ILLUSTRATIONS
Dallas Lore Sharp
A Summer Evening—Black-crowned Night Herons
Frontispiece
Red Clover and Bumblebee
4
Red Salamander, Old and Young
7
Newts
7
Hippopotamus—“It was his game of solitaire”
9
The Otter and his Slide
12
“Follow my Leader”
14
Butterflies at Play—“Whirling over Mt. Hood’s pointed peak”
16
Ruby-throated Hummingbird and Nest
20
Orchids
22
Young Cowbird in Vireo’s Nest
25
Coyote—“What a shot!”
28
Argiope, the Meadow Spider
44
Cicada—“Dog-days-z-z-z-z-z-z-z”
48
“The bats flitting and wavering about”
49
Red-eyed Vireo—“Do you believe it?”
52
Tufted Puffins
59
Brandt’s Cormorant
63
A Mother Spider with her Sack of Eggs
67
The Father Stickleback on Guard
68
California Murre—“With threatening beak watched the two men come on”
75
Petrels—“Skimming the heaving sea like swallows”
80
Riding the Rim Rock—“Neck and neck with a big white steer”
97
Sassafras
105
Deadly Nightshade
106
Poison Sumach
107
Poison Ivy
108
Virginia Creeper
109
The Deadly Mushrooms
110
Poke Berries
111
The Cony, or Pika
116
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