 1890; _Recent Rambles_, 1892; _Outings in a Tree-Top_, 1894; _The Birds About Us_, 1894; _Notes of the Night_, 1895; _Birdland Echoes_, 1896; _The Freedom of the Fields_, 1898; _Clear Skies and Cloudy_, 1899; _In Nature's Realm_, 1900. "OLIVE THORNE MILLER"--HARRIET MANN MILLER. (1831----.) _Little Folks in Feathers and Fur_, 1879; _Queer Pets at Marcy's_, 1880; _Bird Ways_, 1885; _In Nesting Time_, 1888; _Four Handed Folk_, 1890; _Little Brothers of the Air_, 1890; _Bird-Lover in the West_, 1894; _Upon the Tree Tops_, 1896; _The First Book of Birds_, 1899; _True Bird Stories_, 1903; _With the Birds in Maine_, 1904; and others. BRADFORD TORREY. (1843-1912.) _Birds in the Bush_, 1885; _A Rambler's Lease_, 1889; _The Foot-Path Way_, 1892; _A Florida Sketch-Book_, 1894; _Spring Notes from Tennessee_, 1896; _A World of Green Hills_, 1898; _Every-Day Birds_, 1900; _Footing It in Franconia_, 1900; _The Clerk of the Woods_, 1903; _Nature's Invitation_, 1904; _Friends on the Shelf_, 1906. FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY. (1863----.) _Birds Through an Opera Glass_, 1889; _My Summer in a Mormon Village_, 1895; _A Birding on a Bronco_, 1896; _Birds of Village and Field_, 1898; _Handbook of Birds of Western United States_, 1902. FRANK BOLLES. (1856-1894.) _Land of the Lingering Snow_, 1891; _At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from July to December_, 1893; _From Blomidon to Smoky_, 1895. CHAPTER IX WALT WHITMAN