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INDEX. 



Grebes, nests, 3 53 



range, 352 

 Grosbeaks, 292 

 Ground beetles, 69, 71 

 Grubs, 73 



bird enemies, 74 

 Gulls, 347, 348 

 Gypsy moth, 70, 137 



Hairy woodpecker, 74, 118, '257, 



2 94 



Halteres, 184 

 Hand lens, 51 



Handmaid moth, larva, 134 

 Harmful flies, 188, 204 

 Harvestmen, 235 

 Hawks, 258 



marsh, 137, 164, 258, 292 

 night, 97, 313 

 red-tail, 137, 258, 292 

 sparrow, 97, 258, 291 

 Hearing : 



birds, 299 

 insects, 17 

 Heart : 



insects, 23 

 Hemiptera, 107 



beak of, 99, 108 

 beneficial, 109, 112, 114,117 

 characteristics, 105 

 development, 109 

 divisions of order, 107 

 food habits, 108, 109 

 harmful sorts, 1 1 8 

 setting for collection, 104 

 Hepialidae, 129 

 Herodiones, 331 

 Herons, 332 

 Hesperornis, 254, 354 

 Hessian fly, 191 



development, 191 

 measures against, 192 

 natural enemies, 192 

 Hippelates, 192 

 Homing instinct, n, 13, 139, 



Honey, 157 

 Honey ants, 166 

 Honeybees, 155 

 House fly, 188, 190 



measures against, 190 



metamorphosis, 190 

 House wren, 97, 118, 137 



Horse fly, 184, 188 

 Humming bird, 312, 315 

 Hunter, the Fiery, 70 

 Hypermetamorphosis, 34 

 Hymenoptera, 43, 149 



characteristics, 147 



subordination of males, 1 554 

 168, 173 



metamorphosis, i 54 



mouth-parts, 153 



ovipositor, 154 



sense powers, 156 



wing action, 152 



Ibis, white-faced glossy, 333 

 Ichneumon flies, 149, 150 

 Ichthyornis, 256, 354 

 Incubation, 281 

 Incomplete metamorphosis, 40 

 Industries of the hive, 162 

 Insect net, 49 

 Insects, 2, 238 

 Isoptera, 44 



Jigger fleas, 226 

 Jointer spiders, 235 



characteristics, 235 



palpi, 236 

 Jugatae, 129 

 June bug, 59, 74, 78 



bird enemies, 74 



Katydids, 87, 91 



bird enemies, 97 

 Key to families of spiders, 246 

 Killing bottle, 51 

 Kingbird, 74, 97, 291 

 Kingfisher, 313 

 King rail, 335 

 Kissing bug," 117 



Labels, 56 

 Labium, 4, 6 

 Labrum, 2, 6 

 Lace-wing, 221, 222 

 Ladybird, 69 

 Lamellirostres, 337 



characteristics, 337 



divisions, 337 



food, 338 



migrations, 339 



