INDEX 



Crow, fish, 55, 56, 68. 

 Cuckoo, 71, 72, 87; solemnity, 



88; nesting, 88, 89; young, 



89; nest, 90; food, 90. 

 Cuckoo, black-billed, notes, 



87, 88; nesting-habits, 88. 

 Cuckoo, yellow-billed, 87. 



Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., at 

 San Diego, 210, 211. 



Darwin, Charles, quoted, 5, 17, 

 18, 33; his eager study of nat- 

 ural history, 17, 18; observa- 

 tions during the voyage of 

 the Beagle, 18, 19; failure of 

 his theory, 147, 167-69; his 

 mind, 173; treated man as 

 an animal, 174. 



Darwin, George Howard, on 

 the tides, 169, 170. 



Darwinism, a cause of the 

 World War, 172-75. 



Death, an analogy of, 185, 186. 



Desert, vegetation of the, 143- 

 48. 



Dove, mourning, or turtle- 

 dove, 86. 



Earth, the, quiverings of the 

 surface, 169-71; the North- 

 ern and Southern Hemi- 

 spheres, 171, 172. 



Edison, Thomas A., 114, 119; 

 contrasted with Mr. Ford, 

 122-25. 



Elm, autumn color, 3. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quot- 

 ed, 69, 165, 186. 



Erosion, as sculpture, 181-83. 



Fabre, Jean Henri, 162; quot- 

 ed, 139. 



Far-away, the, 39. 



Fear in animals, 58, 59, 154, 

 155, 209. 



Fireflies, 19. 



Firestone, H. S., 119, 125. 



Fish, schools of, 154. 



Fleas 210. " 



Flies,' inteiligence, 156, 157. 



Foraminiferae, 194. 



Ford, Henry, 113, 114, 119, 



120; contrasted with Mr. 



Edison, 122-24. 

 Foxes, 180. 

 Frog, wood, 94, 95. 



Germans, Darwinism, and the 



World War, 172-75. 

 Giraffe, 200. 



Girls, two West Virginia, 115. 

 Gnatcatcher, blue-gray, 103. 

 God, man appropriating, 199. 

 Goldfinch, flight, 37, 42; chorus 



singing, 40-42; notes, 42; 



notes of young, 43; nesting, 



43. 

 Grand Canon, 182, 194. 

 Grass, the wonder of, 74, 75. 

 Grasshoppers, 155. 

 Great Smoky Mts., 109. 

 Greensborough, Pa., 112. 

 Grosbeak, rose-breasted, nest* 



ing, 65. 

 Grouse, ruffed, 166. 

 Gull, herring, 131. 

 Gulls, flight, 38. 



Hawk, red-tailed, 32. 

 Hawks, flight, 35. 

 Haymaking, 69-76. 

 Hen-hawk, flight, 35. 

 Hornets, 163. 

 Horns, 201, 202. 

 Horse, 205, 206. 

 Horseshoe Run, W.Va., 114. 

 Hummingbird, ruby-throated, 



64; bathing in dew, 13; nest, 



79; a fairy bird, 94. 

 Hurley, Edward N., 113. 

 Huxley, Thomas Henry, 27; 



quoted, 8, 25. 



Ibis, white, 32, 153, 154. 

 Insects, their world, 23-25, 162; 

 senses, 24; reaction to heat. 



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