INDEX 



Aliowat, 8, 132-134, 160. 



Anemone. See Rue-anemone. 



Angler, an English, 83-85. 



Anglo-Saxon, the, 45. 



Annan, 72. 



Annan bridge, 68, 69. 



Ants, 178-181. 



Arbutus, trailing, 164, 172, 173. 



Arethusa, 172. 



Argyll, Duke of, on the comparative 



merits of British and American 



song-birds, 113-116, 119. 

 Arnold, Matthew, quotations from, 



78, 169 ; 212. 

 Arthur's Seat, 48, 49, 

 Ash, 19. 

 Asters, 196. 



Audubon, John James, 123, 124. 

 Avon, the Scottish river, 39. 

 Ayr, 46. 

 Azaleas, 173. 



Barrington, Daines, 119, 128, 138. 



Bean, horse or Winchester, 169. 



Bear, black (Ursus americanus), 

 186. 



Bee. See Bumblebee and Honey- 

 bee. 



Beech, European, 18, 19, 40, 41, 97. 



Beetle, ants and, 179, 180. 



Beetle, Colorado, 194. 



Ben Lomond, 24. 



Ben Nevis, 25. 



Ben Venue, 23, 24, 155. 



Birds, blue not a common color 

 among British, 93 ; voices of Brit- 

 ish, 105, 142 ; source of the charm 

 of their songs, 113; the Duke of 

 Argyll on the comparative merits 

 of British and American song- 

 birds, 113-116 ; the American bird- 

 choir larger and embracing more 

 good songsters than the British, 

 119-129 ; British more familiar, 

 prolific, and abundant than Amer- 

 ican, 125, 126 ; superior vivacity 

 and strength of voice in British, 



126 ; hours and seasons of singing 

 of British and American, I'^tj, 127, 

 143; superior sweetness, tender- 

 ness, and melody in the songs of 

 American, 128, 143-145; the two 

 classes of British song-birds, 142, 

 143 ; certain localities favored by, 

 144 ; British more prolific than 

 American, 189, 190; warm and 

 compact nests of British, 190; 

 abundance of British, 190-192. 



Blackberry, 18, 52, 168. 



Blackbird, European, song of, 86, 

 90, 105, 114, 129, 136, 139, 145; 

 nest of, 66. 



Blackbird, red-winged. See Star- 

 ling, red-shouldered. 



Blackcap, or black-capped warbler, 

 87, 92 ; song of, 105, 115, 123, 129, 

 137, 140. 



Blood-root, 172. 



BluebeU. See Hyacinth, wild. 



Bluebird (Sialia sialis), notes of, 

 120, 123, 129. 



Blue-boimet, 189. 



Blue-weed, or viper's buglosa, 168, 

 171. 



Bobolink {Bolichonyz oryzivonis), 

 song of, 118, 120, 123, 125, 129. 



Bob-white. See Quail. 



Bouncing Bet, 171. 



Boys, at Ecclefechan, 64-66 ; a God- 

 aiming boy, 92-95. 



Bridges, arched, C8, 69. 



Brig o' Doon, 26. 



Britain. See Great Britain. 



Bryant, William Cullen, as a poet of 

 the woods, 43. 



Bugloss, viper's. See Blue -weed. 



Building-stone, softness of British, 

 20. 



Bullfinch, notes of, 129. 



Bumblebee, 17-19, 195. 



Bunting, indigo. Srr Indigo-bird. 



Burns, Robert, the Scotch love of, 

 48 ; quotation from, 135 ; 225. 



Buttercup, 16, 165, 196. 



