330 



INDEX 



Moose, 221, 261 ; a cow-moose, 



262-63 

 Moosebirds, 262 

 Morcross, 257, 271 

 Mosquitoes, 54, 241, 243, 316, 



319 

 Mountain ponies, 179, 181, 183 

 Mules, 181, 197 

 Muskalunge, 245 

 Music-rat, 168, 288 ; trap for, 



299-300 ; skin, 302 



" Nest containing eggs," 8 



Nest, the red-eyed vireo's, 

 69-70, 131-32 ; the oven- 

 bird's, 71-72 ; the chicka- 

 dee's, 99 ; the worm-eat- 

 ing warbler's, 117-18 ; the 

 American woodcock's, 139 

 -43 ; the whistling swan's, 

 159-60 



Netting for salmon, 227, 232-33 



New Brunswick, sea-trout of, 

 211-22 



Newfoundland, the caribou 

 migration, 27-45 ; fishing 

 season in, 225-33, 247-48 ; 

 to get at, 251-52 ; camping 

 out in, 253 



New York, 66, 90, 141, 288 



Niagara Falls, 159 



Nissuee, 199 



North Sydney, 226 



" No-see-ems," 58 



O'Connor, Dennis, story of 



'possums, 170-73 

 Opossum, the, hair of, in 

 chickadee's nests, 99 and 

 note ; habits, 167, 288 ; a 

 story of two 'possums, 167- 

 73 

 Oregon, 185 ; trout, 200 

 " O'Shaughnessy " hook, 200 

 Otter, value of skin, 288, 302 ; 



trap for, 300 

 Oven bird, the, 71-72 



Owl, 277, 280 ; habits, 167 

 Oyster, 322 



Pack baskets, 310 



Palmetto, 321 



Palmetto " islands," 324 



Paper hornet, nest of, 70 



Partridge berry, 202 



Passaic River, 168 



Passamagamet carry, 263, 265 



Passamagamet Lake, 259 



" Patridge," 262 



Penobscot River, 258 



Pig, wild, 323 



Pine-land, Florida, 324-25 



Pintail, 149 



Pitcher plant, 261 



Placentia River, 232 



Plate-holders, 21-22 



Plates, isochromatic, 141-42 



Plover, 322 



Pockwockomus carry, 265 



Porcupine, the Canadian, 49 ; 

 story of a porcupine hunt, 

 49-60 ; habits, 50-51, 293 



Port-aux-Basques, 226 



Prairie in Florida, 323 



Pummadumcook Lake, 257, 

 258, 271 



Pump gun, 162 



Quail, 277, 322 



Rabbits, 221-22, 288-90, 292 

 Rapids, poling through the, 



263-06 

 Rattlesnakes, 319 

 Red-eyed vireo, 09-71, 101, 104 

 Redwood, 180 ; giant forests, 



192-93 

 Reels, for trout fishing, 198 ; 



for salmon fishing, 250-51 

 Reflex camera, 21 

 Restigouche River, 246 

 Rhododendron, 279 

 Rifle shooting, 161 

 Robins, 270,^325 



