INDEX 



237 



Fleabane, or whiteweed, 192, 199, ! 

 203. 



Flicker. See High-hole. 



Flowers, wild, in poetry, 84-86, 90, 

 92-94, 101, 102, 172, 186 ; fragrant, 

 185-193. 



Footpaths, lack of, in America, 175- 

 178, ISO ; English, 178, 180, 181 ; 

 a schoolboy's footpath, 178, 179. 



Forenoon, as distinguished from 

 morning, 32. 



Fort Washington, 224. 



Fox, red ( Vulpes vulpes var. fulvus), 

 100 ; and hound, 140-144 ; 158 ; 

 hunting a, 214-222 ; favorite sleep- 

 ing places of, 218 ; hard fare in 

 winter, 222, 223 ; an encounter be- 

 tween rivals, 223 ; 230. 



Fringed-orchis, purple, 188, 191. 



Frog. See Bullfrog. 



Frog, clucking. See Wood-frog. 



Frog, peeping. See Hyla, Picker- 

 ing's. 



Garlic, 210. 



Gentian, closed, 59, 60, 92. 



Gentian, fringed, 59 ; Bryant's poem 



on, 92, 93 ; 185. 

 Gill, 202. 

 Girls, 30. 

 Goethe, 79. 



Goldenrod, 92; 185, 192. 199, 201. 

 Goldfinch, American (Spinus tris- 



lis), 109 ; pairing habits of, 138 ; 



notes of, 109, 138. 

 Goose-foot, 194. 

 Grackle, purple. See Blackbird, 



crow. 

 Grackle, rusty, or rusty blackbird 



(Scolecophagus carolinus), notes 



of, 82. 

 Grass, the natural covering of the 



fields, 210. 

 Grass, harvest, 194. 

 Grass, quack, 194. 

 Grass, quitch, 202. 

 Green Cove Spring, 41. 

 Greyhound, 167. 

 Ground-nut, 1S8. 

 Grouse, ruffed, or partridge (Bonasa 



umbellus), in poetry, 96 ; 131 ; 



drumming of, 89. 

 "Gums," 230. 

 Gum-tree, 230. 



Harrisonburg, Va., 42. 

 Harvard, 26. 



Harvest-fly. See Cicada. 



Hawk, in poetry, lot). See Hen- 

 hawk. 



Hawkfish. See Osprey, American. 



Hawk's Point, 32. 



Hedgehog, 171. 



Hedge-sparrow, 171. 



Hemlock, poison, 202 



Henbane, 202. 



Hen-hawk, 108. 



Hepatica, or liver-leaf, 85 ; the first 

 spring flower, 94 ; 188 ; an inter- 

 mittently fragrant flower, 1 



Hercules, 50. 



Heron, 4, 5, 8. 



Heron, great blue (Ardea fierodias), 

 20 ; notes of, 20, 24. 



High-hole, or golden-winged wood- 

 pecker, or flicker {Colaptes aura- 

 ius), 57, 109 ; notes of, 109 ; nest 

 of, 155. 



Highlands of the Hudson, the, 66. 



Holywell, 42. 



Honey, flowers which yield, 192, 

 193. 



Honey-bee, a product of civilization, 

 53, 54 ; wandering habits of, 54, 

 55 ; hunting wild bees, 55-75 ; 

 method of handling, 05, 06 ; as 

 robbers, 70 ; enemies of, 75, 76 ; 

 Virgil on, 75-77; 122, 172, 173, 

 192, 193, 210. 



Honeysuckle, 188, 193. 



Hooker, Sir Joseph, 199 



Hop-clover, 202. 



Hornet, black, 117, 118. 



Hornet, sand, 117-121. 



Hound, fox and, 140-144, 107, 214, 

 219-223. 



Hound's-tongue, 202. 



Housatonic River, 44. 



Houstonia, or innocence, 85, 186. 



Humble-bee. Se>' Bumblebee. 



Hummingbird, ruby-throated (Tro- 

 ehilus colubris), in poetry, 80 

 nest of, 210. 



Hunt, Helen, quotation from, 201. 



Hyacinth, wild, 1st. 



Hyla, Pickering's, or peepimr frog 

 116, 144, 145; arboreal life of 

 150, 151. 



Hylas, the story of, 50. 



Indigo-bird, or indigo bunting {Pas 

 serina cyaw'a), 110; notes of, 22 



Haggard, 171. 

 Hancock, 29, 30, 33. 



Hare, northern (Lepus americanus ( Innocence. S" Houstonia 

 var. virginianus), 216. Insects, nocturnal, 135, 136 



Hares, 87, 88. Iron-weed, 208. 



