INDEX 



211 



Toad, 144, 147, 148 n., 174. SeeTree- 



toad. 

 Toad-flax, 192, 195, 202, 209, 210. 

 Tobacco, 203. 

 Tortoise, 117. 

 Towhee. Sre Chewink. 

 Tree-crickets, 135, 136. 

 Tree-toad, 70, 145-150. 

 Trout, brook, their fondness for 



springs, 38, 39, 42, 44, 96 ; caught 



with tickliiiL', KIT. 

 Trout-fishing, 23, 29. 

 Trowbridge, John T., his natural 



history, 88, 89 ; quotations from, 



89. 

 Turkey, wild (.V' leagris gallopavo), 



225, 22< I, 228, 229. 

 Turtle, 117. 

 Turtle-head, 92. 

 Twin-flower. See Linnasa. 

 Two-teeth. See Bideus. 



Velvet-leaf. See Abutilon. 



Venus's looking-glass, 208. 



Vervain, 208. 



Vetch, or tare, 20(5. 



Violet, in poetry, 85. 



Violet, Canada, 93, 188 ; its fra- 

 grance, 189, 190; 191. 



Violet, common blue. 85, 185, 191. 



Violet, English, 85. 185. 



Violet, white, 85, 93, 188, 191. 



Violet, yellow, 92-94. 



Vireo, in poetry, 110. 



Virgil, on honey-bees, (50, 75-77 ; 

 quotations from, 97, 99, 200. 



Walking, in England, 17G-178 ; a 



simple and natural pastime, 182, 



183. 

 Warbler, yellow-rumped, or myrtle 



(Dendroica coronata), 226. 

 Wasp, sand. iSV Hornet, sand. 

 Water-lily. See Pond-lily. 

 Waxwing, cedar. S<>e Cedar-bird. 

 Weasel, 168. 

 Weebutook River, 44. 

 Weeds, 191 ; their devotion to 



man, 193 ; the gardener and the 



farmer the best friei <!- of, 

 194 ; Nature's makeshift, 194 

 196 ; neat travelers, 196 199; 

 their abundance in America, L99, 

 200 : oative and foreign, - 

 the growth of, 207 ; escaped from 

 cultivation, 207 ; beautiful, 

 209 ; uses of various, 209, _'l" 

 persist, lit and universal than 

 grass, 210 ; virtues ( t, 210. 

 Well of St. Winifred, 12. 

 Wheat, winter, 94, 95. 

 Whip-poor-will (Antrostomtli voci- 



ferus), soul: of. 1.",. 

 Whiteweed. See Fleabane. 

 Whitman, Walt, a close student of 

 American nature, 107-109; quo- 

 tations from, in;. 108. 

 Whittier, John Greenleaf, as a poet 

 of nature, 99-101 ; quotations 

 lrom, 99-101, 201. 

 Winchester, Va., 41. 

 Wintergreen, false, <>r pyrola, 188. 

 Wintergreeu, spotted, 188. 

 Witch-hazel, 93. 

 Woodchuck {Arctomi/s monax). 



158-103. 

 Wood-frog, 144. 



Woodpecker, in poetr\. 105, 106. 

 Woodpecker, downv [Dryobates pu- 

 bescent), 220. 

 Woodpecker, golden-winged. > 



High-hole. 

 Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or yel- 

 low-bellied sapsucker [Sphyrapi- 

 cus varius), drumming of, 106. 

 Wood-pigeons, 88. 

 Wood-sorrel, common, 206. 

 Wood-sorrel, yellow, 206 

 Wordsworth, William, quotations 



from, 113, 186, 

 Wren, Carolina [Thryothonu /> <lo- 



vicianus), notes of , 233. 

 Wren, house (Troglo</;/t' s ai.'<Io>i), 

 notes of, 16 ; nest of," 155. 



Yarrow, 202. 

 Yellow- jacket, 117. 

 Yew, American, 81 



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