INDEX 
Adirondacks, the, 41; camping in, 
69-92. 
Alder, 20, 130. 
Alder Creek, 177. 
Anemone, 146. 
Anemone, grove, 147. 
jremong, | Pennsylvania, 147. 
ple, 
aout, 128. 
Arbutus, 146, 147, 155. 
Ash, swamp, 90. 
‘Audubon, John James, 22, 65, 67, 
107, 110, 124, 142, 150, 203, 207, 
211 his “ornithological work, 214" 
Autumn, approach and arrival of, 
34, 35. 
Azalea, 155. 
Azalea, pink, 12. 
Baird, Prof. Spencer F., 216, 222. 
Balsam Lake, 161 
eernints Vincent, 117. 
Bats, 7! 
Bear, tack (Ursus americanus), 91, 
1 
Beaver (Castor Hera 39, 
Beaver Kill, 15: 
Beaverkill Mountains, 97. 
Beech, 73, 157. 
Beech, water, 20. 
Big Ingin River, 159. 
Birch, black, 157, 172. 
Birch, yellow, 68, 78, 76, 157. 
Birds, coming and going of Hie 2 
spring songs of songless, 7, 8 ; in: 
fluence of civilization upon their 
habits, 10, 11, 223, 224; distribu- 
tion of, 18-21; gradual cessation 
of song in summer, 30; geograph- 
ical distribution dependent on the 
climate, 38; voices of, 40; hu- 
man significance of their songs, 
41; development of the wings in 
young, 62; sanitary system among, 
98, 99; second marriages among, 
100-102, 198; women’s rights 
among, 102, 103; plumage in its 
relation to concealment, 102, 
103 ; order of migration of, 
103 ; irregularity in nesting habits 
of, 106-109; nests for second 
broods, 108; location of nests 
with a view to safety, 108, 109; 
the greatest enemies of, 109; 
their confidence in man, 109, 
110, 138, 222-224; in the city of 
Washington, 109-111 ; conceal- 
ment of nests in the woods, 111; 
a classification as to certain nest- 
ing habits, 124, 125; migrating 
at night, 143,144; feeding ranges 
of various, 150; blue, 191; art 
in protecting their nests, 193; di- 
vision of the useful and the or- 
namental qualities between the 
sexes, 193, 194; excess of males 
among, 198; delights of the 
study of, 201-' “204; books on, 204, 
205, 214-216 ; representatives of 
the principal families of, 205-214 ; 
Western duplicates of Eastern, 
217; walking and hopping, 218; 
the food question, 220-223; pro- 
tected from the cold by fat, 221, 
222; fear of man an acquired 
trait, 222, 223; on an uninhabited 
aeland, 223; of the seashore, 224, 
25. 
Birds of prey, 109. 
Blackberry, 20. 
Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle 
(Quiscalus quiscula), 1373; chas- 
ing a purple finch, 138 ; habits of, 
138, 139; notes of, 137 ; nest of, 
107, 139. 
Blackbirds, 218. 
Bloodroot, 146, 147. 
Bloody-Moose Pond, 73. 
Bluebird (Sialia sialis), arrival in 
spring, 1-3, 189, 190; 56, 103 n.; 
compared with the English robin, 
190, 191; its Western congeners, 
191, 192; nest-building, 194, 195; 
