INDEX 



Physics, reveals the spiritual side 



of matter, 191, 192. 

 Pigeon, passenger, migrating armies, 



3-5; last seen, 4. 

 Poets, and nature, 221-23. 

 Psychic life, origin of, 266. 

 Puffin, 113. 

 Puma, cry, 126. 



Quail, or bob- white, 154, 155. 



Rabbit, 156. 



Raccoon, 30, 197; rooting stones, 

 295. 



Raspberry, black, 39. 



Realism, 237-40. 



Reason, 266, 324, 327. 



Redpoll, yellow. See Warbler, yel- 

 low palm. 



Redstart, 15; gymnastics, 8, 9. 



Religion, and science, 242, 243; ten- 

 dency and source, 320. 



Reproduction, 277, 278. 



Right, and might, 280-84; and 

 wrong, 282. 



Riverside, Cal., 180. 



Robin, 17, 98, 280; a quarrel with 

 bluebirds, 66, 67; attacking a jay, 

 67; use of white materials in nest, 

 71. 



Rodents, diversity amid unity 

 among, 161, 162. 



Roosevelt, Theodore, 297. 



St. Augustine, 327. 



St. Francis of Assisi, 88. 



St. John's River, Florida, 274. 



Sapsucker, yellow-bellied, drum- 

 ming, 97. 



Science, pleasure in, 174-77; and 

 literature, 235; and religion, 242, 

 243; and love of nature, 252, 253. 



Sea-robin, 294. 



Sea squirt, 273. 



Seals, intelligence, 293, 294. 



Seeds, various methods of dispersal, 

 33-39. 



Seeing, 327. 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 31. 



Skunk, 31, 156. 



Snake, garter, amusing behavior, 

 116, 117. 



Snow, tracks in, 209, 242. 



Sparks, 322. 



Sparrow, chipping, nest, 106; con- 

 trasted with the field sparrow, 

 172, 173; song, 172; nest-building, 

 194. 



Sparrow, English, 280. 



Sparrow, field, or bush sparrow, con- 

 trasted with the chipping spar- 

 row, 172, 173; song, 172, 173; 

 nest, 173. 



Sparrow, fox, 18; strange conduct 

 of a bird in an aviary, 86-88. 



Sparrow, Savannah, 60. 



Sparrow, song, 7, 92, 93; nests, 55- 

 58, 104; a fussy mother, 56-58; 

 contrasted with the vesper spar- 

 row, 168-72; songs, 169-71, 289; 

 nest, 172. 



Sparrow, vesper, singing, 97; con- 

 trasted with the song sparrow, 

 168-72; song, 171; nest, 171, 172. 



Sparrow, white-crowned, 18. 



Sparrow, white-throated, 18. 



Spider, jumping, 51. 



Spiders, eyes, 51 ; cocoons and eggs, 

 51, 52; wisdom and stupidity, 139. 



Spring, a backward, 14-17. 



Squirrel, flying, 156. 



Squirrel, gray, 156, 159, 195. 



Squirrel, red, 156, 157, 159, 195, 197, 

 198. 



Stone Mountain, 179. 



Stork, 91. 



Style, 233-35. 



Swallow, barn, 75; pleasing ways, 

 198, 199; nesting-habits, 199,200; 

 notes, 199, 200; and the cat, 201; 

 feeding young, 201. 



Swallow, cliff, 194. 



Swans, in flight, 6. 



Symonds, John Addington, on Whit- 

 man, 227. 



Tanager, scarlet, 10, 11, 55; song, 



93; rival singers, 100. 

 Temple, Sir William, 296. 

 Tennyson, Alfred, quoted, 7, 241, 



314. 



Tertiary period, 261. 

 Thoreau, Henry D., his Journal, 



193; his description of the battle 



of the ants, 193. 

 Thorn, red, 39, 40. 



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