INDEX 



Dock, yellow, 222. 



Doctor, the (a snake), 251. 



Dog, Cuff and the woodchucks, 



176, 177. See Greyhound and 



Hound. 



Dog, farm, hound and, 157, 183. 

 Dogbane, 207. 

 Dove, mourning (Zenaldura ma- 



croura), 95. 

 Doves, 95. 

 Downsville, 21. 

 Dry Brook, 5. 

 Ducks, feeding, 247-249, 251, 252, 



254, 255. 

 Duck-shooting on the Potomac, 



244-255. 



Eagle, chased by a kingbird, 10, 

 36; flight of an, 62, 63, 127. 



East Branch, 33, 34. 



Elecampane, 219, 222. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quota- 

 tions from, 48, 87, 88, 97, 105; his 

 knowledge of nature, 97, 98. 



England, bird-songs in, 194; pe- 

 destrianism in, 195-197; the foot- 

 paths of, 196, 199, 200 ; the high- 

 ways of, 200. 



Esopus, 145. 



Eupatorium, purple, 229. 



Falcon, haggard, 187. 



Finch, purple (Carpodacus pur- 

 pureus), 239 ; notes of, 25. 



Fisherman, an ancient, 10. 



Fishes, spring movements of, 149, 

 156. 



Fleabane, or whiteweed, 212, 219, 

 223. 



Flicker. See High-hole. 



Flowers, wild, in poetry, 90-92, 97, 

 99-102, 110, 111, 189, 204 ; fra- 

 grant, 203-212. 



Footpaths, lack of, in America, 

 193, 198; English, 196. 199, 200; a 

 schoolboy's footpath, 179, 180. 



Forenoon, as distinguished from 

 morning, 36. 



Fort Washington, 244. 



Fox, red, and hound, 109, 154-158; 

 173; hunting a, 234-244 ; favor- 



ite sleeping places of, 238 , hard 

 fare in winter, 243; an encoun- 

 ter between rivals, 244 ; 251. 



Fringed -orchis, purple, 206, 210. 



Frog. See Bullfrog. 



Frog, clucking. See Wood-frog. 



Frog, peeping. See Hyla, Picker- 

 ing's. 



Garlic, 230. 



Gentian, closed, 63, 64, 100. 



Gentian, fringed, 63; Bryant's 



poem on, 100, 101, 204. 

 Gill, 222. 

 Girls, 34. 

 Goethe, 85. 



Goldenrod, 100, 204, 211, 219, 220. 

 Goldfinch, American (AstragaH- 



nus tristis), 120 ; pairing habits 



of, 152; notes of, 120, 152. 

 Goose-foot, 214. 

 Grackle, purple. See Blackbird, 



crow. 

 Grackle, rusty, or rusty blackbird 



(Euphagus carolinus), notes 



of, 88. 

 Grass, the natural covering of the 



fields, 231. 

 Grass, harvest, 214. 

 Grass, quack, 214. 

 Grass, quitch, 222. 

 Green Cove Spring, 46. 

 Greyhound, 183. 

 Ground-nut, 207. 

 Grouse, ruffed, or partridge (Bo- 



nasa umbettu\ in poetry, 104; 



144 ; drumming of, 96. 

 "Gums," 251. 

 Gum-tree, 251. 



Haggard, 187. 

 Hancock, 33, 34, 37. 

 Hare, northern, 236. 

 Hares, 94, 95. 

 Harrisonburg, Va., 46. 

 Harvard, 30. 



Harvest-fly. See Cicada. 

 Hawk, in poetry, 116. See Hen- 

 hawk. 



Hawkflsh. See Osprey, American. 

 Hawk's Point, 36. 



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