INDEX 
palm warbler (Dendroica palma- 
rum hypochrysea), 141 
Warbler, yellow-rumped, or myrtle 
warbler (Dendroica coronata), 71, 
136, 207. 
Warblers, colors of their legs, 65; 
migrating through Washington, 
143, 144, 148, 149; feeding ranges 
of, 150; remarks on the family 
and its " representatives, 205-207 ; 
hoppers, 218. 
Washington, ps C., birds in, 109- 
111; 127-156. 
‘Water-cress, 146, 147, 
‘Water-fowl, 99, 401, 107, 223. 
‘Water-thrush, Louisiana, or cs 
billed (Seiurus motacilla), 
_ 151, 219; notes of, 151, 181, ain” 
Water- thrush, Northern (Seiurus 
noveboracensis), 151, 180, 181, 
216, 219; notes of, 180, 181, 216; 
neat of, 180. 
Win Alexander, 22, 65, 124, 203, 
a eee false, 54. 
Weodstndk ei Aretomys monax), 177, 
Woodpecker, downy (Dryobates 
pubescens), drumming of, 9; nest 
of, 96, 97. 
Woodpecker, golden-winged, or 
high-hole, or flicker, or yarup, or 
yellow-hammer (Colaptes aura- 
tus), arrival of a3 habits of, 9, 10 ; 
notes of, 7, 9, 1 0, 1 
Woodpecker, red-headed (Melaner- 
233 
pes erythrocephalus), 154; notes 
of, 154; nest of, 95. 
Woodpecker, red-shafted, or red- 
a flicker (Colaptes cafer), 
7. 
Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or yel- 
low-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapi- 
cus varius), waiting on its young, 
Pik 98; 99-101, 182; nest of, 97- 
Woorlpeckers, nests of, 96, 103; 
Seong of, 181, 182; hoppers, 
Wood: wegtal. See Thrush, golden- 
crowned. 
Wren, Carolina (Thryothorus ludo- 
vicianus), 136, 213. 
Wren, house (Zroglodytes aédon), 
difficulty with a pair of bluebirds, 
195-198, 213; notes of, 196-198; 
nest 106, 107. 
Wren, ruby-crowned. See Kinglet, 
ruby-crowned. 
Wren, winter (Troglodytes hiema- 
lis), 2, 18; habits of, 43, 44; 213; 
notes of, 18, 43, 44, 177, 213. 
Wrens, characteristics of the fam- 
ily, and of certain species, 213. 
Yarup. See Woodpecker, golden- 
winged. 
Yellow-hammer. 
golden-winged. 
Yellow-throat, Maryland (Geothly- 
pis trichas), 19, 61, 160, 206; 
notes of, 61. 
See Woodpecker, 
