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CIVIC BIOLOGY 



Warbling vireo, 50 



Wasps, 153 



Water beetles, larvai of, 131 



Water bugs, 153 



Water cress, 306, 307 



Water hemlock, 73, 75 



AVater lilies, 306, 307 



Water snakes, 326 



Waterfowl, 38, 39, 40, 45, 324 



Wax wings, 50 



Weasels, 169 



Weeds, 67-76; adaptability of, 70; 



classes of, 70, 71 ; damage from, 



68 ; destruction and control of, 34, 



69, 71 ; medicinal, 71, 72 

 Weeping willow, 84 

 Weevils, 155, 156, 317 

 Western little-neck clam, 278 

 AVestern prairie chicken. 42 

 Whale, 169 

 Wheat, 93, 94, 95, 97 

 Whippoorwill, 47, 129 

 Whistling swan, 39 

 White ants, 153, 155 

 White ash, 82 

 White cedar, 59 

 White diarrhea of chicks, 233 

 White elm, 59 

 White hellebore, 76 

 White man's plant, 75 

 White pine, 59,' 84 ; type for study, 



4. 5, 6 

 White-breasted nuthatch, 51 

 Whitefish, 309 



White-marked tussock moth, 156 

 White-throated sparrow, 49 

 Whooping cough, 232, 234, 247 

 Wicky, 75 

 Widal reaction, 251 

 Wild boar, 263 

 Wild carrot, 71 

 Wild cat, 169 

 Wild celery, 307 



Wild cherry, 75 



Wild duck, 53, 325 



Wild onion, 71 



Wild rice, 307 



Wild rose, 86 



Wild sago, 307 



AVild trout, 305 



AAlld turkey, 42, 53 



AA^illow^ 59, 307 



AAHson snipe, 40 



AA^ilson's thrush, 51 



Wilt disease, 212 ; bacterial blight, 



215 ; stem blight, 216 

 AVindow flytrap, 108, 109 

 VA^ode-whistle, 75 

 AA^olf, 169, 256 ; itch mite of, 166 

 AA^olfsbane, 76 

 Wolf's-milk, 76 

 AA' olverine, 169 

 AA^ood duck, 39, 40, 306, 307 

 AA^ood frog, 315, 316, 319 

 Wood laurel, 75 

 AA^ood pewee, food of, 24, 47 

 AVood thrush, 51 

 AVood ticks, 1(55, 168 

 AA^oodcock, 40 

 AA'oodpecker, 7, 46 

 AA^oolly apple louse, 156 

 AA^'oolly loco weed, 76 

 AA'orms, 51, 315 

 AA'ormseed. (iO 

 AA^rens. 50 



Yeara. 75 



Yeast, 186, 189-197 ; a cause of dis- 

 ease, 197 ; description of, 191, 192 ; 

 distribution of, 192 ; pure aulture 

 of, 195 ; uses of, 194 



Yellow fever, 20, 123, 124, 126, 134, 

 233, 236, 240, 253, 254, 256, 258 



Yellow perch, 309 ; topography of, 

 298 



Yellow pine, 59 



