INDEX 
Ducks, wild (verses), 118. 
Dust baths, 62. 
E 
Educating adults, 92. 
Educating the growing generation, 
96. 
Education and the birds, 92. 
Elevated boards, 58. 
Enemies, natural, protecting the 
birds from their, 64. 
English sparrow, the, 9. 
English sparrow kept in check at 
Cheyenne, Wy., 75-79. 
English sparrow question, 72-79. 
English sparrow (verses), 111. 
Estimate of birds for Minnesota, 3. 
Europe, black stork of, 16. 
Evening grosbeaks eating snow, 43. 
Evergreens, planting of, 20. 
Experiment stations, agricultural, 
153. 
¥ 
False bittersweet (figure), 23. 
Farmers’ bulletins, 150. 
Feeding birds in public parks, 61. 
Feeding birds in winter, 46-61. 
Feeding house for birds (figure), 60. 
Feeding partridges, 59. 
Feeding-places, special, 58. 
Feeding prairie chickens, 59. 
Feeding quail, 59. 
Feeding ruffed grouse, 59. 
Fence, cat-proof (figure), 67. 
Fence of wire netting, 65. 
Field places, 58. 
Fish and hunt, is it right to, 126. 
Floating basins, 44. 
Floating bird basin (figure), 45. 
Flora, Illustrated. Britton and 
Brown, 22. 
Flora of the Southern United States. 
Chapman, 22. 
Flowers for hummingbirds, 27. 
Flowers, Wild, How to know the. 
Mrs. Dana, 22; Wild, of Califor- 
nia. Parson and Buck, 22. 
Flycatchers, shelf and laths for, 38. 
159 
Foliage, dense, and fruit, species 
offering, 26; species with dense, 
24. 
Food, song birds as, 90; the lack of, 
o: 
Fountains, drinking and bathing, 42. 
Foxes, 68. 
Fruit, species desirable on account 
OF, 25. 
Fruit and dense foliage, species offer- 
ing, 26. 
Fruit that ripens in summer or 
autumn, 25. 
Fruit that ripens late in autumn, 25. 
Furnishing trees, vines, and shrubs, 
19: 
Futterplitze fiir Vogel im Winter. 
Liebe, 63. 
G 
Game birds, the decrease of, 13. 
Game protection from the nature 
lover’s point of view, 126. 
Gartenvogel, Unsere  nitzlichen. 
robelt, 40. 
General directions for nesting boxes, 
33 
General suggestions on tree planting 
for birds, 28. 
Generation, educating the growing, 
96. 
Giessen, bird island at, 29. 
Gravel, 63. 
Gray. Manual of Botany, 22. 
Great blue heron (verses), 113. 
Green-winged teal, blue-winged or 
(verse), 104. 
Grosbeak, rose-breasted (verse), 104. 
Grosbeaks, evening, eating snow, 43. 
Growing generation, educating the, 
96. 
Gunners, ubiquitous, 87. 
H 
Hats, birds on, 9, 81. 
Hawks, 68. 
Heron, great blue (verses), 113; 
snowy (verses), 103. 
