INDEX 
Afschylus, 4, 147; his Agamemnon, 
143, 
Akers, Elizabeth, quotations from, 
108, 109. 
April, in praise of, 93,94; odors of, 
94; its place in the calendar, 95; | 
spring runs in, 96; sounds of, 96, | 
97; morning in, 97, 98; birds of, 
98-103; various phenomena of, 
104 ; infarm and garden, 105 ; the 
natal season, 105, 106; in poetry, 
107, 108. 
Apuleius, 112. 
Art, essence and aims of, 157 ; vague- 
ness and spirituality demanded 
in, 158. 
Audubon, John James, a poet, 1. 
Bacon, Francis, Taine on, 167, 168. 
Beauty, power the essential basis 
of, 149-153 ; and the old masters, 
149; attitude of the ancients to- 
wards, 149, 150; of nature, 150- 
154, 
Beuton, Myron, his Rumination 
quoted, 117. 
Bible, the, quotation from, 110. 
Birds, as inspirers and teachers of the 
poets, 1-3; poetry and music of 
the songless, 3, 4, 24; the senti- 
ment awakened by the aquatic, 
33, 34; expressive language of, 
37, 38; 40; the eyes of, 61 ; pleas- 
ures of an acquaintance with, 71, 
72; forever the same, 72, 73 ; sor- 
rowful or joyful associations with, 
73, 74; natural deaths among, 74, 
75; their use of river valleys as 
migration highways, 75; lack of 
coquetry in female, 76; in winter, 
80-84; the food question with, 
80, 81; songless in winter in the 
Northern States, 84; change of 
habits caused by settlement and 
cultivation of the country, 91; 
Pat April, 98-103; flight of large, 
Bittern, American (Botaurus lenti- 
ginosus), notes of, 4. 
Bjornson, Bjornstjerne, 113. 
; Blackbird, cow, or cowbird (Molo- 
thrus ater), breeding habits of, 
105 ; notes of, 103. 
Blackbird, European, in Tennyson 
and Shakespeare, 27, 28. 
Bluebird (Sialia sialis), in poetry, 
36, 75; wintering eighty miles 
north of New York city, 81, 82; 
notes of, 37, 82 ; nest of, 72. 
Bobolink (Dolichonyz oryzivorus), 
appearance and habits of, 17-19; 
song of, 17-19, 88-91; in litera- 
ture, 17, 19-21; 75, 77; individu. 
ality of, 89. 
Boy, the, a part of Nature, 64, 65; 
the natural history of, 65-69. 
Bryant, William Cullen, his Robert 
of Lincoln, 19, 20 ; his To a Water- 
Fowl, 33. 
Buchanan, Robert, on Walt Whit- 
man, 232. 
Bunting, snow, or snowflake (Plec- 
trophenax nivalis), 84. 
Burke, Edinund, 23. 
Burns, Robert, 109, 162, 200; quo- 
tation from, 4. 
Byron, Lord, 153, 161. 
Cardinal. See Grosbeak, cardinal. 
Carlyle, Thomas, and the larks, 71 ; 
his strength of character, 143, 
144; contrasted with Emerson, 
161, 162; 177; compared with 
Walt Whitman, 227. 
Cedar-bird or cedar waxwing (A mpe- 
lis cedrorum), 72, 81, 82. 
Celtis, 81, 82. 
Chat, yellow-breasted (Icteria vi- 
rens), notes of, 37. 
Chaucer, 109. 
Chewink, or towhee (Pipilo ery- 
throphthalmus), 98; appearance 
and habits of, 99; Thomas Jeffere 
