Part 3

LABRADOR 401

THE EGGERS OF LABRADOR 406

THE SQUATTERS OF LABRADOR 411

COD FISHING 418

A BALL IN NEWFOUNDLAND 426

THE BAY OF FUNDY 431

A FLOOD 437

THE SQUATTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI 443

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NAVIGATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI 449

KENTUCKY SPORTS 455

THE TRAVELLER AND THE POLE-CAT 462

DEER HUNTING 466

THE ECCENTRIC NATURALIST 473

SCIPIO AND THE BEAR 481

A KENTUCKY BARBECUE 486

A RACCOON HUNT IN KENTUCKY 490

PITTING OF WOLVES 497

THE OPOSSUM 501

A MAPLE-SUGAR CAMP 506

THE WHITE PERCH AND ITS FAVORITE BAIT 509

THE AMERICAN SUN PERCH 515

MY STYLE OF DRAWING BIRDS 522

INDEX 529

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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EMBERIZA TOWNSENDII (NOW SPIZA TOWNSENDII), TOWNSEND'S BUNTING Frontispiece From an unfinished drawing by J. J. Audubon of the only specimen ever known. Shot May 11, 1833, in Chester County, Pa., by J. K. Townsend.

AUDUBON 84 From the pencil sketch by Isaac Sprague, 1842. In the possession of the Sprague family, Wellesley Hills, Mass.