Insects present a wonderful array of eyes. These are not movable, but the evident purpose is that there shall be an eye in readiness in whatever direction the insect may have business. The common Ant has fifty six-cornered jewels set advantageously in his little head and so arranged as to take in everything that pertains to the pleasure of the industrious little creature. As the Ant does not move about with great rapidity he is less in need of many eyes than the House-fly which calls into play four thousand brilliant facets, while the Butterfly is supplied with about seventeen thousand. The most remarkable of all is the blundering Beetle which bangs his head against the wall with twenty-five thousand eyes wide open. THE HUNTED SQUIRREL. Then as a nimble Squirrel from the wood Ranging the hedges for his filbert food Sits pertly on a bough, his brown nuts cracking And from the shell the sweet white kernel taking; Till with their crooks and bags a sort of boys To share with him come with so great a noise That he is forced to leave a nut nigh broke, And for his life leap to a neighbor oak, Thence to a beech, thence to a row of ashes; Whilst through the quagmires and red water plashes The boys run dabbing through thick and thin. One tears his hose, another breaks his shin; This, torn and tattered, hath with much ado Got by the briars; and that hath lost his shoe; This drops his band; that headlong falls for haste; Another cries behind for being last; With sticks and stones and many a sounding holloa The little fool with no small sport they follow, Whilst he from tree to tree, from spray to spray Gets to the woods and hides him in his dray. --WILLIAM BROWNE, _Old English Poet_. SUMMARY. Page 86. =AMERICAN HERRING GULL.=--_Larus argentatus smithsonianus._ RANGE--North America generally. Breeds on the Atlantic coast from Maine northward. NEST--On the ground, on merely a shallow depression with a slight lining; occasionally in trees, sixty or seventy-five feet from the ground. EGGS--Three, varying from bluish white to deep yellowish brown, irregularly spotted and blotched with brown of different shades. ---- Page 90. =AMERICAN RACCOON.=--_Procyon lotor._ Other name: Coon. RANGE--North America. ---- Page 94. =PIGMY ANTELOPE.=--_Antilope pigmæa._ RANGE--South Africa. ---- Page 98. =RED-SHOULDERED HAWK.=--_Buteo lineatus._ RANGE--Eastern North America, north to Nova Scotia, west to the edge of the Great Plains. NEST--In the branches of lofty oaks, pines, and sycamores. In mountainous regions the nest is often placed on the narrow ledges of cliffs. EGGS--Three or four; bluish, yellowish white, or brownish, spotted, blotched, and dotted irregularly with many shades of reddish brown. ---- Page 107. =AMERICAN GRAY FOX.=--_Vulpes virginianus._