Weevils, in forest-trees, 182, 191. 



Wet Mountain valley, 101. 



Wild Basin, 347. 



Willows, seeds, 296. 



Wind River, 347. 



Winds, on mountain-tops, 72- 



80; drying powers of, 126, 127; 



a mountain blizzard, 311-316. 

 Witch-hazel, flowers and seeds, 



301. 



Woodpecker, Batchelder, 197. 



Woodpecker, downy, the most 

 useful bird citizen, 193, 200; 

 a downy at work, 201-204. 



Woodpecker, hairy, 197, 198. 



Woodpeckers, value as destroy- 

 ers of noxious insects, 193-198; 

 holes, 198, 199; winter lodg- 

 ings, 199; nesting-holes, 199, 



200. 



