INDEX 



Adirondacks, the, 41 ; camping in, 



Alder, 20, 130. 



Alder Creek, 177. 



Anemone, 146. 



Anemone, grove, 147. 



Anemone, Pennsylvania, 147. 



Apple, 128. 



Apricot, 128. 



Arbutus, 146, 147, 155. 



Ash, swamp, 20. 



Audubon, John James, 22, 65, 67, 



107, 110, 124, 142, 150, 203, 207, 



211 ; his ornithological work, 214- 



216. 

 Autumn, approach and arrival of, 



34,35. 

 Azalea, 155. 

 Azalea, pink, 12. 



Baird, Prof. Spencer F., 216, 222. 



Balsam Lake, 161. 



Barnard, Vincent, 117. 



Bats, 79. 



Bear, black ( Ursus americanus), 91, 



Beaver (Castor fiber), 39. 



Beaver Kill, 159-161. 



Beaverkill Mountains, 97. 



Beech, 73, 157. 



Beech, water, 20. 



Big Ingin River, 159. 



Birch, black, 157, 172. 



Birch, yellow, 68, 73, 76, 157. 



Birds, coming and going of the, 2 ; 

 spring songs of songless, 7, 8 ; in- 

 fluence of civilization upon their 

 habits, 10, 11, 223, 224; distribu- 

 tion of, 18-21 ; gradual cessation 

 of song in summer, 30 ; geograph- 

 ical distribution dependent on the 

 climate, 38; voices of, 40; hu- 

 man significance of their songs, 

 41 ; development of the wings in 

 young, 62 ; sanitary system among, 

 98, 99 ; second marriages among, 

 100-102, 198; women's rights 



among, 102, 103; plumage in its 

 relation to concealment, 102, 

 103 ; order of migration of, 

 103 ; irregularity in nesting habits 

 of, 106-109; nests for second 

 broods, 108; location of nests 

 with a view to safety, 108, 109 ; 

 the greatest enemies of, 109 ; 

 their confidence in man, 109, 

 110, 138, 222-224 ; in the city of 

 Washington, 109-111 ; conceal- 

 ment of nests in the woods, 111 ; 

 a classification as to certain nest- 

 ing habits, 124, 125; migrating 

 at night, 143, 144 ; feeding ranges 

 of various, 150; blue, 191; art 

 in protecting their nests, 193 ; di- 

 vision of the useful and the or- 

 namental qualities between the 

 sexes, 193, 194 ; excess of males 

 among, 198 ; delights of the 

 study of, 201-204 ; books on, 204, 

 205, 214-216; representatives of 

 the principal families of, 205-214 ; 

 Western duplicates of Eastern, 

 217; walking and hopping, 218; 

 the food question, 220-223 ; pro- 

 tected from the cold by fat, 221, 

 222 ; fear of man an acquired 

 trait, 222, 223 ; on an uninhabited 

 island, 223 ; of the seashore, 224, 

 225. 



Birds of prey, 109. 



Blackberry, 20. 



Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle 

 (Quiscalus quiscula), 137 ; chas- 

 ing a purple finch, 138 ; habits of, 

 138, 139 ; notes of, 137 ; nest of, 

 107, 139. 



Blackbirds, 218. 



Bloodroot, 146, 147. 



Bloody-Moose Pond, 73. 



Bluebird (Sialia sialis), arrival in 

 spring, 1-3, 189, 190 ; 56, 103 n.; 

 compared with the English robin, 



190, 191 ; its Western congeners, 



191, 192 ; nest-building, 194, 195i 



