Mocking-thrush. See Thrush. 



Morning-glory, gold beetles on, lor. 



Mosses, club. See Club Mosses. 



Moth, feather -winged, 119; Bull's-eye 

 (Saturm'a /<?), xvi ; evening primrose, 

 135; rosy, 98; sack - bearer (Psyche], 

 298 (see Apple-tree Moth, Cecropia, 

 Polyphemus, Prometheus, Dryocampa, 

 96 ; also Chrysalis and Cocoon). 



Mountain - laurel (Kaltnia latifolid), 

 jumping stamens and pollen of, 114. 



Mourning cloak. See Butterfly {Anti- 

 opa\ 



Mouse, field; nest of, 74; tracks of, in 

 snow, 248 winter nursery of, in a 

 bird's-nest, 232 , white-footed or deer- 

 mouse (Leucopus), 247. 



Mullein (Verbascum thapsrts') flowers 

 at night, 126; Moth mullein (V. blat- 

 tarid), winter rosettes of, 241. 



Mushroom, fairy-ring, 177; various, 187- 

 191. 



Music of insects, 30, 33, 34, 128-131, 

 138. 



Musk flower, pollen of, 115. 



Muybridge, instantaneous photographs 

 by, 251. 



NASTURTIUM (Tropczoluni), night atti- 

 tude of, and dewy sheen, 122. 



Nests and nest - building. See Birds'- 

 nests. 



Nettle family distinguished by butterfly, 

 84. 



Nettle-tree (Celtis), sugar-berry gall on, 



259- 

 Newspaper fragments in bird's-nest, 221, 



222. 



New Zealand caterpillar fungus, 191. 

 Night, plants by, 121-127. 

 Night-flowering catchfly, 126. 

 Nightshade, enchanter's (Circaa lute- 



tiand], pollen of, 114; clinging seeds 



of, 154. 



November birds, 212. 

 November wild flowers, 210, 226. 



OAK: Buds of, 48*, clinging leaves, 45; 

 fungus growing upon, 189 ; acorn 

 sprouting, 29; caterpillar of (Dryo- 

 campa), 97. 



Oak, poison. See Sumach (R. toxicoden- 

 dron). 



Oriole, Baltimore, nest ingredients of , 224. 



Oven-bird, nest materials of, 224. 



Owls, 230. 



Oyster - plant ( Tragopogon porrifolius), 

 beautiful seed of, 172. 



PAINTED-CUP (Castilleia coccinea), 61. 



Papaw (Asimina triloba), 57. 



Parasites, insect, 67-72, 119, 145, 199. 



Partridge. See Grouse, Ruffed. 



Partridge-pea ( Cassia cham<zcrista),mgnt 

 transformation of, 125. 



Pea blossoms at night, 126. 



Peanut, young plant in kernel, 28 ; hog, 

 see Hog-peanut. 



Peepers. See Frog. 



Peppergrass (Lepidium Virginicum), ro- 

 settes of, in winter, 240-242. 



Phoebe-bird, 40. 



Photographs, instantaneous, of Muy- 

 bridge, 251. 



Phillotaxy, 242. 



Pickering's frog. See Frog. 



Pigeon Tremex ( Tremex columba), a vic- 

 tim to the drilling ichneumon fly, 238. 



Pignut. See Ground-nut Ginseng. 



Pig -weed (Chenopodium albttm), seed 

 packet of, 284; (Amarantus hybridus), 

 night attitude of leaves, 126. 



Pineapple, 57. 



Pine, pollen of, 115; explosive properties 

 of pollen, 149. 



Pine-cones : Clicking of, in March, 13 ; 

 gray squirrel burrowing for, 278 ; hy- 

 grometric properties of, 15 ; queer 



