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WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD HIS book has grown out of an attempt by the author to make a revised edition of his Friends Worth Rnming, a small volume published by Harper Brothers nearly twenty years ago. This process, however, soon involved so many changes, called for by increase of information in this ever-advancing department of knowledge, that it seemed best to cast the whole matter, old and new, into an entirely fresh form, with illustrations, pho tographed from life, and a new title. A large part of this material originally appeared, more or less in its present form, in such periodicals as Harws Aionthly and Har rs Bazar, The Centztry and St. Nicholas, The Popular Science Alonthly, Lifipincott S Magazine, The Outlook, The Field, of London, and some others. The author gratefully acknowledges the courtesy of the pub lishers of these articles in allowing him to reprint them, with such revision as seemed desirable. KEW YORK, Ja zuary 1, 902. . .. E. I. 111 I l l u s t r a t i o n s AN INQUIRING WOODCHUCK . . . From a photograph from life RED SQUIRREL . . . . . . . . . . From a photograph from life A FRIENDLY CHIPMUNK. . . . . . . From a photograph from life by Mary F. Cressy A MUSKRATS WINTER HOUSE . . Photographed by H. W. Fisher COOPER S HAWK . . . . . . . . . From a photogrsph from life by H. K. Job DOWNY WOODPECKER . . . . . . . From a photograph from life by H. K. Job. WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH . . - . From a photograph from life by H. K. Job. HOSPITALITY TO A CANADA SPARROW. From a photograph from life by H. K. Job. YOUNG SHRIKES . . . . . . . . . From a photograph from life by L. W. Brownell, WET SNOW IN MARCH . . . From a photograph by Clarence Lown A BLUEBIRD . . . . . . . . .. . From a photograph from life by L. W. Brownell A CHIPPING SPARROW . . . . . . . From a photograph from life bv L W Brownell vii --p WILD L I F E O F ORCHARD AND FIELD SONG SPARROW FEEDING HER YOUNG . . Facing 9. 150 From a photograph from life by L. W. Brownell WOOD-THRUSH IN ITS NEST ON A STUMP 158 From a photograph from life by L W. Brownell AN OBSERVING GOPHER . . . . . . . 172 From a photograph from life by H. K. Job A GARTER SNAKE. . . . . . . . . . 190 From a photograph from life by W. H. Fisher A FLYING SQUIRREL . . . . . . . . 196 From a photograph from life by W. H. Fisher NESTS OF THE WILD CLIFF-SWALLOW . . 212 Photographed in Michelle Park, Colorado - THE NORTHERN GRAY SQUIRREL . . . . l 226 From a photograph from life by L. W. Brownell NEST O F T H E RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Photographed by L. W. Brownell NEST OF A BANK-SWALLOW . . . . . . 282 Photographed, after opening the burrow, by L. W. Brownell THE COMMON WHITE-LIPPED SNAIL . . . 294 From a photograph from life by L. W Brownell NEST OF A MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT 330 Photographed by L. W. Brownell JEWEL-WEED . . . . . . . . . . . . Photographed by L. W. Brownell 336 - - WILD LIFE O F ORCHARD AND F I E L D her garden. It was so small she could hide it in her closed hand-all except a long, flexible, proboscis-like nose, pink and tender, that waved about and up and down like a miniature elephants trunk, and was plainly the creatures chief bureau of information. The fur was blue-gray and exquisitely soft-velvet is rough in comparison the ears close set, the tail short, and the white feet, each toe perfectly modelled, so delicate that a magnifyingglass was needed to fully display their beauty. Afew nights afterwards two others were taken in a similar unintended and unbaited trap. Both were dead, although entirely unhurt...

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