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INDEX 



Bullfrop, 255. 



Bumblebee, 14 ; visiting the closed 



gentian, 27 and note ; drones, 2G9, 

 Bunting, black-throated, or dick- 



cissel (Spiza americana), 239 ; 



song of, 230. 

 Bunting, indigo. See Indigo-bird. 

 Bunting, Know, or snowflake {Plec- 



trophenax nivalis), 200. 



Calf, fear in the young, 195. 



Calypso, the orchid, 1, 2. 



Cambium layer, the, 158. 



Camp, repairing, 47, 52 ; rain in, 

 48 ; a cold night in, 52-54. 



Camping, in the southern Catskills, 

 33-GO. 



Campion, bladder, 29. 



Canary, 9G, 97, 191, 305. 



Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), 

 239. 



Cardinal-flower, 11, 29. 



Carlyle, Thomas, a woman's opinion 

 of, 108, 109; quotation from, 

 297. 



Catbird {Galeoscoptes caroUnenis), 

 142 ; song of, 308. 



Cats, chipmunks and, 148-150 ; red 

 squirrels and, 195. 



Catskills, mountaineering in the 

 southern , 33-GO ; the rocks of, 

 34, 46, 47 ; the water of, 40. 



Cattle, backwoods, 58, 59. 



Cedar-bird, or cedar waxwing {Am- 

 peli^cedrorum), 72, 200; nest and 

 eggs of, 70, 72. 



Charming, the power of, 255-257. 



Chat, yellow-breasted {Icteria vi- 

 rens), 239. 



Chelone, or turtle-head, 29. 



Cherry pits, 151, 152. 



Chewink, or towhee {Pipilo ery- 

 throphthalmus), 14. 



Chickadee {Parus airicapilhts), 121 ; 

 young leaving the nest, 292, 293 ; 

 family life continued after the 

 nest is left, 293, 294 ; a fatal mal- 

 ady, 294 ; a male feeding his mate, 

 298 ; notes of, 293, 294 ; nest of, 

 70, 257, 258, 292, 293, 298, 299. 



Chipmunk {Tamias striatus), 140; 

 spring awakening of, 145, 163 ; 

 breeding habits of, 14(5 ; manners 

 and conversation of, 146 ; enemies 

 of, 146, 147; nervous, impetuous 

 ways of, 147, 148 ; a hermit, 148, 

 152; adventures with cats, 148- 

 150 ; the digging and furnishing 

 of the den, 150, 151 ; food for the 

 winter, 115, 152, 194 ; sociability, 



152; pursued by a weasel, ir2- 

 154. 



Chippie, or social sparrow {Spizella 

 socialis), 72; a curious mishap, 

 124, 125 ; and young cowbird, 315, 

 316 ; nest and eggs of, 64, 124. 



Claytonia, or spring beauty, 42, 43. 



Clintonia, 42. 



Clover, red, 42. 



Clover, sweet, or melilotus, 29. 



Columbine, 13. 



Condor, 309. 



Cone-Hower, or rudbeckia, 98. 



Contentment, 87-90. 



Coon. See Raccoon. 



Corydalis, 13. 



Cowbird, or cow-bunting {Molo- 

 thrus ater), desecrating a vireo's 

 nest, 290, 291 ; the young bird and 

 its foster-parent, 315-316. 



Crane, sandhill {Grus mexicana), 

 105-107; nest and eggs of, 105, 106. 



Crickets, field, hibernating of, 255. 



Crow, American {Corvus america- 

 nus), their fellow-feeling and cour- 

 tesy towards each other, 119, 120 ; 

 suspiciousness of, 121, 122, 164, 

 171, 265, 298; the male feeding 

 his mate, 312; notes of, 163; 

 nest of, 312. 



Cuckoo, European, 316. 



Cypripedium. See Lady's-slipper. 



Daffodil, 19. 



Dandelion, 104, 105. 



David, a guide in the Catskills, 39, 



40. 

 Deer, "Virginia {Cariacus virgini- 



anus), 41, 277-279. 

 Dicentra. See Dutchman's breeches 



and Squirrel com. 

 Dickcissel. See Bunting, black- 

 throated, 239. 

 Dipper, European, eggs of, 65. 

 Dog, a, detected in stealing, 58, 59 ; 



a red squirrel's race with a, 198, 



199, 256. 

 Dog-toes, 98. 

 Double-Top, 43. 

 Dove, turtle or mourning {Zenai- 



dura macroura), 236, 299; nest 



and young of, 299, 300. 

 Duck, eider, 70. 

 Ducks, wild, 101, 161. 

 Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cu- 



cullana), 4. 



Eel, 252. 



Emerson, Ralph "Waldo, 109, 245; 

 quotations from, 14, 63. 



