INDEX. 



Abalone (Haliotis), 221-226. 



" shell- jewellery, 224. 

 Agassiz, Alexander, 78, 79, 88. 



" Prof essor Louis, 78. 

 Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in win- 

 ter, 65. 

 Allocochick. (See. Shell-money. ) 

 Amateurs in natural science, 50. 

 Ancistrodon contortrix, 91, 95. 

 " piseworus, 91, 94. 



Antelopes (Antiloeapra americana) in winter, 



74. 

 Antiloeapra amerieana, 74. 

 Antlers, growth of, 168-172. 

 Area plexata, 135. 

 ArehiteutMs, 161, 164. 

 Asterias arenicola, 124. 



" vulgaris, 124. 

 Astragalinus tristis, 15. 



Basilisk, the, 28. 

 Batrachians, 64. 

 Bats in winter, 72. 

 Bearded sea], 188. 

 Bears in winter, 74. 

 Bee-marten. (See King-bird.) 

 Birds and Serpents, 28, 30, 96. 



" effect of terror upon, 29, 96. 



" in winter, 66, 68. 



" mimicking powers of, 22. 



" of a brookside, 39. 



" pugnacity of, 27. 



" vigilance of, 22. 

 Blarina brevicauda, 33. 

 Blind animals, 216. 

 Blood-quahaug (Area plexata), 135. 

 Blue-bird (Bialia sialis), 26. 

 Bob "White, a chat about, 175-181. 

 Borer, the, 145. 

 Brook, attractive features of a, 39. 



Butterflies in winter, 61. 

 Butting a log, 14. 



Callineetes hastatus, 147. 

 Cancer irroratus, 147. 

 Oariaeus moxrotis, 74. 



" mrginianus, 74. 

 Carolina wren, 22-26, 27. 

 Caudisona tergemina, 91. 

 Caves, animal life of, 215. 

 " at Luray, 203. 

 " at Pike's Peak, 216-220. 

 " characteristics of, 203-220. 

 " formation of, in limestone, 206. 

 Gentronyx bairdi, 57. 

 dermis canadensis, 168. 

 Clwilura pelasgia, 66. 

 Ohelopus inuhlenbergii, 56. 

 Che wink. (See Towhee Finch.) 

 Chipping sparrows (Spieella soeialis), 21. 

 Clam, hard or round. (See Quahaug.) 

 Oliona sulphurea, 149. 



Coiling, tendency towards, in mollusks, 117. 

 Conch-shells, 137, 232. 

 'Coon oysters. (See Ostrea mrginiana.) 

 Coot, eating star-fishes, 136. 

 Copperhead (Aneistrodon eontortrix), 91, 95. 

 Cowry (Gyprma moneta), 227. 

 Crab, common shore, 147. 

 " in the oyster, 148. 

 " soft-shelled, 147. 

 " the blue, 147. 

 Grepidula fornicata, 118. 

 Grotalidw, origin of name, 90. 

 Crotalus admanteus, 92. 

 " confluentus, 93. 

 " Iwrridus, 90. 

 " kirtlandi, 92. 

 " miliaria, 92. 

 Curiosity in small animals, 97, 100. 



