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INDEX 



20; perfumed (Osmoderma scabei), 

 133 ; blue oil, 239. 



Bellworts, 44. 



Bigelow, Hosea, quoted, 224. 



Billings, Josh, quoted, 92, 124. 



Birds' - nests, materials of: milk- 

 weed bark, toad-skins, and snake- 

 skins, 171, 172 ; twine and horse- 

 hair, caterpillar-skins, 172 ; wool, 

 dandelion seeds, 173; gray lichens 

 and seeds, 177. 



Black-paper hornet, his bad reputa- 

 tion, 94 ; a tempting target ; re- 

 sults of an attack on his house, 

 96 ; making themselves promiscu- 

 ous ; the stoical bachelor, 97 ; his 

 discomfiture, 98 ; antics explained; 

 his hiding - place revealed, 100 ; 

 favorite hunting-ground, 101 ; oc- 

 casional big game ; life of; manner 

 of laying eggs ; several broods in a 

 season, 102 ; number of tiers in a 

 nest ; winter the best time to ex- 

 amine nests, 103. 



Black snake, 85. 



Blossom etiquette, 221, 222. 



Blue carnation, 46. 



Blue dahlia, 45. 



Blue oil beetle, 239. 



Blue pansies, 46. 



Blue rose, 45, 46. 



Blue tulip, 45. 



Bluets, Houstonia, 24, 208, 

 209. 



Boletus, 142. 



Bridge-building spiders, 104. 



Brooklyn Bridge, 104 ; ' ' carrier " 

 or ' ' traveller " should have been 

 called "spider," 105; Engineer 

 Farrington crossing, no. 



Brown screech-owl, 151. 



Browning, Robert, quoted, 26. 



" Bull's-eye " caterpillar, 156. 



Bumble-bee, 6, 91. 



Butterflies asleep at night, 168. 



Butterflies: Idalia (Argynnis ida- 

 lia), Archippus (Danais ar chip- 

 pus), yellow swallow-tails (Papilio 

 turnus), 131; Red Admiral ( Va- 

 nessa Atalanta), 155, 158, 161 ; 

 "comma " (Vanessa comma], 156, 

 161, 170; Atalanta ( Cynthia Ata- 

 lanta), 158 ; semicolon ( Vanessa 

 interrogationis), 161. 



CANTERBURY bells, 42. 



Cardanus quoted, 93. 



Careless observation of nature, 185, 

 186. 



Carnation, blue, 46. 



Catbrier, 188. 



Caterpillars : woolly - bear (Arcti- 

 adee), 148; "bull's-eye" (Satttr- 

 nia Id), 156; sphinx (Chcerocampa 

 panipenatrix, 241. 



Cecropia, 156. 



Chinese pink, 73. 



Chipmonk, 153. 



Chrysalids, 161. 



Chrysanthemum, 86, 127. 



Cicada, 87, 246 ; his manner of feed- 

 ing ; how he differs from the grass- 

 hopper ; the secret of his music, 

 250 ; his last song ; borne off by 

 his captor, 251 ; living food, 254; 

 suspended animation, 255. 



Clintonia, 239. 



Clothes moth (Tineidcz), 170. 



Clover ( Trifolium ), four - leaved, 

 215; nine-leaved, found in groups, 

 216 ; possibilities of cultivation, 

 217 ; an exceptional find, 218, 



