| The Fox Sparrows’ Bath | Frontispiece |
| Skunk Tracks | 3 |
| Cat Tracks | 4 |
| Tracks of Hare joined by Dogs | 6 |
| “In a burst of speed across the open field” | 7 |
| Dog Tracks in Four Inches of Snow | 7 |
| Tracks of the White-Footed Mouse | 9 |
| “A gray squirrel with a red squirrel at his heels” | 11 |
| Fox Tracks | 12 |
| Muskrat Trail | 14 |
| “Into the air they went” | 26 |
| White-Foot—“In the winter gales” | 33 |
| “Five wee mice” | 35 |
| White-Foot and the Hickory-Nuts | 38 |
| A Vireo’s Nest in Winter | 40 |
| “Wind-sweepings” | 41 |
| ’Possum in the Persimmon Tree | 50 |
| Weasel—“Watching me from between the sticks” | 58 |
| “A chickadee!” | 62 |
| “Doing the excavating themselves” | 69 |
| Food for the Nuthatches | 76 |
| The Mourning-Cloak Butterfly, an Early Flitter | 77 |
| A Ruffed Grouse Trail | 78 |
| “The snow had melted from the river meadows” | 80 |
| “Carrying a big bob-tailed vole out of my ‘mowing’” | 85 |
| “Scurrying through the tops of some pitch pines” | 90 |
| “All the afternoon the crows have been going over” | 93 |
| The Duck-billed Platypus, or Duck-Bill | 97 |
| The Echidna, or Porcupine Ant-Eater | 98 |
| “Standing before a large ’possum” | 99 |
| “Out she spilled and nine little ’possums with her” | 100 |
| “A great blue heron would beat ponderously across” | 106 |
| Meadow Mouse—“In a drifting catbird’s nest” | 109 |
| “A little figure in yellow oil-skins” | 114 |
| “Drew a limp little form out of the water” | 121 |
| Quail—“One of the covey calling the flock together” | 127 |
| “A flock of robins dashing into the cedars” | 131 |
| Pussy-Willows and Watercress | 132 |
| “The hazelnut bushes are in bloom” | 133 |
| Bluebird—“Like a bit of summer sky” | 135 |
