INDEX 
Coyote, or prairie wolf, 82, 83, 189. 
Crab, hermit, 155. 
Crabs, defensive instinct in, 169, 
170. 
Crossbills (Loxia sp.), feeding on 
young peaches, 261. 
Crow, American (Corvus brachy- 
rhynchos), winter quarters of, 
50; the “ Hermit’s ” story of a 
crow, 93; nature of his intelli- 
gence, 136, 137; notes of, 188, 268; 
story of a court of justice, 198, 
199; maltreating a tame crow, 
199; cunning of, 204; a misinter- 
preted incident, 233, 234; feed- 
ing, 265, 266; suspiciousness of, 
266; flocking of, 266, 267; mean- 
ing of calls of, 268; disposition 
of, 268; in Bermuda, 268; lines 
on, 268. 
Crow, white-necked African, 135, 
Crows and shell-fish, 2. 
Cuckoos, 249; eating birds’ eggs, 
264; killed by robins, 264. 
Darwin, Charles, 65, 67, 73, 75, 76, 
79, 82, 83, 87, 127, 136, 149, 177, 198. 
December, the month when Na- | 
ture closes her doors, 47. 
Deer, 84, 85, 185. 
Dipper. See Water ouzel. 
Dogs, imitativeness of, 66; show 
gleams of reason, 76; 85,88; feel- 
ings of shame, guilt, and re- 
venge ascribed to, 144, 145; car- 
tying a stick through a fence, 
164-166; language of, 188; Mae- 
terlinck on, 192,193; John Muir’s 
story of a dog, 193,194; Egerton 
Young’s book about, 194; hiding 
a bone, 205; companionableness 
of, 205, 206; 211, 221; rational in- 
telligence in, 223-225; partake of 
the master’s nature, 224; story 
of a pointer, 224, 295, 
Dove, turtle, ov mourning dove 
(Zenaidura macroura), occu- 
pying a robin’s nest, 7. 
Duck. See Mallard. 
Duck, eider. See American eider. 
Duck, wild, wounded, 213. 
Duck, wood (Aix sponsa), nest, 
eggs, and young of, 21-23. 
Eagle, 103. 
Eagle, bald (Haliwetus leucoceph- 
alus), 72, 213. 
Ears, movements of, 95. 
Eider, American (Somateria dres- 
seri), killing mussels, 180-182. 
Elephants, 76; protecting them- 
selves from flies, 138; an incred- 
ible story, 145, 146. 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24; his 
lines on the sparrow’s song, 32, 
102. 
Evolution, 170, 171. 
Fabre, the French naturalist, 158. 
Farm, the author’s, 101. 
Fear, instinctive, 74-76; use of, 
89; indiscriminating, 89; panics, 
90. 
Finch, purple (Carpodacus pur- 
pureus), song flight of, 44; song 
of, 44. 
Fish and glass, 127. 
Flocks, communication in, 96-98. 
Fly, mimicking the honey-bee, 
250. 
Flycatcher, great crested (Myiar- 
chus crinitus), nesting-habits of, 
17-19. 
Forest and Stream, 69, 93. 
Fox, capturing a rabbit, 8; 72; 
poisoning stories of, 105; stories 
of crab-catching, 106, 107; intel- 
ligence of, 141, 142; misinter- 
preted stories of, 199; and dead- 
fall, 222, 223; cunning of, 223. 
Frog, wood, hibernation of, 48. 
Frogs, hibernation of, 49. 
Froude, 2. 
Fruits, colors of, 251-254. 
Golden-eye (Clangula clangula 
americana), young leaving 
nest, 22. 
Goldfinch (Astragalinus tristis), 
flight song of, 43, 44; other notes 
of, 44; musical festivals of, 104. 
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