INDEX 
Ostrich, 134, 135. 
Ousel, water, or dipper, 73. 
Oven-bird (Seiurus aurocapillus), 
walk of, 40; ordinary song of, 
40,41; flight song of, 41, 42. 
Peacock, strutting before a crow, 
217. 
Peckham, George W. and Eliza- 
beth G., their work on the soli- 
tary wasps, 116. 
Pelicans, driving fish, 216. 
Phebe-bird (Sayornis phebe), 
nesting-habits of, 5, 157, 158 ; 
nest-building of, 112; cowbird’s 
egg in nest of, 157; an instance 
of stupidity, 168, 169. 
Pigeon, passenger, or wild pigeon 
(Ectopistes migratorius), flocks 
of, 96, 97. 
Pike, 127. 
Plants, intelligence of, 128, 129. 
Plover, ring, rejecting counter- 
feit eggs, 227, 228. 
Poison, fear of, 140. 
Poisoning among animals, 105, 106. 
Porcupine, its lack of wit, 3; 186; 
an encounter with a, 242-244; 
easily killed, 244; stories of roll- 
ing into a ball, 244, 245; C. G. D. 
Roberts on, 245, 246. 
Prairie-dogs, their fear of weeds 
and grass, 189. 
Protective coloration, 139, 140. 
Quail, or bob-white (Colinus vir- 
ginianus), nests of, 6. 
Rabbit, nest of, 7; intelligence of, 
7; pursued by a mink or weasel, 
7, 8; pursued by a fox, 8; imi- 
tating a monkey, 66. 
Rabbit, jack, 184; running in a 
furrow, 213. 
Raccoon, washing food, 3; 134. 
Rats, 72, 73, 106, 184, 185. 
“Real and Sham Natural His- 
tory,” the author’s article, v, vi. 
Reason, an artificial light, 212. 
Roberts, Charles G. D., on the por- 
cupine, 245, 246. 
Robin (Merula migratoria), nests 
of, 4, 5, 169, 264, 265; unusual 
songs of, 45, 68; 154, 155; nesting 
on turn-table, 169; and string, 
246, 247; variability of nesting- 
habits of, 258, 259; closely asso- 
ciated with country life, 261, 
262; boring for grubs, 262, 263; 
pugnacity of, 263; at war with 
blue jays, crow blackbirds, and 
cuckoos, 263, 264; a hustler, 264, 
265. 
Romanes, G. J., 15, 16, 73, 106, 142; 
untrustworthiness of his Ani- 
mal Intelligence, 147, 148. 
Roosevelt, Theodore, his The Wil- 
derness Hunter, 72,142; quoted 
on teaching among animals, 84- 
86; 88, 103; quoted on the moose, 
142; 149; his story of a horse, 
235. 
Rooster, “ teaching ” a young one, 
94; calling a hen, 190. 
Ruskin, John, 197. 
St. John, Charles, 76; his story of 
a fox, 142; 149. 
Sapsucker, yellow-bellied. 
Yellow-bellied woodpecker. 
Scallops, 129, 130. 
Schoolchildren, letters from, 1. 
“ School of the woods,”’ the, 99. 
Scott, W. E. D., 68. 
Selous, Edmund, on a song con- 
test between nightingales, 115. 
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 184, 203. 
Sexual selection, 116. 
Sharp, Dallas Lore, on the crested 
flycatcher, 18. 
Shrike (Lanius sp.), assisting 
wounded mate, 24; 250. 
Skunk, dull wits of, 4; killing a 
maimed one, 203. 
Skunk-cabbage, 52. 
Skylark, song of, 32-34, 37; in 
America, 33, 34; Scotchman and, 
33; Irishman and, 34; wooing a 
vesper sparrow, 40; a caged, 69. 
Snake, black, 16. 
Snakes, and the power of fasci- 
nation, 16. 
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