ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
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