INDEX 



Catskills, the, the author's farm in, 

 24-17; age of, 37-39. 



Cause, first, 222. 



Cells, 18-21, 92. 



Chickadee (Pentheates atricapillus) , 

 249. 



Children, 6, 7. 



Chimpanzee, 114, 115. 



Chipmunk, 106, 114, 153, 254; win- 

 ter stores, 46, 47, 243, 244, 285; 

 watchfulness, 9, 4, 95; catch- 

 ing a flying grasshopper, 110; 

 a timid, 111; method of excava- 

 ting winter quarters, 238-242, 

 245, 246; leaving no trail, 239, 

 240; dug out of its hole, 243; 

 245; wintering, 245, 285; and 

 weasel, 277. 



Civilization, and science, 66-68. 



Clifford, W. K, 50. 



Cock, 193. 



Color, and color-blindness, 194- 

 196. 



Coon. See Raccoon. 



Copperhead, 285. 



Cows, in the pastoral landscape, 

 31-33; landscape gardeners, 128, 

 129. 



Crab, hermit, 202, 203. 



"Creative Evolution," by Henri 

 Bergson, 71-73, 91 note. 



Creeper, brown (Certhia familiaris 

 americana), and shrike, 288, 289. 



Crossbill (Loxia sp.), eating peach 

 blossoms, 161. 



Crow, American (Cormis brachy- 

 rhynchos), a true countryman, 39; 

 in early morning, 40; mass meet- 

 ings, 40, 41; sociability, 41, 42; 

 bearing, 42; talkativeness, 43; 

 training a marsh hawk, 102, 103; 

 business, 103, 104; character, 104; 

 adaptiveness in regard to food, 

 146; feeding young, 253; way of 

 carrying things, 256. 



Dandelion, seed and the birds, 254. 



Darwin, Charles, his imagination, 

 63; and the religious attitude of 

 mind, 69; an observation of his, 

 146; his sexual selection theory, 

 194-197. 



Dogs, dog and wood chuck, 29; re- 

 sponsiveness, 131, 132; blood- 

 relationship to man, 132; intel- 

 lectuality, 132, 133; psychologi- 

 cal experiments on, 191, 192; in- 

 fluence of domestication upon, 

 201 ; learning from man, 207, 208; 

 a singing dog, 208; a dog eating a 

 mushroom, 211. 



Ducks, young, and water, 164, 165. 



Eliot, George, quoted, 25. 



Elm, seeds and squirrels, 254, 255. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 

 25, 33, 127, 256, 282, 283; and 

 science, 70, 71. 



Evolution, the paths'of, 17; extrin- 

 sic conditions and intrinsic neces- 

 sity in, 87-92; its wayward, blun- 

 dering course, 91. 



Farmer, the, 34-36. 



Farms, East and West, 36-39. 



Finch, purple (Carpodacus purpu* 



reus), 254. 



Fiske, John, quoted, 173. 

 Flicker. See Highhole. 

 Fox, eating corn, 161; power of 



sight, 192; in winter, 286. 

 Frog, wood, 284. 

 Frogs, hearing of, 199. 



Goethe, quoted, 61. 



Goldenrod, 236. 



Goldfinch, American (Astragalinus 



tristis), 254. 

 "Graphic," the London, quoted, 



281. 

 Grasshoppers, 281. 



Habit, not the key to animal be- 

 havior, 156-174; formation of, 

 167. 



Haeckel, Ernest, 50. 



Hare, 286. 



Hare, European, chased by stoat, 

 280, 281. 



Hare, little chief, haymaking, 144. 



Hawk, marsh (Circus hudsonius), 

 hunting, 102; and crows, 102, 103. 



Hawk, sharp-shinned (Accipitw 

 velox), 97, 103. 



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