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• Resource Type: Book
• ISBN: 0-8014-9384-6
• Print Status: In Print
• Pages: 887
• Suggested Grade Level: 1st - 8th
• Subjects: Science, Teacher Resources, Nature Study
• Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
• Copyright: 1967
• Written: 1911

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• 27 — Birds
• 29 — Feathers as Clothing
• 31 — Feathers as Ornament
• 33 — How Birds Fly
• 35 — Migration of Birds
• 38 — Eyes and Ears of Birds
• 39 — The Form and Use of Beaks
• 40 — The Feet of Birds
• 42 — Songs of Birds
• 43 — Attracting Birds
• 45 — Value of Birds
• 47 — Chicken Ways
• 50 — Pigeons
• 53 — The Canary and the Goldfinch
• 57 — The Robin
• 62 — The Bluebird
• 65 — The White-Breasted Nuthatch
• 68 — The Chickadee
• 70 — The Downy Woodpecker
• 74 — The Sapsucker
• 76 — The Redheaded Woodpecker
• 77 — The Flicker or Yellow-Hammer
• 80 — The Meadowlark
• 83 — The English Sparrow
• 86 — The Chipping Sparrow
• 100 — The Screech Owl
• 89 — The Song Sparrow
• 91 — The Mockingbird
• 95 — The Catbird
• 97 — The Belted Kingfisher
• 104 — The Hawks
• 109 — The Swallows and the Chimney Swift
• 115 — The Hummingbird
• 117 — The Red-Winged Blackbird
• 118 — The Baltimore Oriole
• 124 — The Crow
• 127 — The Cardinal Grosbeak
• 130 — Geese
• 133 — Wild Geese
• 139 — The Turkey
• 144 — The Goldfish
• 148 — The Bullhead
• 152 — The Common Sucker
• 154 — The Shiner
• 156 — The Brook Trout
• 159 — The Stickleback
• 162 — The Sunfish
• 166 — The Johnny Darter
• 170 — The Common Toad
• 177 — The Spring Peeper or Pickering's Hyla
• 180 — The Frog
• 187 — The Newt or Eft
• 194 — The Garter or Garden Snake
• 197 — The Milk Snake or Spotted Adder
• 198 — The Water Snake
• 204 — The Turtle
• 208 — Lizards
• 215 — The Cotton-Tail Rabbit
• 219 — The Muskrat
• 224 — The House Mouse
• 229 — The Woodchuck
• 233 — The Red Squirrel or Chickaree
• 237 — Furry
• 239 — The Chipmunk
• 241 — The Little Brown Bat
• 245 — The Skunk
• 247 — The Raccoon
• 250 — The Wolf
• 251 — The Fox
• 254 — Dogs
• 270 — The Cat
• 266 — The Goat
• 270 — The Sheep
• 274 — The Horse
• 280 — Cattle
• 286 — The Pig
• 294 — Insects
• 301 — The Black Swallowtail Butterfly
• 305 — The Monarch Butterfly
• 310 — The Isabella Tiger Moth or Woolly Bear
• 313 — The Cecropia
• 317 — The Promethea
• 320 — The Hummingbird or Sphinx Moths
• 325 — The Codling Moth
• 329 — Leaf-Miners
• 332 — Leaf-Rollers
• 335 — The Gall Dwellers
• 338 — The Grasshopper
• 343 — The Katydid
• 344 — The Black Cricket
• 348 — The Snowy Tree Cricket
• 350 — The Cockroach
• 351 — The Aphids or Plant Lice
• 354 — The Ant Lion
• 356 — The Mother Lacewing and the Aphis Lion
• 358 — The Housefly
• 362 — The Colorado Potato Beetle
• 364 — The Ladybird
• 367 — The Firefly
• 369 — The Ways of the Ant
• 374 — The Ant-Nest and What May Be Seen Within It
• 378 — Mud-Dauber
• 380 — The Yellow Jacket
• 384 — The Leaf-Cutter Bee
• 386 — The Little Carpenter Bee
• 389 — The Bumblebee
• 391 — The Honeybee
• 395 — Honeycomb
• 396 — Industries of the Hive and the Observation Hive
• 400 — Insects of the Brook and Pond
• 401 — The Dragonflies and Damsel Flies
• 408 — The Caddis Worms and the Caddis Flies
• 411 — The Mosquito
• 416 — The Garden Snail
• 422 — The Earthworm
• 425 — The Crayfish
• 432 — Daddy Longlegs or Grandfather Greybeard
• 435 — Spiders
• 436 — Cobwebs
• 438 — The Funnel Web of a Grass Spider
• 439 — The Orb Web
• 443 — The Filmy Dome
• 444 — Ballooning Spiders
• 445 — The White Crab Spider
• 446 — How the Spider Mothers Take Care of Their Eggs
• 453 — How to Begin the Study of Plants
• 461 — The Hepatica
• 463 — The Yellow Adder's-Tongue
• 466 — Bloodroot
• 468 — The Trillium
• 471 — Dutchman's-Breeches and Squirrel Corn
• 473 — Jack-in-the-Pulpit
• 476 — The Violet
• 479 — The May Apple or Mandrake
• 483 — The Bluets
• 484 — The Yellow Lady's-Slipper
• 488 — The Evening Primrose
• 491 — The Milkweek
• 495 — The White Water Lily
• 498 — Pondweed
• 500 — The Cattail
• 503 — The Goldenrod
• 506 — The Asters
• 508 — The Jewelweed or Touch-Me-Not
• 512 — Weeds
• 514 — Poison Ivy
• 516 — The Common or Field Buttercup
• 518 — The Hedge Bindweed
• 520 — The Dodder
• 522 — The White Daisy
• 523 — The Yellow Daisy or Black-Eyed Susan
• 524 — The Thistle
• 527 — The Burdock
• 529 — Prickly Lettuce, a Compass Plant
• 531 — The Dandelion
• 535 — The Pearly Everlasting
• 537 — Mullein
• 539 — The Teasel
• 542 — Queen Anne's Lace or Wild Carrot
• 547 — The Crocus
• 549 — The Daffodils and Their Relatives
• 552 — The Tulip
• 555 — The Pansy
• 558 — The Bleeding Heart
• 560 — The Poppies
• 563 — The California Poppy
• 566 — The Nasturtium
• 568 — The Bee-Larkspur
• 571 — The Blue Flag or Iris
• 574 — The Sunflower
• 578 — The Bachelor's-Button
• 579 — The Salvia or Scarlet Sage
• 581 — Petunias
• 585 — The Garden or Horseshoe Geranium
• 588 — The Sweet Pea
• 591 — The Clovers
• 594 — Sweet Clover
• 596 — The White Clover
• 598 — The Maize or Indian Corn
• 604 — The Cotton Plant
• 608 — The Strawberry
• 611 — The Pumpkin
• 618 — Trees
• 620 — Wood-Grain
• 622 — How to Begin Tree Study
• 628 — The Maples
• 634 — The American Elm
• 638 — The Oaks
• 643 — The Shagbark Hickory
• 645 — The Chestnut
• 648 — The Horse Chestnut
• 651 — The Willows
• 655 — The Cottonwood or Carolina Poplar
• 658 — The White Ash
• 661 — The Apple Tree
• 665 — How An Apple Grows
• 667 — The Apple
• 670 — The Pine
• 675 — The Norway Spruce
• 679 — The Hemlock
• 680 — The Dogwood
• 683 — The Velvet or Staghorn Sumac
• 686 — The Witch Hazel
• 689 — The Mountain Laurel
• 693 — The Christmas Fern
• 696 — The Bracken
• 698 — How a Fern Bud Unfolds
• 699 — The Fruiting of the Fern
• 706 — The Field Horsetail
• 709 — The Hair-Cap Moss or Pigeon Wheat
• 714 — Mushrooms and Other Fungi
• 720 — Puffballs
• 721 — The Bracket Fungi
• 727 — Molds
• 729 — Bacteria
• 736 — The Brook
• 739 — Life in the Brook
• 740 — How a Brook Drops Its Load
• 744 — Rocks
• 745 — Sedimentary Rocks
• 746 — Igneous Rocks
• 748 — Metamorphic Rocks
• 748 — Calcite, Limestone, and Marble
• 750 — Minerals
• 751 — Crystal Growth
• 753 — Salt
• 754 — Quartz
• 755 — Feldspar
• 758 — Mica
• 760 — The Soil
• 766 — How Valuable Soil Is Lost
• 770 — How to Conserve Our Soil
• 776 — The Magnet
• 780 — Climate and Weather
• 783 — The Atmosphere
• 791 — The Winds of the World
• 798 — Storms
• 799 — Weather Maps
• 801 — How to Read Weather Maps
• 808 — Water Forms
• 815 — The Story of the Stars
• 818 — The Polestar and the Dippers
• 821 — Cassiopeia's Chair, Cepheus, and the Dragon
• 823 — The Winter Stars
• 826 — Aldebaran and the Pleiades
• 827 — The Two Dog Stars, Sirius and Procyon
• 828 — Capella and the Heavenly Twins
• 829 — The Stars of Summer
• 833 — The Sun
• 838 — Comets and Meteors
• 841 — The Relation Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Planting of the Garden
• 843 — The Ecliptic and the Zodiac
• 844 — The Sky Clock
• 847 — The Equatorial Star Finder
• 851 — The Relations of the Sun to the Earth
• 855 — The Moon