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INDEX 



20; perfumed {Osmoderma scabei), 

 133 ; blue oil, 239. 



Bellworts, 44. 



Bigelow, Hosea, quoted, 224. 



Billings, Josh, quoted, 92, 124. 

 -Birds' - nests, materials of: — milk- 

 weed bark, toad-skins, and snake- 

 skins, 171, 172 ; twine and horse- 

 hair, caterpillar-skins, 172 ; wool, 

 dandelion seeds, 173; gray lichens 

 and seeds, 177. 



Black-paper hornet, his bad reputa- 

 tion, 94 ; a tempting target ; re- 

 sults of an attack on his house, 

 96 ; making themselves promiscu- 

 ous ; the stoical bachelor 97 ; his 

 discomfiture, 98 ; antics explained ; 

 his hiding - place revealed, 100 ; 

 favorite hunting-ground, loi ; oc- 

 casional big game ; life of; manner 

 of laying eggs; several broods in a 

 season, 102 ; number of tiers in a. 

 nest ; winter the best time to ex- 

 amine nests, 103. 



Black snake, 85. 



Blossom etiquette, 221, 222. 



Blue carnation, 46. 



Blue dahlia, 45. 



Blue oil beetle, 239. 



Blue pansies, 46. 



Blue rose, 45, 46, 



Blue tulip, 45. 



Bluets, Hous tonia , 24, 208, 

 209. 



Boletus, 142. 



Bridge-building spiders, 104. 



Brooklyn Bridge, 104 ; ' ' carrier " 

 or " traveller " should have been 

 called "spider," 105; Engineer 

 Farrington crossing, no. 

 -Brown screech-owl, 151. 



Browning, Robert, quoted, 26. 



" Bull's-eye " caterpillar, 156. 



Bumble-bee, 6, 91. 



Butterflies asleep at night, 168. 



Butterflies: — Idalia (Argynnis ida- 

 lia)^ Archippus (JDanais archip- 

 pus), yellow swallow-tails (^Papilio 

 turiius), 131 ; Red Admiral ( Va- 

 nessa Atalanta), 155, 158, 161 ; 

 "comma" [Vanessa coTnnia), 156, 

 l6r, 170; Atalanta (Ci'kMm Ata- 

 lanta), 158; semicolon (Vanessa 

 interrogationis), 161. 



Canterbury bells, 42. 



Cardanus quoted, 93. 



Careless observation of nature, 185, 

 1 86, 



Carnation, blue, 46, 



Catbrier, 188. 



Caterpillars : — woolly - bear (Arcti- 

 ada), 148; "bull's-eye"' (Satiir- 

 nia lo), 156 ; sphinx (jChcerocampa 

 panipenatrix, 241. 



Cecropia, 156. 



Chinese pink, 73. 



Chipmonk, 153. 



Chrysalids, 161. 



Chrysanthemum, 86, 127. 



Cicada, 87, 246 ; his manner of feed- 

 ing ; how he diflfers from the grass- 

 hopper ; the secret of his music, 

 250 ; his last song ; borne off by 

 his captor, 251 ; living food, 254; 

 suspended animation, 255. 



Clintonia, 239. 



Clothes moth (^Tineidd), 170. 



Clover ( Tnfolium ), four - leaved, 

 215; nine-leaved, found in groups, 



216 ; possibilities of cultivation, 



217 ; an exceptional find, 218, 



