Brown Season — Willow Flowers — A Fish Hawk — Stones thrown out by a Woodchuck — A Peculiar Willow — The Fur Trade — The Protection of Birds — The Early Greens of the Swamps — A Forest Viol — Watching Ripples on a Pond— An Old Oak Stump — The Early-blooming Plants — Shel- drakes and Black Ducks — Transported Meadow-Crust — The Note of the Frog — The Bay-Wing’s Song — The Rich- ness of the Farmer’s Life — The Ripples on a Rill — The Jingle of the Pine Warbler — Sounds of Awakened Nature — The Voice of the Hunting Hound — Stedman Buttrick’s Shooting — Sound Acorns—An Aquarium — Setting out Pines — Salamanders — The Field Sparrow — Impressions and Ideas — Fishworms — A Squirrel’s Nest — Times and Seasons — Green-topped Tussocks of Sedge — The Greening Grass — Notes of the Season — A Walk about Lynn — The Small Blue Butterflies — The Expanding Buds of Viburnum nudum — Ducks in Walden.
CHAPTER III. May, 1859 (ÆT. 41) 170
The Worship of the Devil — Glorifying God — Whirlwinds — The Arrowheadiferous Sands of Concord — Priests of the Sun — A Peculiar Fragrance — Woodchucks — The First Shadow — The Yellow Birch in Bloom — Swarms of Gnats — Miscel- laneous Notes — A Dead Snake—A Black Sucker — The Tender Yellow Foliage — Some Notes of Late May —A Black Snake — A Woodchuck at Bay.
CHAPTER IV. June, 1859 (ÆT. 41) 197
A Rose-breasted Grosbeak’s Nest — Notes of Early June — A Pout’s Nest and Young — The Rose-breasted Grosbeak — A Sea of Pipes — Rain on the River — Young Flying Squirrels — The Meadow Revolution — The Dam Controversy — A Luna Moth — A Flying Squirrel’s Nest.
CHAPTER V. July, 1859 (ÆT. 41) 216 Leaping Frogs — A Study of the Physiography of Concord River — Shoals, Bends, and Weeds — Heart-Leaf — The River's Course — The Floated Meadow — The Phalanxes of
