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| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Summer, from Rural Hours | p. 1 |
| Birds and Their Friends | p. 9 |
| Plants That Eat Animals, from Home Studies in Nature | p. 17 |
| From On the Plains and among the Peaks; or How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection, by Mary Dartt | p. 33 |
| Experiences of a Collector Collecting on Biscayne Bay, Part II | p. 45 |
| The Woman Botanist, from Summer in a Bog | p. 55 |
| The Home Life of the Chimney Swift, from Birds of an Iowa Dooryard | p. 62 |
| Down with the House Wren Boxes, from Birds of an Iowa Dooryard | |
| Communal Life, from Wasps: Social and Solitary, with George W. Peckham | p. 75 |
| Ammophila and Her Caterpillars, from Wasps: Social and Solitary, with George W. Peckham | |
| Letter: May 7, 1906 In Portu Bodega | p. 84 |
| Ruffed Grouse: Partridge, from Birds through an Opera Glass | p. 95 |
| Long-Billed Marsh Wren, from Birds of Village and Field | |
| Camping under the Stars on the Way Up, from Among the Birds in the Grand Canyon Country | |
| A Dweller in Tents, from Ways of the Six-Footed | p. 106 |
| The Hermit Thrush: The Voice of the Northern Woods | p. 114 |
| Tenants of Birdsacre | |
| Eastern Brazil through an Agrostologist's Spectacles | p. 126 |
| Camping on the Equator | p. 136 |
| Three Thousand Miles up the Amazon | |
| Mary S. Young's Journal of Botanical Explorations in Trans-Pecos, Texas, August-September, 1914 | p. 152 |
| Ecology and World War I, from Adventures in Ecology | p. 161 |
| Marooned in a Potato Field | p. 171 |
| Mayflies: Ephemerida (Plectoptera), from Field Book of Ponds and Streams | p. 179 |
| Fresh-Water Sponges in Winter | |
| The Awakening, from Research Is a Passion with Me | p. 189 |
| On Watching an Ovenbird's Nest, from The Watcher at the Nest | |
| The Grandchildren of Uno and 4M, from The Watcher at the Nest | |
| Behavior of Pompilid Wasps, from Wasp Studies Afield, with Phil Rau | p. 203 |
| Watching a Carolina Wren's Nest | p. 210 |
| Camping in the Kisatchie Wold | p. 216 |
| The Forest of Lynn Fork of Leatherwood | p. 223 |
| From Crip, Come Home | p. 230 |
| Sea Pansies, from The Edge of the Sea | p. 236 |
| Basket Starfish, from The Edge of the Sea | |
| The Other Road, from Silent Spring | |
| Afterword | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
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