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INDEX 



Robin, American {Merula migrato- 

 ria), 72; April's bird, 75, 76; as 

 warrior and lover, 76 ; 77 ; song 

 of, 37 ; nest of, 72, 76. 



Romans, the first to separate beauty 

 from use, 149. 



Sandpiper, spotted, or "tip-up" 



{Aciiiis macularia), 34. 

 Sandpiper, The, by Celia Thaxter, 



33-35. 

 Sandpipers, characteristics of, 34. 

 Sappho, 5. 

 Science, contrasted with art, 157 ; 



in poetry, 215-224. 

 Scott, Sir Walter, 143, 162, 201. 

 Selection, sexual, theory of, 18. 

 Shakespeare, 6 ; quotations from, 



16, 25, 26, 28 ; 107, 109, 153, 155, 



156, 161, 169 ; Emerson's opinion 



of, 171, 174 ; 172, 175, 214. 

 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 3; his To a 



Skylark, 13, 14. 

 Skunk {Mephitis mephitica), 40. 

 Skylark, 3 ; in English poetry, 12- 



16, 26, 27 ; habits and aong of, 12, 



13, 16, 90, 91 ; as a mimic, 90. 

 Snake, black, 40. 

 Snake, garter, 40, 41. 

 Snakes, 104. 

 Snow, deadening influence of, 55, 



56 ; only a thin veil, 62, 63. 

 Socrates, 5. 



Solomon, quotation from, 110. 

 Sparrow, social or chipping (Spi- 



zella soGialis), nest of, 72. 

 Sparrow, song {Melospiza fasdata), 



George Parsons Lathrop's poem 



on, 35, 36 ; song of, 86, 87 ; nest of, 



86, 87. 

 Sparrow, tree or Canada {Spisella 



Tnoniicola), 83. 

 Sparrow, vesper {PoociMes grami- 



tieus), aong of, 86. 

 Sparrow, white-crowned {Zonotri- 



ckia leucophrys), appearance and 



habits of, 85 ; song of, 85, 86. 

 Sparrow, white-throated {Zonoiri- 



chia albicollis), song of, 85, 86. 

 Sparrow, characteristics of, 86, 87. 

 Spenser, 109. 

 Spring, the coming of, 78-80 ; in 



poetry, 107-113 ; the charms of, 



109, 110. 

 Spring runs, in April, 96. 

 Steamer, moving a sunken, 53, 54. 

 Strawberry, 95. 

 Sugar-berry, 81, 82. 

 Swallow, the, a favorite bird with 



Tennyson, 27 ; 36, 95, 104. 



Swallow, bam {Chelidon erythro- 



gaster), 75 ; nest of, 91. 

 Swallow, chimney, or chimney 



swift {Chcetura pelagica), 72, 75 ; 



a flock retiring for the night, 92 ; 



nest of, 91. 

 Swallow, cliff (Petroehelidon luni- 



frons), not-es of, 73 ; nest of, 73. 

 Swift, chimney. See Swallow, 



chimney. 



Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, on Ba- 

 con, 167, 168. 



Tennyson, Alfred, quotations from, 

 26, 27, 107, 108, 221, 222 ; a care- 

 ful olaserver, 27; an autumnal 

 poet, 112 ; 122, 153, 156 ; Emer- 

 son's opinion of, 174 ; science in 

 his poems, 221, 222. 



Thaxter, Celia, her Sandpiper, 33- 

 35. 



Thomson, James, 109. 



Thoreau, Henry D. , 37 ; his spirit- 

 ual kinship with Charles Lamb, 

 48, 49 ; 145 ; his Maine Woods, 

 146 ; on Walt Whitman, 189. 



Thrasher, brown, or long-tailed 

 thrush {Sarporhynckus rufus), 

 98, 99 ; the great American chip- 

 per, 98 ; song of, 37, 98. 



Thrush, golden-crowned. See Oven- 

 bird. 



Thrush, hermit {Turdus aonaXaseh- 

 kcB pallasii), in Walt Whitman's 

 President Lincoln'' s Burial HyTrm, 

 36, 37 ; 72 ; song of, 36. 



Thrush, wood {Turdus musielinus), 

 95 ; song of, 36, 88. 



Tip-up. See Sandpiper, spotted. 



Titlark. See Pipit, American. 



Towhee. See Chewink. 



Trowbridge, John T., his poem on 

 the wood pewee quoted, 29-31 ; 

 122. 



TurgeniefE, 113, 149. 



Turner, J. M. W., anecdote of, 14. 



Turtles, 105. 



Warbler, pine (Dendroica vigorsii), 



74. 

 Washington, D. C, the Arcadian 



age at, 130. 

 Water-thrush, 16. 

 Weather, man's S3Tnpathy with, 55, 



56. 

 Whip-poor-will {AntrostowAis vocif- 



ej~tis), 95. 

 White, a negative color, 56. 

 Whitman, Walt, quotations from, 



9-12, 149, 191, 192, 195, 198, 199, 



