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INDEX 



WARBLERS : Autumnal-streaked, black 

 and yellow, Cape May, yellow red- 

 poll, yellow-rumped, 213 ; Kentucky, 

 prairie, yellow, worm-eating, nest ma- 

 terials of, 224. 



Wasps : Mud - dauber (Pelopccus), 74 ; 

 nest and spider prisoners of, 156161 ; 

 paralytic effect of sting on prey, 47, 

 160, 161 ; paper (refers here to Polis- 

 tes), 74 ; vase-maker (Eumenes f rater- 

 no), 46; how to handle wasps without 

 harm, 183 ; ichneumon wasps, 71, 72. 



Water-beetle (Gyrimis). See Beetle. 



Web caterpillars, 258. 



Weeds : In winter, 280 ; winter seeds 

 of, food for birds, 280-284 ; world- 

 wide travels of, 150. 



Weevil, leaf-rolling of hazel. See Beetle. 



White birch. See Birch. 



White bunting, 213. 



White-footed, or deer-mouse (Hesperomys 

 leucopus), 248. 



Whitlow-grass (Draba vcrnd), 21. 



Wild bean (Apios tuberosa), leaves at 

 night, 126; Atnphicarpea, or hog-pea- 

 nut ; underground flowers and pods 

 of, 165-167. 



Wild carrot, 284. 



Wild flowers, earliest, 1-3, 19-24 ; latest, 

 202-210, 226; "punctual" flowers, 22. 



Wild geranium. See Cranesbill. 



Wild-ginger (Asarum Canadense), 21, 22. 



Wild lettuce (Lactuca elongata), seed of, 



173- 



Wild rose, 202; at night, 126. 

 Willow, catkins of, 48 ; seed cotton of, 



170, 208 ; cone-gall of, 207. 

 Willow-herb- or fire-weed (Epilobiuni), 



241. 



Wilson on the drum of the partridge, 



42. 



Wind-flower (Anemone nemorosa), 21. 

 Winged seeds, 170-174, 274, 283. 

 Winter calendar, 247-309. 

 Winter: Insects of, 234; butterflies of, 



34, 184, 270, 289, 292, 305 ; twigs of, 



257 ; leaf-rosettes of, 240-243. 

 Winter food of the birds, 280-284. 

 Winter-green, false. See Polygala. 

 Winter supplies for aquarium, 299. 

 Witch-brooms, 259. 

 Witch-hazel, blossoms of, 202, 210-226; 



shooting seeds of, 203, 227. 

 Woodbine. See Virginia-creeper. 

 Wood-boring ichneumon and its victim, 



234-239. 



Wood-frog, 52, 194. 

 Woodpecker, golden-winged, or flicker, 



40. 

 Wood-sorrel (Oxalis), night attitude of 



leaves, 127. 

 " Woolly-bear," 234. 

 Worm-eating warbler, nest ingredients 



of, 224. 

 Wormwood, Roman. See Ragweed, 



Small. 



Wren, nest materials of, 224 ; golden- 

 crested, nest of, 224. 



YELLOW-BILLED cuckoo, nest of, 224. 

 Yellow butterfly (Philodice), 84. 

 Yellow-edge. See Butterfly (Antiopa). 

 Yellow-redpoll warbler, 213. 

 Yellow-rumped warbler, 213. 

 Yellow violet, 20, 22. 

 Yellow-warbler, nest materials of, 224. 

 Yellow-winged sparrow. See Sparrow, 



