INDEX 
Mimicry, 124. 
Mind, the primal, 125-141; 
reality of, 135, 136. 
Miracles, 162. 
Mockingbird, Western, habits, 
120; song, 120, 121. 
Mockingbirds, Eastern and 
Antillean, song, 120, 121. 
Monera, 172, 173, 175. 
Mt. San Antonio, 118, 119. 
Mouse, nest of, 44, 45. 
Mouse-ear. See Everlasting. 
Natural selection, inadequacy, 
131, 138, 218, 262-288, 291- 
293; Weismann’s concep- 
tion of, 262-264; fundamen- 
tally unlike artificial selec- 
tion, 271-274. 
Nehrling, Henry, 114. 
Oak-apples, 122. 
Orchard, natural history in, 1- 
7 
Oriole, Baltimore, 6. 
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, on 
adaptation, 286, 308. 
Partridge. See Grouse, ruffed. 
Perfumes, of May, 112. 
Petrified forests, 110. 
Pheebe, fly-catching, 7; per- 
sistent nest-builders, 70, 71; 
nesting-sites, 117. 
Pigeon, passenger, 97. 
Pika, or coney, 33. 
Plants, mating, 77, 78; wisdom 
in, 87-89. 
Plasmogen, 180. 
Plover, golden, 71. 
Plover, killdee or killdeer, 104. 
Plutarch, questions discussed 
by, 294. 
Polygala, fringed, 122, 123. 
Pope, Alexander, quoted, 134. 
Porcupine, 16. 
Poulton, Edward Bagnall, dis- 
putes Bergson’s doctrine of 
instinct, 201. 
Proof, the two kinds of, 302. 
Quack-grass, 88. 
Quail, nest, 103. 
Quartz, pebbles, 
tains, 52 
52; moun- 
Rabbit, fear, 16; arts of con- 
cealment, 102, 103; forms, 
102, 103. 
Raccoon, a starving, 95. 
Redstart, showing off plumage, 
5, 6. 
Red-thorn, and cattle, 
260. 
Reproductive instinct, the mas- 
ter instinct, 65-81; a kind of 
madness, 66-68; and the his- 
tory of man, 72; and dancing, 
72; and death, 73, 74. 
Robin, 5, 83; starving to death 
' in March, 94, 95. 
Rocks, attraction of, 40-46; 
the final source of all, 40; 
motion of, 42, 43; arrange- 
ment in the Catskills, 46-51; 
conglomerate, 48-53; two 
classes, boulders and place 
rocks, 53-58; stratified rocks, 
59-64. 
Rousseau, John James, quoted, 
229. 
Royce, Josiah, his ‘Spirit of 
Modern Philosophy’’ quoted, 
211. 
258- 
Sapsucker, yellow-bellied, sap- 
sucking habits, 2-4. 
Science, interpretation of life, 
176, 177; compared and con- 
trasted with literature, 176— 
181; the antithesis of poetry, 
177; antipathetictoliterature, 
183, 184, 194; literary treat- 
ment of, 184-189; dehuman- 
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