INDEX 



Coyote, or prairie wolf, 82, 83, 189. 



Crab, liermit, 155. 



Crabs, defensive instinct in, 169, 

 170. 



Crossbills (^Looda sp.), feeding on 

 young peacbes, 261. 



Crow, American ( Cormis brachy- 

 rhynchos), winter quarters of, 

 50; tbe "Hermit's " story of a 

 crow, 93; nature of bis intelli- 

 gence, 136, 137 ; notes of, 188, 268 ; 

 story of a court of justice, 198, 

 199; maltreating a tame crow, 

 199; cunning of, 204; a misinter- 

 preted incident, 233, 234 ; feed- 

 ing, 265, 266; suspiciousness of, 

 266; flocking of, 266, 267; mean- 

 ing of calls of, 268 ; disposition 

 of, 268; in Bermuda, 268; lines 

 on, 268. 



Crow, wbite-necked African, 135, 

 136. 



Crows and sbell-fisb, 2. 



Cuckoos, 249 ; eating birds' eggs, 

 264; killed by robins, 264. 



Darwin, Charles, 65, 67, 73, 75, 76, 

 79, 82, 83, 87, 127, 136, 149, 177, 198. 



December, the month when Na- 

 ture closes her doors, 47. 



Deer, 84, 85, 185. 



Dipper. See Water ouzel. 



Dogs, imitativeness of, 66; show 

 gleams of reason, 76; 85, 88 ; feel- 

 ings of shame, guilt, and re- 

 venge ascribed to, 144, 145 ; car- 

 rying a stick through a fence, 

 164^166; language of, 188; Mae- 

 terlinck on, 192, 193 ; John Muir's 

 story of a dog, 193, 194; Egerton 

 Young's book about, 194 ; hiding 

 a bone, 205 ; companionableness 

 of, 205, 206; 211, 221; rational in- 

 telligence in, 223-225 ; partake of 

 the master's nature, 224; story 

 of a pointer, 224, 225. 



Dove, turtle, or mourning dove 

 l^Zenaidura macroura), occu- 

 pying a robin's nest, 7. 



Duck. 566 Mallard. 



Duck, eider. 566 American eider. 



Duck, wild, wounded, 213. 

 Duck, wood {Aix sponsa), nest, 

 eggs, and young of, 21-23. 



Eagle, 103. 



Eagle, bald {HaZiceetus leueoceph- 

 alus), 72, 213. 



Ears, movements of, 95. 



Eider, American {Somateria dreS' 

 seri), killing mussels, 180-182. 



Elephants, 76 ; protecting them- 

 selves from llies, 138; an incred- 

 ible story, 145, 146. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24 ; his 

 lines on the sparrow's song, 32, 

 102. 



Evolution, 170, 171. 



Fabre, the French naturalist, 158. 



Farm, the author's, 101. 



Fear, Instinetive, 74-76; use of, 

 89; indiscriminating, 89; panics, 

 90. 



Finch, purple {Carpodacus pur- 

 pureus), song flight of, 44; song 

 of, 44. 



Fish and glass, 127. 



Flocks, communication in, 96-98. 



Fly, mimicking the honey-ljee, 

 250. 



Flycatcher, great crested (Myiar- 

 chus erimt«5), nesting-habits of, 

 17-19. 



Forest aiid Stream, 69, 93. 



Fox, capturing a rabbit, 8; 72; 

 poisoning stories of, 105 ; stories 

 of crab-catching, 106, 107 ; intel- 

 ligence of, 141, 142; misinter- 

 preted stories of, 199; and dead- 

 fall, 222, 223; Cunning of, 223. 



Frog, wood, hibernation of, 48. 



Progs, hibernation of, 49. 



Froude, 2. 



Fruits, colors of, 251-254. 



Golden-eye {Clangula elangvZa 

 americana), young leaving 

 nest, 22. 



G-oldfinch {Astragalin'us tristis\ 

 flight song of, 43, 44; other notes 

 of, 44; musical festivals of, 104. 



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