INDEX 
Language, 2 necessity to thinking, 
187, 188. 
Lark. See Skylark. 
Lark, prairie horned (Otocoris 
alpestris praticola), spreading 
of, 36, 37; song and song flight 
of, 37, 38; killed by the locomo- 
tive, 38. 
Leaves, persistent and deciduous, 
Lion, Bostock on the training of, 
239-241. 
Loco-weed, 83. 
Locusts, 2. 
Loon (Gavia timber), 180, 184; 
under ice, 235, 236. 
Lophius piscatorius, 107. 
Lubbock, Sir John, on recognition 
among bees and ants, 200. 
Lynx, Canada, incredible story of, 
183, 184. 
Maeterlinck, Maurice, on the bee, 
15; on the dog, 192, 193; his Life 
of the Bee, 201. 
Mallard, domestic, finding its way 
home, 53-57. 
Man, progress of, 26, 27; the line 
that divides him from the lower 
orders, 80, 81; animal origin of, 
229, 230; instinct in, 255; learn- 
ing through practice, 256. 
Martin, Mrs. Annie, her story of a 
crow, 135, 136. 
Meadowlark (Sturnella magna), 
song of, 34; flight song of, 43; 
232, 233. 
Meadowlark, Western (Sturnella 
magna neglecta), song of, 103, 
Mice and traps, 23, 24. 
Michelet, 147. 
Mimicry, 248-250. 
Mongoose, 72. 
Monkeys, capable of the simpler 
forms of reason, 127, 
Moose, a habit of, 142. 
Moral code, evolution of, 23. 
Morgan, C. Lloyd, 143, 149; his 
oe with his dog, 164, 
65. 
Moth, hummingbird, 249, 250. 
Mouse, white-footed, or deer 
mouse, an incident, 163, 164. 
Muir, John, his story of his dog 
Stickeen, 193, 194. 
Mullet, 96. 
Mushrooms, animals eating, 83. 
Muskrat, 211, 
Mussels, ducks drowning, 180-182. 
My Dogs of the Northland, by 
Egerton Young, 194. 
“My friend and neighbor through 
the year,” 268. 
Natural history romancers, influ- 
ence of, 13, 14; methods of, 16, 
17. 
Nature, an endless experimenter, 
24, 139; prodigality of, 27; like a 
hunter, 27; bound to hit the 
mark, 28; the tendency to senti- 
mentalize, 108 ; reaches her ends 
by devious paths, 110; the think- 
ing of, 152; literary treatment 
of, 191-208; the interpretation 
of, 196-201, 203-205 ; wisdom of, 
220. 
Newts, migrations of, 219. 
Nightingale, carrying nest, 15, 16; 
song of, 35; song of a caged 
bird, 35; a song contest, 115. 
North American Review, an arti- 
cle in the, 61. 
Nuthatch, 162. 
Nuts, protective colors of, 251, 252. 
Observing, rarity of accurate, 107, 
, 238. 
Olaus, his fox and crab story, 106. 
Oriole, Baltimore (Icterus gal- 
bula),a published account of a 
nest, 61-63; Scott’s experiment 
with young, 68; its nesta marvel 
of blind skill, 110; its use of 
strings in nest-building, 247; an 
incredible story of, 248; varia- 
bility of, 259, 260; song of, 259, 
260; destructive in vineyards, 
261. 
Oriole, orchard (Icterus spurius), 
260. 
Osprey, 137. See also Fish hawk. 
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