240 
Robin, American (Merula migrato- 
ria), 72; April’s bird, 75, 76; as 
warrior and lover, 76; 77; song 
af, 37 ; nest of, 72, 76. 
Romans, the first to separate beauty 
from use, 149. 
Sandpiper, spotted, or ‘‘tip-up”’ 
(Actitis macularia), 34. 
Sandpiper, The, by Celia Thaxter, 
33-35. 
Sandpipers, characteristics of, 34. 
Sappho, 5 
Science, contrasted with art, 157; 
in poetry, 215-224. 
Scott, Sir Walter, 143, 162, 201. 
Selection, sexual, theory of, 18. 
Shakespeare, 6; quotations from, 
16, 25, 26, 28; 107, 109, 153, 155, 
156, 161, 169; Emerson’s opinion 
of, 171, 174; 172, 175, 214. 
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 3; his To a 
Skylark, 13, 14. 
Skunk (Mephitis mephitica), 40. 
Skylark, 3; in English poetry, 12- 
16, 26, 27; habits and song of, 12, 
18, 16, 90, 91; as a mimic, 90. 
Snake, black, 40. 
Snake, garter, 40, 41. 
Snakes, 104. 
Snow, deadening influence of, 55, 
56 ; only a thin veil, 62, 63. 
Socrates, 5. 
Solomon, quotation from, 110. 
Sparrow, social or chipping (Spi- 
zella socialis), nest of, 72. 
Sparrow, song (Melospiza fasciata), 
George Parsons Lathrop’s poem 
on, 35, 36 ; song of, 86, 87 ; nest of, 
86, 87. 
Sparrow, tree or Canada (Spizella 
monticola), 83. 
Sparrow, vesper (Podcetes grami- 
neus), song of, 86. 
Sparrow, white-crowned (Zonotri- 
chia leucophrys), appearance and 
habits of, 85; song of, 85, 86 
Sparrow, white-throated (Zonotri- 
chia albicollis), song of, 85, 86. 
Sparrow, characteristics of, 86, 87. 
Spenser, 109. 
Spring, the coming of, 78-80; in 
poetry, 107-113; the charms of, 
109, 110. 
Spring runs, in April, 96. 
Steamer, moving a sunken, 53, 54. 
Strawberry, 95. 
Sugar-berry, 81, 82. 
Swallow, the, a favorite bird with 
Tennyson, 27 ; 36, 95, 104. 
INDEX 
Swallow, barn (Chelidon erythro- 
gaster), 75; nest of, 91. 
Swallow, chitiney, or chimney 
swift (Chetura pelagica), 72, 75 ; 
a flock retiring for the night, 92 ; 
nest of, 91. 
Swallow, cliff (Petrochelidon luni- 
Jrons), notes of, 73; nest of, 73. 
Swift, chimney. See Swallow, 
chimney. 
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, on Ba- 
con, 167, 168 
Tennyson, Alfred, quotations from, 
26, 27, 107, 108, 221, 222; a care- 
ful observer, 27; an autumnal 
poet, 112; 122, 153, 156; Emer- 
son’s opinion of, 174; science in 
his poems, 221, 222. 
ee Celia, her Sandpiper, 33- 
Thomson, James, 109. 
Thoreau, Henry D., 37; his spirit- 
ual kinship with Charles Lamb, 
48, 49; 145; his Maine Woods, 
146; on Walt Whitman, 189. 
Thrasher, brown, o7 long-tailed 
thrush (Harporhynchus rufus), 
98, 99; the great American chip- 
per, 98; song of, 37, 98. 
eee ps golden-crowned. See Oven- 
ird. 
Thrush, hermit (Turdus aonalasch- 
ke pallasi‘), in Walt Whitman’s 
President Lincoln’s Burial Hymn, 
36, 37; 72; song of, 36. 
Thrush, wood (Turdus mustelinus), 
95; song of, 36, 88. 
Tip-up. See Sandpiper, spotted. 
Titlark. See Pipit, American. 
Towhee. See Chewink. 
Trowbridge, John T., his poem on 
the wood pewee quoted, 29-31; 
122. 
Turgenieff, 113, 149. 
Turner, J. M. W., anecdote of, 14. 
Turtles, 105. 
Warbler, pine (Dendroica vigorsit), 
74 
Washington, D. C., the Arcadian 
age at, 130. 
Water-thrush, 16. 
Weather, man’s sympathy with, 55, 
56. 
Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vocif= 
erus), 95. 
White, a negative color, 56. 
Whitman, Walt, quotations from, 
9-12, 149, 191, 192, 195, 198, 199, 
