INDEX 



Wasps, solitary, ways of, 116-118; 

 instinct in, 158, 159; intelligence 

 of, 164. 



Wasps, stinging instinct in sting- 

 less, 169, 170. 



Waxwing, cedar. See Cedar-bird. 



Weasel, rescuing young, 24. 



White, Gilbert, on the swallow s 

 nest-building, 167, 168; 203; his 

 account of his old tortoise, 207. 



Whitman, Walt, quoted, 206. 



Wolf, prairie. See Coyote. 



Wolves, 66. 



Wood-borers, 49, 50. 



Woodchuck, 72. 



Woodcock (Philohela minor), 

 song and song flight of, 42, 43. 



Woodpecker, downy (Dryobates 



pubescens medianits), dispos 

 sessed by flying-squirrels, 20; 

 trying to evict a hairy wood 

 pecker, 21. 



Woodpecker, hairy (Dry abates 

 villosus), and downy woodpeck 

 er, 21. 



Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or 

 yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphy- 

 rapicus varius), 91. 



Wren, European, nest of, 138. 

 139. 



Wren, house ( Troglodytes aedon), 

 nesting-materials of, 19; young 

 of, 162; handling twigs, 166. 



Young, Egerton, his My Dogs of 

 the Northland, 194. 



