INDEX 
Infinite, the, 44. 
Ingelow, Jean, 121. 
Jefferson, Thomas, his experience 
with the chewink, 99, 100. 
Jonson, Ben, 5. 
Keats, John, 3, 7. 
Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), 29. 
Kingsley, Charles, 2. 
Lamb, Charles, his spiritual kin- | 
ship with Thoreau, 48, 49. 
Lark. See Skylark. 
Lark, shore or horned (Otocoris al- 
pestris), 16. 
Lathrop, George Parsons, his poem, 
The Sparrow, 35, 36. 
Lincoln, Abraham, 145, 146. 
Literature, American, decline of 
unctuous and sympathetic humor 
in, 49-51; lack of strength and 
originality in, 144-146. 
Lizard, 40. 
Locust, 5. 
Logan, John, his poem, Zo the 
Cuckoo, 22, 23 
Loon (Urinator imber), habits of, 
58-60 ; notes of, 4, 33, 58, 60 
Lowell, James Russell, quotation 
from, 36. 
Lyly, John, quotations from, 16, 23. 
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 144. 
Man, his relation to Nature, 41-44 ; 
his various attitudes towards Na- 
ture, 47, 48; his sympathy with 
the weather, 55, 56; in Walt Whit- 
man’s poetry, 201-207, 213-215; 
and science, 220. 
Manliness more essential than gen- 
ius and culture, 139-149. 
Martial, 6. 
Meadowlark (Sturnella magna), ap- 
pearance and habits of, 101, 102 ; 
notes of, 38, 91, 101, 102. 
Michael Angelo, 161. 
Milton, John, quotation from, 6, 
153, 171. 
Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), 
90 ; song of, 7, 8; in poetry, 8-12. 
Mowing-machine, poetry of the, 54, 
55. 
Nature, the balance of, 39, 40; im- 
partiality of, 41 , selfishness of, 42 ; 
man’s relation to, 41-44; man’s 
various attitudes towards, 47, 48 ; 
man’s sympathy with her moods, 
55, 56; the boy’s attitude to- 
239 
wards, 64, 65; the beauty of, 150, 
151; 154; underlying power of, 
153; the poetical interpretation 
of, 154; the two types in, 155; 
perpetual transition, 156. 
Nightingale, 3,5; in English poetry, 
6, 7, 26; color, habits, and song 
OL sibe 
Odors of April, 94. 
Oriole, Baltimore (Icterus galbula), 
73, 74. 
Ornithologists, poets in deed if not 
in word, 1. 
Oven - bird or golden - crowned 
thrush (Seiurus aurocapillus), 
song of, 16. 
Owl, the, celebrated by the poets, 
24, 26; habits of, 25; 39. 
Ox, the, 119, 120. 
Partridge. See Grouse, ruffed. 
Pewee, wood (Coniopus virens), ap- 
pearance and habits of, 28 ; notes 
of, 28, 29. 
Phedrus, 5. 
Pheebe-bird (Sayornis phoebe), 29; 
nest of, 72. 
Pigeon, passenger (Hctopistes mi« 
gratorius), 75; migrations of, 77, 
78; the last flight in the valley of 
the Hudson, 78; notes of, 77. 
Pipit, American, or titlark (Ane 
thus pensilvanicus), 16, 
Pipit, Sprague’s (Anthus spragueii), 
17 
Poetry, lack of power in current, 
152; vital fluid necessary to, 155, 
156 ; form in, 194-196 ; science in, 
215-224, 
Poets, inspired and taught by the 
birds, 1-3; the ancient poets and 
the birds, 3, 4; the Greek poets 
and the music of nature, 5, 6; 
and the nightingale, 6, 7 ; and the 
mockingbird, 8-12; and the sky- 
lark, 12-16 ; and the bobolink, 17, 
19-21; and the cuckoo, 21-24; 
and the owl, 24-26; their know- 
ledge of Nature, 48; ancient and 
modern, 139-141; Emerson on, 
171, 174. 
Pope, Alexander, 109. 
Quail, or bob-white (Colinus™ vire 
ginianus), 81. 
Railroad, the, an heroic element of 
the landscape, 52, 53. 
Redpoll (Acanthis linaria), 83. 
