NEST--In a tuft of grass or under a low bush. EGGS--Six to thirteen. ---- Page 170. =RED BAT=--_Atalapha noveboracensis._ Other name: "New York Bat." RANGE--Throughout all the Atlantic coast states. ---- Page 170. BLACK BAT--_Scotophilus carolinensis._ Other name: "Carolina Bat." RANGE--Common throughout North America. ---- Page 174. =AMERICAN OTTER=--_Lutra canadensis._ RANGE--All parts of temperate North America, encroaching closely on the Arctic region. ---- Page 178. =GOLDEN PLOVER=--_Charadrius dominicus._ Other names: Frost Bird, Bull Head. RANGE--Nearly the whole of North America, breeding in the Arctic regions; south in winter to Patagonia. NEST--In a small depression among the moss and dried grass of a small knoll. EGGS--Four, of a pale yellowish ground color, with dark umber-brown spots scattered over the shell. ---- Page 187. =CANADIAN PORCUPINE=--_Erethizon dorsatus._ RANGE--A native of the forests of North America, from the sixty-seventh parallel of north latitude south to Virginia and Kentucky, the eastern and western boundaries being Labrador and the Rocky Mountains. ---- Page 191. =CASPIAN TERN=--_Sterna tschograva._ RANGE--Nearly cosmopolitan; in North America, breeding southward to Virginia, Lake Michigan, Texas, Nevada, and California. NEST--A mere hollow scooped in the dry sand. EGGS--Two or three, varying from white to greenish-buff, spotted with brown and lilac of different shades. ---- Page 193. FLOWERING ALMOND--_Amygdalus communis._ Native of Calmuck, Tartary.