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INDEX. 



decides to remove, 81. 

 teasing the thrush, 83. 

 graceful attack, 83. 

 a change of tactics, 84. 

 a determined enemy, 85. 

 gracefulness, 85. 

 bewitching ways, 86. 

 expression of feathers, 86. 

 the looking-glass, 87. 

 manner of dressing, 89. 

 lifting the wings, 89. 

 steel pen, 89. 

 attack on the parrot, 90. 

 never startled, 91. 

 caught under a shawl, 91. 

 mad frolics, 92. 

 fury of play, 92. 

 reducing the finch to silence, 93. 

 mischief, not malice, 93. 

 Mexican thrush, 77, 83. 



Nonpareil, 28. 

 Nuthatch baby ways, 12. 

 visited by orioles, 138. 



Orchard Orioles, 131. 



characteristics, 131, 132. 

 persistent singers, 131. 

 making themselves conspicuous, 



132. 

 annoying ways, 132. 

 shouting the news, 133. 

 trouble in the family, 133. 

 plumage, 133, 134. 

 two suitors to one maid, 134. 

 he will have his way, 134. 

 she flew for her life, 134. 

 voice of female, 135. 

 beauty of female, 135. 

 restless manners, 135. 

 a war dance, 136. 

 an anti-climax, 137. 

 a meek damsel, 137. 

 inquisitive, 138. 

 visiting the mocking - bird's 



nest, 138. 

 visiting nuthatches, 138. 

 interested in me, 139. 

 the crisis, 139. 

 nesting time begun, 139. 

 matters settled, 140. 

 the honeymoon, 140. 

 submitting to the inevitable, 



140. 

 nest building, 140. 

 precipitate wooing, 141. 

 grumbling husbands, 141. 

 a feathered thief, 142. 

 the end was not yet, 142. 

 with a grasshopper, 201. 



Pewee, baby ways, 15. 



learning to hover, 16. 

 Plover, 24. 

 Purple Crow Blackbird. 



in trouble, 4. 



launching the infants, 5. 



blackbird babies, 7. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 239. 



dress ; characters, 239. 



manner of eating, 240. 



about the room, 240. 



a creature of habit, 240. 



intelligence, 241. 



had his own opinion, 241. 



change of place, 242. 



contented and happy, 242. 



a silent bird, 243. 



queer noises, 243. 



disturbed by an owl, 243. 



song, 244-249. 



the looking-glass, 244. 



posturing, 245. 



curious movements, 246. 



bathing, 246. 



color, 247. 



night, 248. 



never playful, 249. 

 Robin baby ways, 14, 47. 

 Robin called in by Cardinal, 211-214. 



Scarlet Tanager and English Gold- 

 finch, 224. 

 dress and manners, 224. 

 parties to the friendship, 224. 

 dislike to confinement, 224. 

 coming out, 225. 

 the window glass, 226. 

 the finch flies at him, 226. 

 giving up the world, 227. 

 dislike to be looked at, 227. 

 first sign of friendship, 228. 

 the smallest bird, 228. 

 progress of the friendship, 228. 

 the tanager's boundary, 229. 

 becoming protector, 229. 

 beginning to talk, 229. 

 perching outside, 230. 

 around the room, 231. 

 in a strange cage, 231. 

 on the floor, 231. 

 driving the Brazilian, 232. 

 the robin interferes, 232. 

 the finch goes for him, 233. 

 a new roof, 233. 

 the mischievous robin, 234. 

 approach of spring, 234. 

 offensive operations, 235. 

 anxious to go, 235. 

 belligerent, 235. 



