THE FOX SPARROWS’ BATH _Frontispiece_ SKUNK TRACKS 3 CAT TRACKS 4 TRACKS OF HARE JOINED BY DOGS 6 “IN A BURST OF SPEED ACROSS THE OPEN FIELD” 7 DOG TRACKS IN FOUR INCHES OF SNOW 7 TRACKS OF THE WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE 9 “A GRAY SQUIRREL WITH A RED SQUIRREL AT HIS HEELS” 11 FOX TRACKS 12 MUSKRAT TRAIL 14 “INTO THE AIR THEY WENT” 26 WHITE-FOOT--“IN THE WINTER GALES” 33 “FIVE WEE MICE” 35 WHITE-FOOT AND THE HICKORY-NUTS 38 A VIREO’S NEST IN WINTER 40 “WIND-SWEEPINGS” 41 ’POSSUM IN THE PERSIMMON TREE 50 WEASEL--“WATCHING ME FROM BETWEEN THE STICKS” 58 “A CHICKADEE!” 62 “DOING THE EXCAVATING THEMSELVES” 69 FOOD FOR THE NUTHATCHES 76 THE MOURNING-CLOAK BUTTERFLY, AN EARLY FLITTER 77 A RUFFED GROUSE TRAIL 78 “THE SNOW HAD MELTED FROM THE RIVER MEADOWS” 80 “CARRYING A BIG BOB-TAILED VOLE OUT OF MY ‘MOWING’” 85 “SCURRYING THROUGH THE TOPS OF SOME PITCH PINES” 90 “ALL THE AFTERNOON THE CROWS HAVE BEEN GOING OVER” 93 THE DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS, OR DUCK-BILL 97 THE ECHIDNA, OR PORCUPINE ANT-EATER 98 “STANDING BEFORE A LARGE ’POSSUM” 99 “OUT SHE SPILLED AND NINE LITTLE ’POSSUMS WITH HER” 100 “A GREAT BLUE HERON WOULD BEAT PONDEROUSLY ACROSS” 106 MEADOW MOUSE--“IN A DRIFTING CATBIRD’S NEST” 109 “A LITTLE FIGURE IN YELLOW OIL-SKINS” 114 “DREW A LIMP LITTLE FORM OUT OF THE WATER” 121 QUAIL--“ONE OF THE COVEY CALLING THE FLOCK TOGETHER” 127 “A FLOCK OF ROBINS DASHING INTO THE CEDARS” 131 PUSSY-WILLOWS AND WATERCRESS 132 “THE HAZELNUT BUSHES ARE IN BLOOM” 133 BLUEBIRD--“LIKE A BIT OF SUMMER SKY” 135 INTRODUCTION