INDEX 



Wasps, solitary, ways of, 116-118; 

 instinct in, 1£8, 1S9; intelligence 

 of, 164. 



Wasps, stinging instinct in sting- 

 less, 169, 170. 



Waxwlng, cedar. See Cedar-bird. 



Weasel, rescuing y«ung, 24. 



White, Gilbert, on the swallow's 

 nest-building, 167, 168; 203; his 

 account of his old tortoise, 207. 



Whitman, Walt, quoted, 206. 



Wolf, prairie. See Coyote. 



Wolves, 66. 



Wood-borers, 49, 50, 



Woodchuck, 72. 



Woodcock {PhUohela minor), 

 song and song flight of, 42, 43. 



Woodpecker, downy (Dryobates 



pubescent meclicmia), dispose 

 sessed by flying-squirrels, 20; 

 trying to evict a hairy wood- 

 pecker, 21. 



Woodpecker, hairy i,Dry6batea 

 mllosus\ and downy woodpeck- 

 er, 21. 



Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or 

 yellow-bellied sapsucker (S^lvy- 

 rapicus varius\ 91. 



Wren, European, nest of, 138, 

 139. 



Wren, house (Troglodytes aSdon), 

 nesting-materials of, 19; young 

 of, 162; handling twigs, 166. 



Young, Egerton, his My Doga of 

 the Northland, 191. 



