INDEX 



Coyote, or prairie wolf, 82, 83, 189. 



Crab, hermit, 155. 



Crabs, defensive instinct in, 169, 

 170. 



Crossbills (Loxia sp.), feeding on 

 young peaches, 261. 



Crow, American (Corvus brachy- 

 rhynchos), winter quarters of, 

 50; the &quot;Hermit s &quot; story of a 

 crow, 93; nature of his intelli 

 gence, 136, 137; notes of, 188, 268; 

 story of a court of justice, 198, 

 199; maltreating a tame crow, 

 199; cunning of, 204; a misinter 

 preted incident, 233, 234 ; feed 

 ing, 265, 266; suspiciousness of, 

 266; flocking of, 266, 267; mean 

 ing of calls of, 268; disposition 

 of, 268; in Bermuda, 268; lines 

 on, 268. 



Crow, white-necked African, 135, 

 136. 



Crows and shell-fish, 2. 



Cuckoos, 249 ; eating birds eggs, 

 264; killed by robins, 264. 



Darwin, Charles, 65, 67, 73, 75, 76, 

 79, 82, 83, 87, 127, 136, 149, 177, 198. 



December, the month when Na 

 ture closes her doors, 47. 



Deer, 84, 85, 185. 



Dipper. See Water ouzel. 



Dogs, imitativeness of,66; show 

 gleams of reason, 76; 85,88; feel 

 ings of shame, guilt, and re 

 venge ascribed to, 144, 145; car 

 rying a stick through a fence, 

 164-16G; language of, 188; Mae 

 terlinck on, 192, 193 ; John Muir s 

 story of a dog, 193, 194; Egerton 

 Young s book about, 194 ; hiding 

 a bone, 205; companionableness 

 of, 205, 206; 211, 221 ; rational in 

 telligence in, 223-225; partake of 

 the master s nature, 224; story 

 of a pointer, 224, 225. 



Dove, turtle, or mourning dove 

 (Zenaidura macroura), occu 

 pying a robin s nest, 7. 



Duck. See Mallard. 



Duck, eider. See American eider. 



Duck, wild, wounded, 213. 

 Duck, wood (Aix sponsa), nest, 

 eggs, and young of, 21-23. 



Eagle, 103. 



Eagle, bald (Haliceetus leucoceph- 

 alus), 72, 213. 



Ears, movements of, 95. 



Eider, American (Somateria dres- 

 seri), killing mussels, 180-182. 



Elephants, 76 ; protecting them 

 selves from flies, 138; an incred 

 ible story, 145, 146. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24 ; his 

 lines on the sparrow s song, 32, 

 102. 



Evolution, 170, 171. 



Fabre, the French naturalist, 158. 



Farm, the author s, 101. 



Fear, instinctive, 74-76 ; use of, 

 89; indiscriminating, 89; panics, 

 90. 



Finch, purple (Carpodacus pur- 

 pureus), song flight of, 44; song 

 of, 44. 



Fish and glass, 127. 



Flocks, communication in, 96-98. 



Fly, mimicking the honey-bee, 

 250. 



Flycatcher, great crested (Myiar- 

 chus crinitus), nesting-habits of , 

 17-19. 



Forest and Stream, 69, 93. 



Fox, capturing a rabbit, 8; 72; 

 poisoning stories of, 105 ; stories 

 of crab-catching, 106, 107 ; intel 

 ligence of, 141, 142; misinter 

 preted stories of, 199; and dead 

 fall, 222, 223; cunning of, 223. 



Frog, wood, hibernation of, 48. 



Frogs, hibernation of, 49. 



Froude, 2. 



Fruits, colors of, 251-254. 



Golden-eye (Clangula clangitla 

 americana), young leaving 

 nest, 22. 



Goldfinch (Astra (jalinus tristis), 

 flight song of, 43, 44 ; other notes 

 of, 44 ; musical festivals of, 104. 



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