INDEX 



238; in the woods, 235, 236, 239- 

 241. 



Snowbird, slate-colored, or slate- 

 colored junco(/wnco hyemalw), 

 in poetry, 104; notes of, 168. 



Snowflake. See Bunting, snow. 



Sodom, 23. 



Sorrel, sheep, 214, 222, 226. 



Sparrow, bush or field (Spizella 

 pttsilla), 179. 



Sparrow, English (Passer domes- 

 ticus), manner of courtship, 150. 



Sparrow, social or chipping, or 

 " chippie " (Spizella socialis), 

 150, 179. 



Sparrow, song (Afelospiza cinerea 

 melodia), 167; notes of, 17-20, 

 25. 



Sparrow, vesper (Pocecetes grami- 

 netis), rejecting the attentions 

 of a skylark, 146, 147. 



Specularia, clasping, 208, 229. 



Spider, killing a bee, 81; a musi- 

 cal, 129. 



Spring, sudden coming of, 166- 

 168. 



Spring beauty. See Clay ton ia. 



Springs, paths leading to, 39, 40; 

 their universal attractiveness, 

 40, 41 ; centres of greenness, 41 ; 

 symbolism of, 42; locations of, 



42, 43; fondness of trout for, 



43, 44 ; physiology of, 44, 45 ; 

 their mineral elements, 45 ; 

 large, 45-48 ; as refrigerators, 

 49, 50; countries poor in, 50; on 

 mountains, 50; places of wor- 

 ship, 51, 52; various kinds of, 

 52,53; marvelous, 53 ; intermit- 

 tent, 54; in the Idyls of Theoc- 

 ritus, 55, 56. 



Squaw-berry. See Mitchella vine. 

 Squirrel, flying, 170. 

 Squirrel, gray, 143, 144. 

 Squirrel, Mexican black, 171, 172. 

 Squirrel, red, 144, 168, 170, 172, 237. 

 Squirrel corn. See Dicentra. 

 Squirrels, as parachutes, 170-172. 

 Star, shooting. 91. 

 Starling, red-shouldered, or red- 

 winged blackbird, notes of, 88. 



Stedman, Edmund Clarence, his 



Seeking the Mayflower, 102. 

 Stevenson, Robert Louis, hia 



Travels with a Donkey, 17. 

 Stick-seed, 222. 

 Stones, life under, 134. 

 Stramonium, 214, 222. 

 Strawberries, wild, 11, 26, 28. 

 Succory. See Chicory. 

 Sumac, 212. 

 Swallow, bank (Riparia riparia), 



116. 

 Swallow, barn (fflrundo erythro- 



gastra), 116 ; nest of, 106. 

 Swallow, chimney, or chimney 



swift ( Chtetura pelagica), nest 



of, 31. 

 Swallow.cliff ( Petrochelidon luni- 



frons\ in poetry, 96, 116; nest 



of, 20, 106. 



Swallow, European, 189. 

 Swallows, in poetry, 106, 116, 189. 

 Sweat-bee, 136. 



Tails, uses of, 172, 173. 



Tansy, 212. 



Tare. See Vetch. 



Teasle, 219. 



Tennyson, Alfred, quotations 



from, 89, 90, 95, 106, 116, 117; a 



good observer, 116, 117. 

 Theocritus, quotation from, 55. 

 Thistle, Canada, 213, 219, 222, 225, 



231. 



Thistle, common, 222, 225. 

 Thistle, pasture, 207, 210. 

 Thistle, swamp, 225. 

 Thomson, James, quotation from, 



94. 

 Thrasher, brown ( Toxostoma 



ritfum), song of, 121. 

 Thrush, hermit (Hylodchla gut- 



tata pallasii), in poetry, 114, 



247; notes of, 20. 

 Thrush, wood (Hylodchla muste- 



lina), notes of, 19. 

 Titlark, or American pipit (An- 



thus pensilranicits), 93. 

 Toad, 158, 161, 162 n., 191. See 



Tree-toad. 

 Toad-flax, 211, 214, 222, 230, 231. 



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