INDEX 



161 



tin, 38; the wood duck, 39; tit- 

 mice, 36 ; woodpeckers, 37 ; wrens, 

 36 ; provide, 33. 



Nesting material, 62. 



Nesting places, lack of, 6. 



Netting, wire; cut on the bias, 66; 

 fence of, 65. 



Nistkasten fiir Vogel. Liebe, 40. 



Noted ornithologists ; islands, groves, 

 parks, and woods commemorative 

 of, 95. 



Nuthatches, nesting boxes for, 37. 



Officers of the L. A. S., 134. 



Orchard Oriole (verse) , 106. 



Oriole, Baltimore (verses), 119; or- 

 chard (verse), 106. 



Ornithologists, noted ; islands, groves, 

 parks, and woods commemorative 

 of, 95. 



Our homes, attracting birds to them, 

 19. 



Owl (verses), 117. 



Owls, 68 ; nesting boxes for, 38. 



Parks, public, feeding birds in, 61. 



Parson and Buck. The Wild Flow- 

 ers of California, 22. 



Places, nesting, lack of, 6 ; carrion, 

 59; field, 58; waste, 30. 



Planting, time for, 20; tree, for 

 birds, general suggestions on, 28. 



Planting of evergreens, 20. 



Plant, what to, 19. 



Plants, watering of, 20. 



Poison, use of, in farming and gar- 

 dening, 9. 



Principles, purpose and, of the L. 

 A. S., 132. 



Protecting birds against cats, 64-67. 



Protecting song birds, etc., 19. 



Protecting the birds from their nat- 

 ural enemies, 64. 



Protection, game, from the nature 

 lover's point of view, 126. 



Provide nesting boxes, 33. 

 Public parks, feeding birds in, 61. 

 Purple martin, nesting boxes for, 38. 

 Purpose and principles of the L. 

 A. S., 132. 



Quail (verse), 116. 



Question, the English sparrow, 72-79. 



Recommendations regarding birds, 

 Hornaday's report, 123. 



Recommendations regarding mam- 

 mals, Hornaday's report, 139. 



Redbird, tanager and (verse), 116. 



Red Cedar, burning-bush and (fig- 

 ure), 31. 



Red-headed woodpecker at St. Paul, 

 4. 



Remarks, concluding, on nesting 

 boxes, 40. 



Right, is it, to hunt and fish, 126. 



Robin (verses), 108. 



Rope coil, tarred, 66. 



Rose-breasted grosbeak (verse) , 104. 



Rural schools and nature, 30. 



Sam, Uncle, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 



107, 121 ; the birds before, 99. 

 Schools, bird day in the, 98 ; rural, 



and nature, 30. 



Schutz den Vogeln. Kobelt, 40. 

 Shelves, bracket; for swallows, 38. 

 Shrubs, trees, and vines ; furnishing 



them to birds, 19. 

 Skunks, 68. 



Snowy heron (verses) , 103. 

 Societies, 145 ; humane, in the United 



States and Canada, directory of, 



147. 

 Song birds, as food, 90; causes for 



the decrease of, 6. 

 Source of stock, 20. 

 Southern United States, Flora of 



the. Chapman, 22. 



