INDEX 



Alders^ 3, 15, 26, 102 

 American goldfinch (or wild 

 canary or thistle bird), 173- 



175 

 American mergansers, 28-30 

 Anosia plexippas (monarch 



butterfly), 145-148 

 Arethusa, 76 

 Arrowhead, 49 

 Arvicola riparias (shore mouse), 



5, 25-27, 238 

 Aster, 12, 22, 25, 74» I33, I55» 



159, 239 



Balm-of-Gilead, 114 



Barn swallow, 32 



Basswood, 56, 113 



Bat, 51 



Beavers, 25, 70, 226, 227 



Beech drops, 190 



Beech nuts, 189 



Beeches, 188, 211, 212 



Bellwort, 59 



Birches, 4, 63, 114, 159 



Birds and struggle for existence, 



172-173 

 Bittern, 50, 124 

 Bittersweet, 214-216 

 Black birch, 4 

 Blackbird, 3, 31, 50, 128, 130- 



132, 182, 223 

 Black cherry, 52 

 Black-heart, 98 

 Black squirrel, 217-219, 242 

 Black warbler, 102 

 Blood-root, 37, 38, 42, 44, 59, 



71/75 

 Blue-bill, 189, 230 



Bluebird, 3, 11, 12, 13, 18, 31, 



57/ 199 

 Blue heron, 50 

 Blue jay, 240 

 Bobolink, 172 

 Bonesct, 170 

 Brown creeper, 31, 36 

 Brown thrasher, 57, 81, 103, laS 

 Bulbed fern, iii 

 Bulrushes, 123-125 

 Bush honeysuckle, 72 



Calopogon, 170 



Canada goose, 39-41 



Canada jay, 241 



Cancer root, 190 



Cardinal lobelia, 74, 153 



Carolina rail, 124 



Catbird (or Canadian mocking- 

 bird), 103, 128, 139-141 



Caterpillars, 52 



Cedar, 21, 102, no, 188, 199 



Chebec, 96 



Chickadee, 63, 113, 196, 204, 

 205, 220, 242 



Chickory, 72 



Chipmunk, 50, 219 



Chipping sparrow (chippie), 82, 

 105-108 



Choke-cherry, 92, 189 



Clams, 78 



Closed gentian, 49 



Cone flower, 74 



Coot, 182-184 



Cornucopia, 155 



Corpse plant, 190 



Cottontail, 5, 220 



Cowbird, 105-108, 130 



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