INDEX 



299 



Osprey (cont.) : 



on the defensive, 157. 



story of, 158. 

 Oven-bird, 33. 



interesting- experience, 35. 



tactics, 33, 34. 



Pasture, birds in, 191. 

 Purple finch : 



a flock, 201. 



eccentric song, 251. 



females sing, 201. 



variety in dress, 202. 



Redstart : 



manners, 95. 



mystery, 100, 105. 

 Robin, 83, 280. 

 Rose-garden, 255. 

 Rough trip, a, 61-65. 



Saltwater bath-tub, 256. 

 Sandpiper, spotted, 146. 



baby, 151. 



bathing, 150. 



family, 149. 



flight, 148. 



notes of, 147. 



outwitting a hawk, 152. 



repose of manner, 150, 

 151. 



winsome ways, 148, 149. 

 Sea, the, 146. 



being too near, 257. 

 Shock, a, 163. 

 Singers in the woods, 269, 



270, 271. 

 Smudge, a, 276. 

 Snuggery, the, 241. 

 Sparrow, chipping, 5. 

 Sparrow, English, 4. 

 Sparrow, song, 83, 251. 

 Sparrow, white-throated : 



song, 42, 44. 



Sparrow, white - throated 

 (cont.) : 



strange sounds, 41. 



variations, 45. 



young learning, 46. 

 Spruce-trees, 56, 84. 

 Stories of sportsmen, 271. 

 Summer club house, 62. 

 Swallow, barn, 131. 



as singer, 138. 



a " tea," 131. 



babies, 141. 



bathing, 133. 



courtship manners, 134. 



disapproval of the wooer, 

 134. 



discouraged, 137. 



driving a kingfisher, 132. 



family feeling, 139. 



jokes, 132. 



mobbing the cat, 132. 



new tactics, 136. 



talkative, 138. 



wing exercise, 139. 



Thrush, hermit : 



in captivity, 32. 



song of, 31. 

 Thrush, olive-backed, 52. 



his California brother, 77. 



manners, 59. 



nest, 60, 73-77. 



nest tragedies, 76, 77. 



peculiar notes, 53-57, 74. 



song, 53, 57, 59. 



strange performance, 58. 

 Thrush, tawny, or veery, 52. 

 Thrush, wood, song, 282. 



Usnea, 97. 



Warbler, black - throated 



green : 

 a family group, 90. 



