INDEX 



Abutilon, or velvet-leaf, 195, 207. 



Ailanthus, 192. 



Alder, white, 187, 188. 



Amaranth, 195. 



Arbutus, trailing, or majrflower, 86, 



94, 101, 102, 186, 188, 190, 192. 

 Arethusa, 188. 

 Arkville, 3. 

 Arnold, George, 80. 

 Ash, 98. 



Asters, 185, 192. 

 Azalea, pink, or pinxter-flower, 187, 



188. 

 Azalea, smooth, 188. 

 Azalea, white, 188. 

 Azalea, yellow, 188. 



Ball, an inexpensive, 29, 30. 



Bark-a-boom, 12. 



Baxter's Brook, 26. 



Bay, sweet, 187, 188. 



Bear, black (jjrsus americanus), 

 attacked with a club, 27, 28. 



Bear-weed, 199. 



Beattie, James, quotation from, 87. 



Beaver {Castor fiber), 158. 



Bee. See Bumblebee, Honey-bee, 

 and Sweat-bee. 



Bee, solitary, 122-125. 



Beach, 100. 



Berries, 9. 



Bidens, or two-teeth, or pitchforks, 

 208. 



Big Beaver Kill, 30. 



Big Mountain, 215, 218, 219. 



Bindweed, black, 196. 



Birch, yellow, 25. 



Birds, singing at night, 15, 16; 

 morning awakening of, 16 ; indi- 

 viduality in the songs of, 16, 17 ; 

 in poetry, 79-83, 86-92, 96-99, 103- 

 112, 168-172 ; process of hatching, 

 91, 92 ; leaving the nest, 92 ; ar- 

 rival in spring, 136, 137 ; 151-153 ; 

 love-making among, 137-140 ; war 

 among, 137-140 ; their departure 

 in the fall, 151 ; a good season for, 



163 - 166 ; songs of, in America 



and in England, 176. 

 Birds of prey, their flight when 



laden, 99, 136. 

 Blackbird, cow, or cowbird {Molo- 



thrus ater), UI, 152. 

 Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle 



{Quiscalus quiscula), notes of, 



82. 

 Blackbird, European, in poetry, 81, 



83 ; his resemblance to the Amer- 

 ican robin, 82 ; notes of, 82, 83. 

 Blackbird, red-winged. See Star- 

 ling, red-shouldered. 

 Blackbird, rusty. See Grackle, 



rusty. 

 Bladderwort, homed, 188, 189. 

 Bluebird (Sialia sialis), in poetry, 



79, 86, 96, 100 ; 137, 152 ; notes of, 



96, 97 ; nest of, 155. 

 Blue-weed, or viper's bugloss, 192 ; 



travels of, 197 ; description of, 



197, 202i 

 Boat, a picturesque, 232. 

 Bobolink {Dolichonyx oryzivorus), 



91, 104 ; as a wooer, 138 : notes 



of, 17, 22. 

 Bob-white. See Quail. 

 Bouncing Bet, or saponaria, 198. 

 Boys, 2, 9-13, 18-20, 28, 29. 

 Bryant, William Cullen, 85, 89 ; as 



a poet of nature, 90-97, quotations 



from, 91, 97, 112. 

 Buckwheat, wild, 196. 

 Bugloss, 192. 



Bugloss, viper's. See Blue-weed. 

 Bullfrog, 145, 151. 

 Bumblebee, 53, 59, 60, 70, 71, 122, 



169, 209 ; nest of, 154. 

 Bunting, English, 170. 

 Bunting, indigo. See Indigo-bird. 

 Bunting, snow, or snowflake (Pleo 



trophenax nivalis), 218. 

 Burdock, 195, 202, 210. 

 Burns, Robert, quotation from, 81. 

 Butt End, 219. 

 Buttercup, 105, 202. ' 



