INDEX 



M5 



Leopard frog, 46 



Lilac, 90, 91, 93 



Lobelia, 74, 153, 155 



Loon (or great northern diver), 



112, 116-119, 176 

 Loose-strife, 72 

 Lordly crow, 5 



Maiden-hair fern, iii 



Mandrake, 189 



Maple, 4, 21, 52/ 70, no, I59> 



188, 198, 212, 213 

 Marsh marigold, 49 

 Marsh wren, 124 

 Maryland yellow-throat, 102 

 Meadow lark, 31, 57 

 Medicinal herbs, 161 

 Migratory birds, 19, 179- 181 

 Milkweed, 147 

 Mink, 50 

 Monarch butterfly {Anosia plex- 



ippus), 145-148 

 Moon, 185-187 

 Mosquito, 67 

 Moth, life of a, 90-93 

 Mourning dove, 87-89 

 Mud hens (coot and Florida 



gallinule), 182 

 Mullen, 12 

 Muskrat, 5, 49, 70, 87, 114, 194, 



195, 226-229, 238 

 Myrtle warblers, i8o 



Niagara, 34, 109-111 

 Night-hawk, 65-69, 92, 100, 116, 



127, 177 

 Northern Calypso, 75, 170 

 Nuthatch, 22, 31, 35, 127, 191, 



205 



Oak, 12, 22, 53, 56, 70, no, 198 

 Olive-sided fly-catcher, 96 

 Ontario, 162, 163 

 Orchids, 169- 171 

 Oriole, 50 

 Osage orange, 78 

 Oven-bird, 53, 81, 193 



Owl, II, 19, 51, 112,^116, 176, 



220-222, 223-225 

 Ox-eye daisy, 74 



Painted cup, 153 



Painted trillium, in 



Partridge, 128 



Partridge-berry, 152, 239 



Pea gall, 192 



Peat fuel, 8 



Pellaea, in 



Phoebe, 96, 127 



Pike, 137 



Pines, no, 114, 188 



Pink lady's slipper, 8, 76 



Pipsissewa, 22, 239 



Pitcher plant, 8-10, 153 



Plover, 19, 182, 209 



Polly-wogs, 47 



Porcupine, 114 



Potato beetle, 128 



Powder post beetle, i20-ia3 



Prairie chicken, 128 



Promethea moth, 90-93 



Purple finch, 18 



Purple grosbeak, 19, 241 



Purple martin (or black swallow)^ 



135 

 Pyrola, 8 



Quail, 128 



Rails, 50, 100, 124, 125 



Red fox, 50 



Red-heads, 230 



Redpolls, 208 



Red-shouldered hawk, 206 



Red-start, 50, 53 



Redwing, 124, 125 



Red-winged blackbirds, 3 



Ring-necks, 143 



Robin, 3, II, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 



31, 34, 56, 62-64, 80, 94, 127, 



128, 181, 223, 240 

 Rock rose, 72 

 Ruby-throated humming-bird, 



128 



