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 stu Jy 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, intelligence, 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 Cafion, 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, 



220 



