INDEX 



Acorns, 11. 



Adder's-tongue, 28. 



Agassiz, Louis, 31. 



Ancieuts, false science of the, 18-20. 



Anemone, 169, 170. 



Ants, as weather prophets, 7. 



Apples, frozen, 49, 50, 54, 134. 



April, the relish of, 164 ; cresses in, 



164, 165 ; arrival of birds in, 166, 



167 ; the flowers of, 169-171 ; 



green landscapes of, 171-173; 



swelling buds in, 173-177. 

 Arbutus, trailing, 28, 169. 

 Arnold, Matthew, quotation from, 



159. 



Ash, black, 260, 261. 

 Audubon, John James, 169. 



Bald Mountain, 122-124. 



Barns, Dutch, 222-224; old un- 

 painted, 223, 224 ; modern painted, 

 224 ; building, 228, 229 ; moving, 

 229, 230 ; roofs of, 252. 



Bear, black (Ursus americanus), 

 the rifleman and the bear, 116, 

 117 ; 119 ; sagacity of a mother, 

 120, 121 ; 122, 123. 



Bee. See Bumblebee and Honey- 

 bee. 



Bee, carpenter, 176. 



Beech-nuts, 11. 



Birch, paper or canoe, uses of, 99- 

 103. 



Birch, red or cherry, 260, 261. 



Birds, winter flocks of, 61 ; their 

 lives subject to many dangers, 

 63-65 ; the home instinct in, 63 ; 

 dangers to early nests, 65 ; loca- 

 tions of nests, 71 ; position of the 

 female among, 137 ; spring ar- 

 rival of, 1G6, 167 ; silence and 

 songs of migrating, 167, 168 ; bat- 

 tles between female, 168, 169; 

 chatter and silence of young, 

 203 ; their sufferings from ver- 

 min, 204, 205; collectors among 

 the worst enemies of, 210-214 ; 



milliners as the enemies of, 21* j 

 charmed by snakes, 215-217. 



Birds of prey, 83. 



Birthroot. See Trillium, purple. 



Bitter-sweet, 11, 51. 



Blackbird, red-winged. See Star- 

 ling, red-shouldered. 



Black-thorn, 169. 



Bladder-nut, 11. 



Bladderwort, horned, 26, 124, 125. 



Blind miller, a, 30. 



Blood-root, 28, 170, 173. 



Blueberry, 123. 



Bluebird (Sialia sialis), 60, 66, 67, 

 91, 132 ; wintering in New York 

 State, 164; battle between rival 

 females, 168, 169 ; 204 ; notes of, 

 1G9 ; nest of, 65. 



Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus), 

 63, 82-84 ; notes of, 83; nest of, 

 81-83. 



Bob-white. See Quail. 



Bryant, William Cullen, his Yellow 

 Violet, 26, 27 ; his hymn to the 

 sea, 157, 158. 



Buds of trees, 173-177. 



Bullfrog, 164. 



Bumblebee, the sapper and miner 

 preceding the honey-bee, 17. 



Bunting, indigo. See Indigo-bird. 



Bunting, snow, or snowflake (Plec- 

 trophenax nivalis), 57, 127, 134, 

 238 



Burns, Robert, quotation from, 93. 



Butternuts, 55, 56. 



Butternut-tree, 259; the wood of, 

 260, 261. 



Buttonwood. See Plane-tree, Amer- 

 ican. 



Byron, Lord, 159. 



Camp, a whiter, 121, 122. 



Camping, in Maine, 99-126; com- 

 fortable beds, 105, 106. 



Canary, 204. 



Canoe, the birch-bark, 101-103, 109, 

 112, 113. 



