INDEX 



237 



Fleabane, or whiteweed, 192, 199, 

 203. 



Flicker. See High-hole. 



Flowers, wild, in poetry, 84-86, 90, 

 92-94, 101. 102, 172, 186 ; fragrant, 

 185-193. 



Footpaths, lack of, in America, 175- 

 178, 180 ; English, 178, 180, 181 ; 

 a schoolboy's footpath, 178, 179. 



Forenoon, as distinguished from 

 morning, 32. 



Fort Washington, 224. 



Fox, red ( Vulpes vulpes v&r.fulvus), 

 100; and hound, 140-144; 158; 

 hunting a, 214-222 ; favorite sleep- 

 ing places of, 218 ; hard fare in 

 winter, 222, 223 ; an encounter be- 

 tween rivals, 223 ; 230. 



Fringed-orchis, purple, 188, 191. 



Frog. See Bullfrog. 



Frog, clucking. See Wood-frog. 



Frogi peeping. See Hyla, Picker- 

 ing's. 



Garlic, 210. 



Gentian, closed, 59, 60, 92. 



Gentian, fringed, 59 ; Bryant's poem 



on, 92, 93 ; 185. 

 Gill, 202. 

 Girls, 30. 

 Goethe, 79. 



Goldenrod, 92 ; 185, 192, 199, 201. 

 Goldfinch, American (Spinus Iris- 



tis), 109 ; pairing habits of, 138 ; 



notes of, 109, 138. 

 Goose-foot, 194. 

 Grackle, purple. See Blackbird, 



Grackle, rusty, or rusty blackbird 

 (Scolecophagus carolinus), notes 



Grass, the natural covering of the 



fields, 210. 

 Grass, harvest, 194. 

 Grass, quack, 194. 

 Grass, quitch, 202. 

 Green Cove Spring, 41. 

 Greyhound, 167. 

 Ground-nut, 188. 

 Grouse, ruffed, or partridge (Sonata 



umbellus), in poetry, 96; 131; 



drumming of, 89. 

 " Gums," 230. 

 Gum-tree, 230. 



Haggard, 171. 



Hancock, 29, 30, 33. 



Hare, northern (Leptu americanui 



var. viryinianus), 216. 

 Hares, 87, 88. 



Harrisonburg, Va., 42. 



Harvard, 26. 



Harvest-fly. See Cicada. 



Hawk, in poetry, 106. See Hen- 

 hawk. 



Hawkfish. See Osprey, American. 



Hawk's Point, 32. 



Hedgehog, 171. 



Hedge-sparrow, 171. 



Hemlock, poison, 202 



Henbane, 202. 



Hen-hawk, 108. 



Hepatica, or liver-leaf, 85 ; the first 

 spring flower, 94 ; 188 ; an inter- 

 mittently fragrant flower, 189. 



Hercules, 50. 



Heron, 4, 5, 8. 



Heron, great blue (Ardea herodiat), 

 20 ; notes of, 20, 24. 



High-hole, or golden-winged wood- 

 pecker, or flicker (Colaptet aura- 

 tus), 57, 109 ; notes of, 109 ; nest 

 of, 155. 



Highlands of the Hudson, the, 66. 



Holywell, 42. 



Honey, flowers which yield, 192, 

 193. 



Honey-bee, a product of civilization, 

 53, 54; wandering habits of, 54, 

 55; hunting wild bees, 55-75; 

 method of handling, 65, 66; as 

 robbers, 70 ; enemies of, 75, 76 ; 

 Virgil on, 75-77; 122, 172, 173, 

 192*193,210. 



Honeysuckle, 188, 193. 



Hooker, Sir Joseph, 199 



Hop-clover, 202. 



Hornet, black, 117, 118. 



Hornet, sand, 117-121. 



Hound, fox and, 140-144, 167, 214, 

 219-223. 



Hound's-tongue, 202. 



Housatonic River, 44. 



Houstonia, or innocence, 85, 186. 



Humble-bee. See Bumblebee. 



Humming bird, ruby-throated (Tro- 

 chttus colubris), in poetry, 80 ; 

 nest of, 210. 



Hunt, Helen, quotation from, 201. 

 i Hyacinth, wild, 187. 



Hyla, Pickering's, or peeping frog, 

 116, 144, 145; arboreal life of, 

 150, 151. 



Hylas, the story of, 50. 



Indigo-bird, or indigo bunting (Pat- 

 serina cyanra), 110 ; notes of, 22. 

 Innocence. See Houstonia. 

 Insects, nocturnal, 135, 136. 

 Iron-weed, 208. 



