=Note A, p. 115.=--Dolomedes fimbriatus, a rather common English spider, makes or utilizes a rude raft of leaves, and drifts over the fens thereon. The American Dolomedes frequents the water but has not been observed to act as above. =Note B, p. 117.=--As a rule spiders prey upon one another, without regard to species or sex. Fig. 55 represents two males fighting. CHAPTER XIV. =Note A, p. 123.=--Lycosa tigrina MCCOOK abounds in the Eastern and Middle United States, and makes the burrow here described. CHAPTER XV. =Note A, p. 128.=--Herpyllus ecclesiasticus HENTZ is a common American Tubeweaver. It is black, with a dorsal pattern in white like that shown in the figure of the "Pixie parson." =Note B, p. 135.=--The aeronautic or ballooning habit of spiders is the basis of these engineering feats of the Pixies Lycosa and Gossamer. A pleasant October day is the best on which to observe it; but young spiders may be seen in aeronautic flight during all warm months. An elevated spot is usually sought from which to make the ascent. Ground spiders, as Lycosids, ascend in the manner shown Fig. 57; Orbweavers drift off as at Fig. 59. This interesting habit is described more at length in my "Tenants of an Old Farm." =Note C, p. 137.=--Mother spiders of certain species carry their egg cocoons until the young are hatched; some take them in their jaws as our long-legged cellar spider, Pholcus, others beneath their bodies or lashed to the end of the abdomen. CHAPTER XVI. =Note A, p. 144.=--Tetragnatha is a genus which has several common species in the United States and Europe, T. extensa being most familiar. Its colors, especially when young, are green and yellow, and when its long body and legs are stretched upon a leaf or twig (Fig. 64) it is difficult to detect it. The species here personified is one that keeps close to streams and ponds, Tetragnatha grallator HENTZ, the Stilt spider. The method of sailing, Fig. 66, is not imaginative but drawn from nature. The Pixie "Sixpoint" is a Citigrade spider, Dolomedes sexpunctatus HENTZ. I have known it to stay under water for forty minutes. CHAPTER XVII. =Note A, p. 153.=--Many Orbweavers spin together several leaves, or roll up the end of a single leaf and form the nests described and shown, Fig. 69. That at p. 158, Fig. 72, was made by Epeira trifolium HENTZ. (See p. 194.) =Note B, p. 154.=--"The Cardinal Company." Phidippus cardinalis HENTZ has its abdomen and venter covered with brilliant red hairs. Phidippus rufus HENTZ resembles it but is less brilliant. These are jumping or Saltigrade spiders, belonging to the Attidæ. CHAPTER XIX. =Note A, p. 188.=--The Sedentary spiders, those which capture their prey by means of snares, commonly fling bands and threads of silk around the captive before feeding upon it. (See p. 69.) CHAPTER XXII. =Note A, p. 216.=--The habits and spinning work of a common Orbweaver _Epeira labyrinthea_ are personified in the Pixie jailer Labyrinthea.