INDEX 



Tobacco, 223. 



Tortoise, 129. 



Towhee. See Chewink. 



Tree-crickets, 148, 149. 



Tree-toad, 81, 159-165. 



Trout, brook, their fondness for 



springs, 42, 43, 47, 49, 104; caught 



with tickling, 183. 

 Trout-fishing, 26, 33. 

 Trowbridge, John T., his natural 



history, 95, 96 ; quotations from.. 



96. 

 Turkey, wild (Meleaqris ffallo- 



pavo sllvestris), 246, 249, 250. 

 Turtle, 129. 

 Turtle-head, 100. 

 Twin-flower. See Linnaea. 

 Two-teeth. See Bidens. 



Velvet-leaf. See Abutilon. 



Venus's looking-glass, 229. 



Vervain, 229. 



Vetch, or tare, 226. 



Violet, in poetry, 92. 



Violet, Canada, 101, 206; its fra- 

 grance, 208-210. 



Violet, common blue, 92, 203, 210. 



Violet, English, 92, 203. 



Violet, white, 92, 101, 206, 210. 



Violet, yellow, 100-102. 



Vireo, in poetry, 121. 



Virgil, on honey-bees, 65, 81, 82; 

 quotations from, 106, 107, 220. 



Walking, in England, 194-197 ; a 

 simple and natural pastime, 201, 

 202. 



Warbler, yellow-rumped, or myr- 

 tle (Dendroica coronata), 247. 



Wasp, sand. See Hornet, sand. 



Water-lily. See Pond-lily. 



Waxwing, cedar. See Cedar-bird. 



Weasel, 184. 



Weebutook River, 49. 



Weeds, 210 ; their devotion to 

 man, 212 ; the gardener and the 

 farmer the best friends of, 213 ; 

 Nature's makeshift, 213-216; 



great travelers, 215-219; their 

 abundance in America, 218, 220; 

 native and foreign, 220-228; the 

 growth of, 227; escaped from 

 cultivation, 227; beautiful, 228- 

 230; uses of various, 230, 231; 

 less persistent and universal 

 than grass, 231 ; virtues of, 231. 



Well of St. Winifred, 47. 



Wheat, winter, 102, 103. 



Whip-poor-will (Antrostomits vo- 

 ciferus), song of, 18. 



Whiteweed. See Fleabane. 



Whitman, Walt, a close student 

 of American nature, 117-120; 

 quotations from, 118, 119. 



Whittier, John Greenleaf, as a 

 poet of nature, 108-111; quota- 

 tions from, 108-111, 220. 



Winchester, Va., 46. 



Wintergreen, false, or pyrola, 

 207. 



Wintergreen, spotted, 207. 



Witch-hazel, 101. 



Woodchuck, 173-178. / 



Wood-frog, 158. 



Woodpecker, in poetry , 116. 



Woodpecker, downy (Dryobates 

 pubescens medianus), 240. 



Woodpecker, golden-winged See 

 High-hole. 



Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or 

 yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphy- 

 rapicus varlus), drumming of, 

 116. 



Wood-pigeons, 95. 



Wood-sorrel, common, 226. 



Wood-sorrel, yellow, 226. 



Wordsworth, William, quotations 

 from, 124, 204. 



Wren, Carolina (Thryothorus lu- 

 dovicianus), notes of, 254. 



Wren, house ( Troglodytes a'edori), 

 notes of, 19; nest of, 170. 



Yarrow, 222. 

 Yellow-jacket, 129. 

 Yew, American, 87. 



