CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. March, 1859 (ÆT. 41) 3
The Silvery Willow Catkins — The Serene Bluebird — Snow Buntings — The First Springing — Lecturer and Audience — Melting Snow — The White-bellied Nuthatch's Song — Hawks — Skunk-Cabbage — A Shrike's Song — Listening for Birds — Science and the Mysteries — The Green in Water and Sky — Green Radical Leaves — Ice and Water — Surfaces — The Open River Channel — Sounds on a March Day — The Innocent Bluebird — The Old Hunt House — Accident in the Best Things — The Browns of Early Spring — Garfield's Trap- ping — Where to find Indian Arrowheads — The Terrestrial Browns — The Hunt House — Floating Ice in the River — A Change in the Weather — A New Season — A Great Gull — Water-Lines — The Blushing Willow Twigs — A Shore with- out Shore-Marks — A Variety of Weather — The Winthrops' Front Door — Freshet Driftwood — White Pines in a Wind — The Earth in Russet Garb — The Interest in the Weather — A Parcel of Sparrows — Sailing in a Strong Wind — Tree Spar- rows and Hyemalis — A Field of Old Ice in Fair Haven Pond — Soaring Hen-Hawks — A March Landscape — Early Spring Colors — The Weather-wise Wood Frog — Goldfinches in Winter Dress — The Tawny Moist Banks — Trapping — A Little Bream — Unobtrusive Early Flowers — The Weather- Stain on Wood — The Search for Arrowheads — The Indian Arrowhead — A Flock of Blackbirds — Migrating Geese — Our Vernal Lakes — The Leopard-spotted Earth — The Wary Geese — Queer Sounds made by a Red Squirrel — A Pair of Sheldrakes — The Perception of Color — Wood Frogs.
CHAPTER II. April, 1859 (ÆT.41) 104
Indian Relics — Swarms of Gnats — Squirrels and Pine Cones — The Sound of Snipe — Lichens and Mosses — Pecuniary Reward — Ripple-Marks on the Shore of Walden — The
