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INDEX 



Fear, contagion of, 232. 



Finley, William L., 7, 61, 63, 96, 

 97, 231-233; his story of the 

 egrets, 99-105. 



Fishes, at play, 167, 168; mother- 

 love in, 217-219. 



Flicker, 227. 



Flowers, on Mt. Hood, 151-153; 

 of the Wallowa Mountains, 

 179, 186. 



Fox, red, 84; playing with a golf- 

 ball, 166, 167; an instance of 

 mother-love, 221, 222. 



Foxhounds, 125. 



Glacier, on Mt. Hood, 154. 

 Goose, Canada, 77. 

 Grebe, eared, 107-114. 

 Guillemot, pigeon, 4, 21. 

 Gull, Western, 21, 24. 

 Gulls, 3, 4- 



Hare, little chief, 173-190. 



Heath hen, 34. 



Hen, adopting kittens, 224. 



Heron, night, 77. 



Heron, white. See Egret. 



Hibbard, Dr. L. E., his coyote 



and antelope story, 86-91. 

 Hippopotamus, 160. 

 Hogs, 126. 

 Hornpout, 218, 219. 

 Horse, Peroxide Jim, 134-143. 

 Hunter, the, cruelty of, 77, 78. 

 Hyrax, 183. 



Imnaha River, 173, 174, 179. 

 Infusorian, 163, 164. 



Jay, Oregon, or whiskey-jack, 40, 



41. 

 Joseph, Ore., 243. 



Killdeer, 231. 



Kipling, Rudyard, quoted, 189. 



Lake Malheur Reservation. See 



Malheur Lake Reservation. 

 Land, in Oregon, 242-244. 

 Lupton's Pond, N j., 219. 



Malheur Lake, among the birds 



of, 95-115- 

 Malheur Lake Reservation, 48, 



63, 97, 98. 

 Mallard, 77. 

 Mammals, mother-love in, 221- 



224. 



Minnows, 167, 168. 

 Mother Carey's Chickens, 193- 



197. See also Petrel, Kaeding's. 

 Mother-love, 109, no, 213-235. 

 Mt. Hood, 37; the ascent of, 147- 



159; storm on, 169, 170; and 



Portland, 239-245. 

 Muir, John, quoted, 36, 37. 

 Mules, 175. 

 Murre, California, 3, 4, 19-21, 24, 



205, 229; a mother murre, 230- 



235- 



Nighthawk, Western, 55. 

 Nutcracker, Clarke's, or Clarke's 

 Crow, 36, 37. 



Oregon, the land of, 242-244. 



Otter, 164, 165. 



Owl, burrowing, 55, 56. 



Paramcecium caudatum, 163, 164. 

 Pelican, white, 74, 80, 112. 

 Peroxide Jim, 134-143. 

 Petrel, Kaeding's, 25, 197-210. 

 Petrel, Leach's, 195. 

 Petrel, stormy, 196, 197. 



