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chalcea), 99; "green dandy" of the 

 dog-bane (Eumolpus auratus), 102, 

 119 ; identification of beetles, 79 ; lady- 

 birds (Coccinella), 119; leaf -rolling, 

 weevils of hazel and alder (Attelabus), 

 104-106 ; rove (Staphylinus), 77 ; use- 

 ful tail of, 78, 119 ; Saperda, music of, 

 142, 143 ; other musical species, 33, 

 138-142; scavenger, 78; snapping 

 (Elater), vi, 119; stag (Lucanus), iv, 

 239 ; Thoreau on, 306 ; water (Gyri- 

 nus), 305 ; remarkable double vision 

 of, 309 ; "going to bed " with a bub- 

 ble, 307. 



"Beggar-lice." See Hound'stongue. 



"Beggar-ticks" (Desmodium), 150-155, 

 170, 284 ; night attitude of leaves, 125 ; 

 flowers and seeds of, 153. 



Benzoin. See Spice-bush. 



Bidens, 150-154. 



Bind-weed (Calystegea septum), gold bee- 

 tle of, 100. 



Birch, white, bark in nest, 220 ; sugary 

 sap of, enticing bees, 2 ; curious seed 

 catkins of, 286-288 ; seed-scales on 

 snow, 285-288 ; birch and ash associ- 

 ated, 217; leaf and Indian arrow-head, 

 217; broom gall of, 259. 



Bird entrapped by a burdock, 197. 



Birds : Of April, 38 ; in winter, food of, 

 280-284; f November, 212. 



Bird's-nests, materials of, 219-225; vireo, 

 220 ; cherry-pits, buckwheat shells in, 

 225; hazel-nuts in, 223; deserted, 

 used as winter resorts, 230. 



Bird -songs, imitative of insect songs, 

 128-131 ; in words, 40. 



Bitterweed. See Ragweed, Small. 



Black and yellow warbler, 213. 



Blackbird : Crackles, 41 ; redwinged, 

 song of, 40. 



Black snake as a nest hunter, 230. 



Black swallow-tail butterfly. See But- 

 terfly. 



Bloodroot {Sanguinaria Canadensis), 21, 



Bluebird, 39 ; song of, 40 ; in autumn, 

 212. 



Blue -bottles (Centaurea cyanus), trans- 

 formation of flowers at night, 126. 



Blue lettuce (Afulgedium), seed of, 173. 



Blue mud-wasp (Pelopaus), 156. 



Blue swallow-tail. See Butterfly. 



Bobolinks, migration of, 212. 



Bombardier-beetle (Brachinus), 73. 



Botany : Teachers of, among butter- 

 flies, 8086 ; lesson from a squirrel, 

 17 ; practical, 93, 151 ; in a cobweb, 

 171. 



Bower-building caterpillar, 168. 



Brewer, the ornithologist, on the " drum" 

 of the grouse, 42. 



Bryant, W. C., quoted. Hepatica, 22; 

 "painted-cup," 61, 62; drum of the 

 " partridge," 42 ; fringed gentian, 227; 

 yellow violet, 20, 21; trailing arbutus, 

 22 ; birch leaves, 218. 



Buckwheat shells in bird's-nest, 225. 



Buds, opening, 48 ; various tints of, in 

 landscape ; leaf arrangement in ; lin- 

 den and tulip-tree, 49 ; hickory, horse- 

 chestnut, 50 ; winter, of dogwood, 49, 

 50. 



Bumblebee, a mock, 179. 



Bunting, white, 213 ; nest materials of, 

 224. 



Burdock (Lappa major), dew on leaf, 122; 

 seed of, 155; a trap for birds, 197. 



Burr-grass (CencArus), 155, 274. 



Burroughs, John, quoted. " April," 38 ; 

 Robin, 39 ; drum of the grouse, 42 ; 

 fringed gentian, 227; peeping frogs, 6 ; 

 early spring flowers, 22, 23 ; ragweed, 

 280; weeds, 150; whistling salaman- 

 der, 194. 



Burrs, 120, 150-155, 197. 



Bush clover (Lespedeza), night attitude 

 of leaves, 125. 



Buttercup, seed of, 284. 



