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INDEX. 



Otus brachyotus, 185. 

 Owl, barn, 221. 



great-horned, 221. 



saw-whet, 218, 220, 224. 



short-eared, 185. 



Tengmalm's, 219. 

 Owls, as weather-prophets, 222. 



food of, 223. 



Peeper, 330. 



Pcrca flavescens, 360, 435. 



Perch, goggle-eyed, 367, 385. 



pirate, 386, 435. 



Band, 355. 



white, 366. 



yellow, 360, 435. 

 Percina caprodes, 355. 

 Peschel, Oscar, 133. 

 Petrochelidon lunifrons, 171. 

 Petromyzon marinus, 435, 441. 

 Pickering's tree-toad, 330. 

 Pike-shiner, 418. 

 Pipilo erythrophthalmus, 141. 

 Pisidium, sp., 384. 

 Plethodon erytbronotus, 343. 

 Plover, 201, 203, 205. 

 Poecelichtbys erochrous, 360. 

 Pomoxys sparoides, 367. 

 " Popular Science Monthly," quoted, 



15. 



Porzana Carolina, 180. 

 Princeton, N. J., observations on mi- 

 gration of birds made at, 164. 

 Pseudemys rugosa, 264. 

 Putnam, Professor F. W., on habits 



of spade-foot toad, 346. 

 Putorius ermineus, 27. 



vison, 84. 

 Pyrgites domesticus, 5, 195. 



Rail-bird, king, 22. 



little, or sora, 180. 

 Rain, a southerly, 242. 

 Rallus clcgans, 22. 

 Rana Catesbyana, 319. 



clamitans, 318. 



halecina, 317. 



palustris, 316. 



temporaria, 324, 348. 

 Rangifer caribou, 1 7. 

 Red-fins, 409, 434. 

 Reindeer, 17. 



Rhinichthys atronasus, 419. 



nasutus, 420. 

 Rhizopods, 381. 

 Roach, 403. 



Robin, variation in nests of. 125. 

 Roccus Americanus, 366. 



lineatus, 303. 

 Rock-fish, 363. 



Rodentia, monograph of North Amer- 

 ican, 64. 



Romanes, George J., on animal in- 

 telligence, 345. 



Salamanders, 339. 



dusky, 342. 



red, 344. 



red-backed, 343. 

 Sandpipers, 201. 

 Scapbiopus solitarius, 325. 

 "Science," quoted, 15. 

 " Science-Gossip," quoted, 15. 

 Sciuropterus volucella, 61. 

 Scott, W. D., on migration of birds 



at night, 164. 

 Semotilus bullaris, 407. 



corporalis, 409. 

 Semper, Carl, on skin respiration of 



frogs, 274. 



Shabbaconk Creek, 388. 

 Shiners, 402. 

 Shrews, 64, 449. 

 Sill-hoppe tosser, 313. 

 " Signal Service Notes, No. IX.," 56. 

 Skunk, 38, 279. 

 Snakes, 282, 297, 298, 303. 

 Snake, black, 284. 



blind, 306 



brown, 294. 



chain, 302. 



cricket, 306. 



garter, 294. 



green, 300. 



ground, 306. 



hog-nosed, 287, 310. 



hoop, 169. 



rattle, 285. 



red, 306. 



ribbon, 296. 



ring, 301. 



thunder and lightning, 302. 



water, 291, 307. 

 Snappers, 269, 276. 

 Spade-foot toad, 328. 



