INDEX 



Ostrich, 134, 135. 



Ousel, water, or dipper, 73. 



Oven-bird (Seiurus aurocapillus), 

 walk of, 40; ordinary song of, 

 40, 41; flight song of, 41, 42. 



Peacock, strutting before a crow, 

 217. 



Peckham, George W. and Eliza 

 beth G., their work on the soli 

 tary wasps, 116. 



Pelicans, driving fish, 216. 



Phcebe-bird (tiayornis phoebe), 

 nesting-habits of, 5, 157, 158 ; 

 nest-building of, 112; cowbird s 

 egg in nest of, 157; an instance 

 of stupidity, 168, 169. 



Pigeon, passenger, or wild pigeon 

 (Ectopistes migratorius), flocks 

 of, 96, 97. 



Pike, 127. 



Plants, intelligence of, 128, 129. 



Plover, ring, rejecting counter 

 feit eggs, 227, 228. 



Poison, fear of, 140. 



Poisoning among animals, 105, 106. 



Porcupine, its lack of wit, 3; 186; 

 an encounter with a, 242-244; 

 easily killed, 244; stories of roll 

 ing into a ball, 244, 245 ; C. G. D. 

 Roberts on, 245, 246. 



Prairie-dogs, their fear of weeds 

 and grass, 189. 



Protective coloration, 139, 140. 



Quail, or bob- white (Colinus vir- 

 ginianus), nests of, 6. 



Rabbit, nest of, 7; intelligence of, 

 7 ; pursued by a mink or weasel, 

 7, 8; pursued by a fox, 8; imi 

 tating a monkey, 66. 



Rabbit, jack, 184 ; running in a 

 furrow, 213. 



Raccoon, washing food, 3; 134. 



Rats, 72, 73, 106, 184, 185. 



&quot;Real and Sham Natural His 

 tory,&quot; the author s article, v, vi. 



Reason, an artificial light, 212. 



Roberts, Charles G. D., on the por 

 cupine, 245, 246. 



Robin (Merula migratoria), nests 

 of, 4, 5, 169, 264, 265; unusual 

 songs of, 45, 68; 154, 155; nesting 

 on turn-table, 169; and string, 

 246, 247; variability of nesting- 

 habits of, 258, 259 ; closely asso 

 ciated with country life, 261, 

 262; boring for grubs, 262, 263; 

 pugnacity of, 263; at war with 

 blue jays, crow blackbirds, and 

 cuckoos, 263, 264; a hustler, 264, 

 265. 



Romanes, G. J., 15, 16, 73, 106, 142; 

 untrustworthiness of his Ani 

 mal Intelligence, 147, 148. 



Roosevelt, Theodore, his The Wil 

 derness Hunter, 72, 142; quoted 

 on teaching among animals, 84- 

 86; 88, 103; quoted on the moose, 

 142; 149; his story of a horse, 

 235. 



Rooster, &quot; teaching &quot; a young one, 

 94; calling a hen, 190. 



Ruskin, John, 197. 



St. John, Charles, 76; his story of 

 a fox, 142; 149. 



Sapsucker, yellow-bellied. See 

 Yellow-bellied woodpecker. 



Scallops, 129, 130. 



Schoolchildren, letters from, 1. 



&quot; School of the woods,&quot; the, 99. 



Scott, W. E. D., 68. 



Selous, Edmund, on a song con 

 test between nightingales, 115. 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 184, 203. 



Sexual selection, 116. 



Sharp, Dallas Lore, on the crested 

 flycatcher, 18. 



Shrike (Lanius sp.), assisting 

 wounded mate, 24; 250. 



Skunk, dull wits of, 4; killing a 

 maimed one, 203. 



Skunk-cabbage, 52. 



Skylark, song of, 32-34, 37; in 

 America, 33, 34; Scotchman and, 

 33 ; Irishman and, 34; wooing a 

 vesper sparrow, 40 ; a caged, 69. 



Snake, black, 16. 



Snakes, and the power of fasci 

 nation, 16. 



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