INDEX 



Thrush, hermit, 110. 



Thrush, wood, a pair and their nest, 



68-71 ; young leaving nest, 74, 75. 

 Time, future, 253. 

 Tody, 113. 

 Tracks, in snow, 209, 242; of the 



Eternal, 242. 

 Trowbridge, John Townsend, 167, 



222. 

 Truth, 326, 327. 



Universe, the, great movements, 

 311; vast spaces, 311, 312. 



Variation, 273, 274, 278, 279. 



Vireo, red-eyed, feeding-habits, 9; 

 song, 98; and nest, 104, 105. 



Vireo, yellow-throated, nest, 71, 72. 



Vireos, nests, 71, 105. 



Virgil, 233. 



Vital force, 188, 189. 



VitaUsm, 284. 



Vulture, turkey. See Buzzard, tur- 

 key. 



War, the world, 322-24. 

 Warbler, bay-breasted, 15. 

 Warbler, Biackburnian, 10, 15. 

 Warbler, black-poll, song, 7. 

 Warbler, Canadian, 12, 15. 

 Warbler, golden-winged, a pair and 



their nest, 58-60. 

 Warbler, Kentucky, feeding-habits, 



9- 



Warbler, magnolia, 16. 



Warbler, myrtle, 9, 11, 16. 



Warbler, Wilson's, 9. 



Warbler, yellow palm, or yellow red- 

 poll, 1, 11. 



Warblers, effects of a cold spring 

 upon, 15-17; migration wave of, 

 21; the May visitation, 54, 55. 



Wasp, Ammophila, 136. 



Wasp, Cerceris, 136. 



Wasp, Sphex, 136, 204. 



Wasps, intelligence of, 131-36, 138, 

 203, 204; bluffing of the male, 290, 

 291. 



Water, circuit of, 299, 300. 



Water-thrush, northern, 6. 



Waxwing, cedar, 96; nesting, 104, 

 105. 



Weasel, 155, 279, 280. 



West Virginia, 182. 



Whirlwinds, 112. 



Whitman, Walt, 222, 255; quoted, 

 29, 94, 226, 229, 230, 254, 317, 

 318; Bliss Perry's biography, 225- 

 27; his main characteristics, 225- 

 28; compared with Wordsworth, 

 228-32. 



Whittier, John Greenleaf, 226. 



Woodchuck, 30, 156, 158, 194, 197. 



Woodpecker, downy, 24, 50, 160, 

 208. 



Woodpecker, yellow-bellied. See 

 Sapsucker. 



Woodpeckers, drumming, 97. 



Wordsworth, WilUam, compared 

 with Walt Whitman, 228-32; 

 quoted, 245, 246, 307; attitude 

 toward Nature, 245. 



Wren, house, young leaving nest, 

 75; restless energy, 77, 78; songs 

 and other notes, 77-79 ; cock nests, 

 78, 83, 86, 117; hostiUty of other 

 birds towards, 79; quarrel with 

 bluebirds, 80-82; sham battles, 

 83, 84; nesting, 84-86; a tame 

 pair, 85, 86, 88. 

 Wren, marsh, cock nests, 117. 

 Wren, winter, song, 78, 79. 

 Writing, the secret of good, 223, 224, 

 240. 



