INDEX 



237 



Fleabane, or whiteweed, 192, 199, 

 203, 



Flicker. See High-hole. 



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

 92-94, 101, 102, 172, 18G ; fragrant, 

 185-193. 



Footpaths, lack of, in America, ITS- 

 ITS, 180 ; English, 1T8, 180, 181 ; 

 a schoolboy's footpath, 1T8, 1T9. 



Forenoon, as distinguished from 

 morning, 32. 



Fort Washington, 224. 



Fox, red ( Vulpes vulpes var. fvlvus), 

 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. 



Frog, 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 tris- 



tis), 109 ; pairing habits of, 138 ; 



notes of, 109, 138. 

 Goose-foot, 194. 

 Grackle, purple. See Blackbird, 



crow. 

 Grackle, rusty, or rusty blackbird 



{Scolecophagus carolinus), notes 



of, 82. 

 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 {Bonasa 



umbelhcs), in poetry, 96 ; 131 ; 



drumming of, 89. 

 " Gums," 230. 

 Gum-tree, 230. 



Haggard, 171. 



Hancock, 29, 30, 33. 



Hare, northern {Lepns americanus 



var. virginianus), 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 herodias), 

 20 ; notes of, 20, 24. 



High-hole, or golden-winged wood- 

 pecker, or flicker ( Colaptes 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. 



Hummingbird. ruby-throated {Tro- 

 chilus colubris), in poetry, 80 ; 

 nest of, 210. 



Hunt, Helen, quotation from, 201. 



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 {Pas- 

 serina cyatifa), 110 ; notes of, 22. 

 Innocence. See Houstonia. 

 Insects, nocturnal, 135, 136. 

 Iron-weed, 208. 



