INDEX 



ABCTILON, or velvet-leaf, 215, 228. 



Ailanthus, 212. 



Alder, white, 205, 207. 



Amaranth, 215. 



Arbutus, trailing, or mayflower, 



92, 101, 111, 112, 204, 206, 209, 



211. 



Arethusa, 206. 

 Arkville, 5. 

 Arnold, George, 86. 

 Ash, 107. 

 Asters, 204, 212. 

 Azalea, pink, or pinxter-flower, 



205, 207. 



Azalea, smooth, 207. 

 Azalea, white, 207. 

 Azalea, yellow, 207. 



Ball, an inexpensive, 33, 34. 



Bark-a-boom, 15. 



Baxter's Brook, 30. 



Bay, sweet, 205, 207. 



Bear, black, attacked with a club, 

 31, 32. 



Bear-weed, 219. 



Beattie, James, quotation from, 

 94. 



Beaver, 173. 



Bee. See Bumblebee, Honey-bee, 

 and Sweat-bee. 



Bee, solitary, 134-138. 



Beech, 109. 



Berries, 11. 



Bidens, or two-teeth, or pitch- 

 forks, 228. 



Big Beaver Kill, 34. 



Big Mountain, 235, 238, 239. 



Bindweed, black, 215. 



Birch, yellow, 29. 



Birds, singing at night, 18, 19; 

 morning awakening of, 19; in- 



dividuality in the songs of, 19, 

 20; in poetry, 85-90, 92-99, 104- 

 108, 113, 123, 184-189; process of 

 hatching, 99, 100; leaving the 

 nest, 99; arrival in spring, 149, 

 150, 165-167; love-making among, 

 150-154; war among, 150-154; 

 their departure in the fall, 166; 

 a good season for, 178-182; songs 

 of, in America and in England, 

 194, 195. 



Birds of prey, their flight when 

 laden, 108, 150. 



Blackbird, cow, or cowbird (Molo- 

 thrus ater), 62. 



Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle 

 (Quiscalus quiscula), notes of, 



Blackbird, European, in poetry, 

 87, 89; his resemblance to the 

 American robin, 88; notes of, 



Blackbird, red-winged. See Star- 

 ling, red-shouldered. 

 Blackbird, rusty. See Grackle, 



rusty. 



Bladderwort, horned, 207, 208. 

 Bluebird (Sialia sialis), in 



poetry, 85, 93, 105, 109, 150, 166; 



notes of, 105, 106 ; nest of, 170. 

 Blue-weed, or viper's bugloss, 211 ; 



travels of, 217 ; description of, 



217, 222. 



Boat, a picturesque, 253. 

 Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivo- 



rus), 99, 114; as a wooer, 151; 



notes of, 20, 25. 

 Bob-white. See Quail. 

 Bouncing Bet, or saponaria, 217. 

 Boys, 4, 11-16, 21-24, 32, 33. 

 Bryant, William Cullen, 92,97; u 



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