INDEX 



241 



Toad, 144,147, USD., 174. 5eeTree. 



toad. 

 Toad-flax, 192, 195, 202, 209, 210. 

 Tobacco, 203. 

 Tortoise, 117. 

 Towhee. See Chewink. 

 Tree-crickets, 135, 136. 

 Tree-toad, 76, 145-150. 

 Trout, brook, their fondness for 



springs, 38, 39, 42, 44, 96 ; caught 



with tickling, 167. 

 Trout-fishing, 23, 29. 

 Trowbridge, John T., his natural 



history, 88, 89 ; quotations from, 



89. 

 Turkey, wild (Meleagris gallopavo). 



225, 226, 228, 229. 

 Turtle, 117. 

 Turtle-head, 92. 

 Twin-flower. See Linn^a. 

 Two-teeth. See Bidens. 



Velvet-leaf, ^ee Abutilon. 



Yenus's looking-glass, 208. 



Vervain, 208. 



Vetch, or tare, 206. 



Violet, in poetry, 85. 



Violet, Canada, 93, 188 ; its fra- 

 grance, 189, 190 ; 191. 



Violet, common blue, 85, 185, 191. 



Violet, English, 85, 185. 



Violet, white, 85, 93, 188, 191. 



Violet, yellow, 92-94. 



Vireo, in poetry, 110. 



Virgil, on honey-bees, 60, 75-77; 

 quotations from, 97, 99, 200. 



"Walking, in England, 176-178 ; a 



simple and natural pastime, 182, 



183. 

 "Warbler, yellow-rumped, or myrtle 



{Dendroica coronata), 226, 

 "Wasp, sand. See Hornet, sand. 

 Water-lily. See Pond-lily. 

 Waxwing, cedar. See Cedar-bird. 

 Weasel, 168. 

 Weebutook River, 44. 

 Weeds, 191 ; their devotion to 



man, 193 ; the gardener and the 



farmer the best friends of, 193, 

 194 ; Nature's makeshift, 194^ 

 196; great travelers, 196-199; 

 their abundance in America, 199, 

 200 ; native and foreign, 200-207 ; 

 the growth of, 207 ; escaped from 

 cultivation, 207 ; beautiful, 207- 

 209 ; uses of various, 209, 210 ; less 

 persistent and universal than 

 grass, 210 ; virtues of, 210. 



Well of St. Winifred, 42. 



Wheat, winter, 94, 95. 



Whip-poor-will {Antroatomus vod- 

 fertis), Bong of, 15. 



Whiteweed. See Fleabane. 



Whitman, Walt, a close student of 

 American nature, 107-109 ; quo- 

 tations from, 107, 108. 



Whittier, John Oreenleaf, as a ^oet 

 of nature, 99-101 ; quotations 

 from, 99-101, 201. 



Winchester, Va., 41. 



Wintergreen, false, or pyrola, 188, 



Wintergreen, spotted, 188. 



Witch-hazel, 93. 



Woodchuck {Arctomys monax\ 

 158-163. 



Wood-frog, 144. 



Woodpecker, in poetry, 105, 106. 



Woodpecker, downy {Dryobates pu- 

 bescens), 220. 



Woodpecker, golden-winged. See 

 High-hole. 



Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or yel- 

 low-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapi- 

 cus varius)j drumming of, 106. 



Wood-pigeona, 88. 



Wood-sorrel, common, 206. 



Wood-sorrel, yellow, 206. 



Wordsworth, William, quotations 

 from, 113, 186. 



Wren, Carohna ( Thryothorus ludo- 

 vicianus), notes of, 233. 



Wren, house {Troglodytes a'edon), 

 notes of, 16 ; nest of, 155. 



Yarrow, 202. 

 Yellow-jacket, 117. 

 Yew, American, 81. 



