2 5 8 
INDEX 
20'; perfumed (Osmoderma scabei], 
133 ; blue oil, 239. 
Bellworts, 44. 
Bigelow, Hosea, quoted, 224. 
Billings, Josh, quoted, 92, 124. 
Birds' - nests, materials of: milk- 
weed bark, toad-skins, and snake- 
skins, 171, 172 ; twine and horse- 
hair, caterpillar-skins, 172 ; wool, 
dandelion seeds, 173; gray lichens 
and seeds, 177. 
Black-paper hornet, his bad reputa- 
tion, 94 ; a tempting target ; re- 
sults of an attack on his house, 
96 ; making themselves promiscu- 
ous ; the stoical bachelor, 97 ; his 
discomfiture, 98 ; antics explained; 
his hiding - place revealed, 100 ; 
favorite hunting-ground, 101 ; oc- 
casional big game ; life of; manner 
of laying eggs ; several broods in a 
season, 102 ; number of tiers in a 
nest ; winter the best time to ex- 
amine nests, 103. 
Black snake, 85. 
Blossom etiquette, 221, 222. 
Blue carnation, 46. 
Blue dahlia, 45. 
Blue oil beetle, 239. 
Blue pansies, 46. 
Blue rose, 45, 46. 
Blue tulip, 45. 
Bluets, Houstonia, 24, 208, 
209. 
Boletus, 142. 
Bridge-building spiders, 104. 
Brooklyn Bridge, 104 ; ' ' carrier " 
or " traveller " should have been 
called "spider," 105; Engineer 
Farrington crossing, no. 
Brown screech-owl, 151. 
Browning, Robert, quoted, 26. 
" Bull's-eye " caterpillar, 156. 
Bumble-bee, 6, 91. 
Butterflies asleep at night, 168. 
Butterflies: Idalia (Argynnis ida- 
lia), Archippus (Danais archip- 
pus\ yellow swallow-tails {Papilio 
turnus}, 131 ; Red Admiral ( Va- 
nessa Atalanta), 155, 158, 161 ; 
"comma" {Vanessa comma), 156, 
161, 170; Atalanta (Cynthia Ata~ 
lanfa), 158; semicolon (Vanessa 
interrogationis), 161. 
CANTERBURY bells, 42. 
Cardanus quoted, 93. 
Careless observation of nature, 185, 
1 86. 
Carnation, blue, 46. 
Catbrier, 188. 
Caterpillars : woolly - bear {Arcti- 
ada;), 148; "bull's-eye" (Satur- 
nia To), 156; sphinx (Chczrocampa 
panipenatrix, 241. 
Cecropia, 156. 
Chinese pink, 73. 
Chipmonk, 153. 
Chrysalids, 161. 
Chrysanthemum, 86, 127. 
Cicada, 87, 246 ; his manner of feed- 
ing ; how he differs from the grass- 
hopper ; the secret of his music, 
250 ; his last song ; borne off by 
his captor, 251 ; living food, 254; 
suspended animation, 255. 
Clintonia, 239. 
Clothes moth (Tineidtz), 170. 
Clover ( Trifolium ), four - leaved, 
215; nine-leaved, found in groups, 
216 ; possibilities of cultivation, 
217 ; an exceptional find, 218, 
