INDEX 



thus pen3ilvanicus\ 37, 101; 



song of, 52; nest of, 62. 

 Plover, golden {Charadrius do- 

 miniums), 116; notes of, 115. 

 Plover Bay, 108-111. 

 Poets, mistakes of, 204, 206. 

 Police officer, a Jamaican, 238, 



239. 

 Pond-lily, 152, 153, 203. 

 Poplar, Lombardy, 16. 

 Popof Island, 94. 

 Poppy, yellow, 106, 111, 122. 

 Port Antonio, 226, 227. 

 Fort Clarence, 112-117. 

 Fort Henderson, Jamaica, 252, 



253. 

 Port Morant, Jamaica, 269. 

 Port Royal, Jamaica, 262. 

 Port Wells, 73-77. 

 'Possum, ice Opossum. 

 Pribilof Islands, 104-106. 

 Price River, 8. 

 Primrose, 111, 114. 

 Prince of "Wales Island, 32. 

 Prince William Sound, 66, 68-80, 



82. 

 Prospector, a, in Alaska, 72, 73. 

 Ptarmigan (Zagopus sp.), 75. 

 Ptarmigan, white-tailed (Lagopus 



leucurus), 52. 

 Fufan, 119. 



Quail, Spanish, of Jamaica, a tan- 

 ager (SpindcUls nigrioephala), 

 267. 



Queen Cliarlotte Sound, 26. 



Quit, blue, 268 ; nest of, 236. 



Quit, grass, song of, 268; nest of, 

 268. 



Quit, orange, nest of, 268. 



Rabbit, gray, 154; nest and young 



of, 219-222. 

 Raccoon. See Coon. 

 RadclifEe Glacier, 73. 

 Raven, northern (Corvus corax 



prmetpalis), 28; abundance in 



Alaska, 31 ; 91 ; notes of , 31, 55. 

 Redstart, American (Setophaga 



ruticUla), 45, 265. 

 Rhexia. See Meadow-beauty. 



Rhododendron, a dwarf, 88. 



Ridgway, Robert, 22, 45, 101. 



Rio Cobre, 231. 



RioMlnho, 232, 233, 237, 240-243. 



Ritter, Prof. William E., 22, 65, 

 66. 



River, living on the bank of a 

 great, 131, 132. 



Robin, American (MeriUa migra^ 

 toria), at Slabsides, 133-136, 144; 

 young fed by a chipping spar- 

 row, 163, 164; 176; nest and young 

 of, 134^136. 



Robin, Oregon. See Thrush, var 

 tied. 



BiObin, western (MenUa Tuiigra^ 

 toria propinqua), 45. 



Rocky Mountains, the, crossing, 

 4,5. 



Roses, wild, 124. 



Russell Fiord, 59-63. 



Sagebrush, 6, 11, 12, 15, 16. 



St. Elias Range, 57, 58, 66, 125. 



St. liawrence Island, 117, 118, 



St. Matthew Island, 118, 121-123. 



St. Paul, Kadiak, 85. 



St. Paul Island, 104-106. 



Salmon, canning, 78 ; seining, 126, 



127. 

 Salmon-berries, 126, 128. 

 Sand Point, 94. 

 Sandpiper, Aleutian (ArquateUa 



couesi), call of, 120. 

 San Salvador, 226. 

 Saunders, De Alton, 22, 65. 

 Saxifrage, 88, 111, 114, 121. 

 Seal, fur, 104-106. 

 Searlion, 103, 104. 

 Seasons, changes of the, 264. 

 Seattle, 20, 128. 

 Sensitive plant, 234, 236. 

 Serpentine Glacier, 76. 

 Seymour Narrows, 24. 

 Shattega Creek, the stream and 



its wild neighbors, 147-153 ; a 



bluebird's nest on, 215-219. 

 Ship. See George W. Elder. 

 Shishaldin Volcano, 97, 98. 

 Shooting-star, 114. 

 Shoshone, 9, 16. 



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