238 
son’s experience with, 99, 100; 
notes of, 100. 
Chickadee (Parus atricapillus), an 
Emersonian bird, 31; Emerson’s 
poem on, 31-33 ; 84. 
Chloe, the history of, 128-132. 
Cicada, 5 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quota- 
tion from, 7. 
Cowper, William, quotation from, 4. 
Cow, the, and her cud, 62; a pic- 
turesque animal, 115; in litera- 
ture, 116, 117, 121, 122; lowing 
of, 116, 117; in mythology, 118; 
in Norway, 120; her manner of 
feeding, 121; in parable and pro- 
verb, 121; her wild instincts, 125, 
126. 
Cows, ring-leaders, masters, and 
bullies among, 122-125; as tres- 
passers, 126, 127; the history of 
Chloe, 128-132; in Washington, 
128-138 ; a Virginia cow, 133, 134 ; 
aoe of a blind cow, 135- 
138. 
Crow, American (Corvus ameri- 
canus), 39, 75; notes of, 38. 
Cuckoo, American, 21; appearance 
and habits of, 24; notes of, 24. 
Cuckoo, European, in poetry, 21- 
24; notes of, 23; 104. 
Dante, 153, 161, 175. 
Darwin, Charles, his theory of sex- 
ual selection, 18. 
Dickens, Charles, 143. 
Dove, mourning (Zenaidura ma- 
croura), notes of, 103. 
Eagle, 3,4; among crows, 44. 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, his Hum- 
ble-Bee, 31; his Titmouse, 31-33 ; 
his poetry, 31; quotations from, 
32, 33, 41, 74, 75, 112, 116; 129, 142; 
@ representative of the national 
type, 159; his refinement and 
condensation, 159-161; the mas- 
ter Yankee, 162; his alertness, 
162, 163; his epigrammatic style, 
163, 164; his physiognomy, 164, | 
165 ; surprise his weapon, 166, 167 ; 
his ancestry, 168, 169; the fruit of 
extreme culture, 169, 170; on the 
poets, 171, 174; his poetry, 172, 
173 ; his limitations, 173-176; his 
over-refinement, 177; deficient in 
sympathy, 178-180; the prophet 
and philosopher of youth and gen- 
jus, 180-184; his refining influ- 
ence, 203. 
INDEX 
Everett, Edward, 146. 
Eye, the, in mammals and birds, 
60, 61. 
Fish, 39. 
Flagg, Wilson, his poem, The O’Lin- 
coln Family, quoted, 20, 21; 115. 
Flicker. See High-hole. 
Flycatcher, great crested (Myiar- 
chus crinitus), 28; notes of, 28, 
29. 
ok haar characteristics of, 28, 
2 
Frogs. See Hyla. 
Frost, 56, 57. 
Gilder, Richard Watson, his New 
Day, 1138. 
Goethe, 48, 55, 161. 
Goose, Canada (Branta canadensis), 
a flock of, 78; notes of, 4. 
Grass in April, 96. 
oeeceuper of Greek poetry, the, 
nos 
Grecian profile, the, 63, 64. 
Greeks, their attitude towards 
beauty, 150; their practical and 
objective minds, 157. 
Grosbeak, cardinal, or cardinal 
(Cardinalis cardinalis), notes of, 
Grosbeak, pine (Pinicola enuclea- 
tor), 82, 83. 
Grouse, ruffed (Bonasa umbellus), 
75, 81; drumming of, 95. 
Gulls, crooning of, 4. 
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 116. 
Hawk, 4 
Heat, in winter, 57. 
Heroic sights and sounds, 52-54, 
High-hole, or yellow-hammer, or 
golden - shafted woodpecker, or 
flicker (Colaptes auratus), 81, 
102; notes of, 102. 
Hogg, James, quotation from, 13. 
Homer, 3; his Jliad, the great ver- 
nal poem, 112; 141, 143, 153, 171, 
214. 
Hood, Thomas, quotation from, 7. 
Hornets, black, a colony of, 45- 
47. 
Horse, the, 118, 119. 
Hudson River valley, a great natural 
highway for birds, 75. 
Hummingbird, ruby-throated (Tro- 
chilus colubris), 36, T5. 
Humor, 49-51. 
Hyla, green, 97 and note, 
Hyla, Pickering’s, 95-97. 
