INDEX 



239 



Infinite, the, 44. 

 Ingelow, Jean, 121. 



Jefferson, Thomas, his expeiience 



with the chewink, 99, 100. 

 Jonson, Ben, 5. 



Keatfl, John, 3, 7. 



Kingbird {Tytannus iyrarmus)^ 29. 



Eingsley, Charles, 2. 



Lamb, Charles, his spiritual kin- 

 ship with Thoreau, 48, 49. 



Lark. See Skylark. 



Lark, shore or horned {Otocoris al- 

 pestris), 16. 



Lathrop, George Parsons, his poem. 

 The Sparrow^ 35, 36. 



Lincoln, Abraham, 145, 146. 



Literature, American, decline of 

 unctuous and sympathetic humor 

 in, 49-51 ; lack of strength and 

 originality in, 144-146. 



Lizard, 40. 



Locust, 5. 



Logan, John, his poem, To the 

 Cuckoo, 22, 23. 



Loon (Urinaior imher), habits of, 

 58-60 ; notes of, 4, 33, 58, 60. 



Lowell, James Russell, quotation 

 from, 36. 



Lyly, John, quotations from, 16, 23. 



Macaulay, Thomas Bablngton, 144. 



Man, hia relation to Nature, 41-44 ; 

 his various attitudes towards Na- 

 ture, 47, 48 ; his sympathy with 

 the weather, 55, 56 ; in Walt Whit- 

 man's poetry, 201-207, 213-215; 

 and science, 220. 



Manliness more essential than gen- 

 ius and culture, 139-149. 



Martial, 6. 



Meadowlark (Siumella magna), ap- 

 pearance and habits of, 101, 102 ; 

 notes of, 38, 91, 101, 102. 



Michael Angelo, 161. 



Milton, John, quotation from, 6, 

 153, 171. 



Mockingbird (Mimus polygloitos), 

 90 j song of, 7, 8 ; in poetry, 8-12. 



Mowing-machine, poetry of the, 54, 

 55. 



Nature, the balance of, 39, 40 ; im- 

 partiality of, 41 ; selfishness of, 42 ; 

 man's relation to, 41-44 ; man's 

 various attitudes towards, 47, 48 ; 

 man's sympathy with her moods, 

 55, 56 ; the boy's attitude to- 



wards, 64, 65 ; the beauty of, 150, 

 151 ; 154 ; underlying power of, 

 153 ; the poetical interpretation 

 of, 154 ; the two types in, 155 ; 

 perpetual transition, 156. 

 Nightingale, 3, 5 ; in English poetry, 

 6, 7, 26 ; color, habits, and song 

 of, 7. 



Odors of April, 94. 



Oriole, Baltimore {Icterus galbula). 



73, 74. 

 Onuthologiats, poets in deed if not 



in word, 1. 

 Oven - bird or golden - cronwed 



thrush (SeiuTUs auroeapillus), 



song of, 16. 

 Owl, the, celebrated by the poeta, 



24, 26 ; habits of, 25 ; 39. 

 Ox, the, 119, 120. 



Partridge. See Grouse, ruffed. 



Pewee, wood {Coniopus vireris), ap- 

 pearance and habits of, 28 ; notes 

 of, 28, 29. 



Phaedrus, 5. 



Phoebe-bird (Sayornis phcBde), 29; 

 nest of, 72. 



Pigeon, passenger {Ectopistes mU 

 gratorius), 75 ; migrations of, 77, 

 78 ; the last flight in the valley of 

 the Hudson, 78 ; notes of, 77. 



Pipit, American, or titlark {An- 

 ihuspensilvanicus), 16. 



Pipit, Sprague's {AntTms spragueii), 

 17. 



Poetry, lack of power in current, 

 152 ; vital fluid necessary to, 155, 

 156 ; form in, 194-196 ; science in, 

 215-224. 



Poets, inspired and taught by the 

 birds, 1-3 ; the ancient poets and 

 the birds, 3, 4; the Greek poets 

 and the music of nature, 5, 6 ; 

 and the nightingale, 6, 7 ; and the 

 mockingbird, 8-12 ; and the sky- 

 lark, 12-16 ; and the bobolink, 17, 

 19-21 ; and the cuckoo, 21-24 ; 

 and the owl, 24-26 ; their know- 

 ledge of Nature, 48 ; ancient and 

 modem, 139-141 ; Emerson on, 

 171, 174. 



Pope, Alexander, 109. 



Quail, or bob-white (Colinus'vir' 

 gmianus), 81. 



Railroad, the, an heroic element of 



the landscape, 52, 53. 

 Redpoll {Aca7iihis linaria\ 83. 



