INDEX 



America, the yacht, 164 note. 

 Apple tree, its welcome to these 



shores, 431, 432. 

 Audubon, John James, quoted and 



cited, 183, 270, 329 note. 

 August, tinkling notes of, 417, 418. 

 Auk, Little. See Dovekie. 

 Autumn, colors of birds in, 415. 



Barrett, Samuel, 113 and note, 309. 

 Barroom, a robin in a, 387. 

 Bartlett, Edward, 81, 128, 273. 

 Bay-wing. See Sparrow, Vesper. 

 Bechstein, Dr. J. M., quoted, 268, 



269. 

 Bird, in the hand, 417. 

 Bird-Lore, cited, 103 note. 

 Bittern, the genius of the Concord 



River, 218. 

 Bittern, American (Stake-driver), 



63-71; 3,79. 

 Bittern, Green. See Heron, Green. 

 Blackbird, Cow. See Cowbird. 

 Blackbird, Crow. See Grackle, 



Bronzed. 

 Blackbird, Bed-winged, 249-253; 



260,390,426; liquid notes of, 261; 



song belongs to the stream, 388. 

 Blackbird, Rusty, (Grackle), 265- 



267; 251,252,260,413. 

 Blackbirds (Miscellaneous), 259- 



264 ; 399. 

 Blake, Harrison G. O., 41. 

 Blueberry " trees," 108. 

 Bluebird, 394-402 ; 298, 388, 391, 403, 



413, 426, 428, 430 ; the note of the 



first, 425. 

 Bobolink, 244-247 ; 379, 411. 

 Bob-white (Quail), 94,96; 414, 416, 



423, 431. 

 Boon Plain, 138. 



Bradshaw, Mr., of Wayland, 7, 8. 

 Brant, 46 note, 56. 

 Breast, of a hawk, the pure white, 



165. 

 Brewer, Dr. Thomas M., quoted and 



cited, 124, 304, 357. 

 Brewster, William, 138 note. 



Brooks, George, 113 and note, 116, 



185. 

 Brown, Frank, 47, 270, 319. 

 Buffle-head, 44, 46 ; 2 note. 

 Bunting, Black-throated, 68 note. 

 Bunting, Snow, 277-285; 285, 319, 



417, 431. 

 Buttrick, Humphrey, 104, 418. 



Cabot, J. Elliot, cited, 266 note. 



Cape Cod, 17, 18. 



Cat, the Thoreaus', 438. 



Catbird, 381; 427. 



Cedar, red, 423. 



Channing, William Ellery, 2d, 52 

 and note, 59, 90-92, 105, 247, 331, 

 375. 



Cherries, and the birds, 432, 433. 



Cherry, wild, 419. 



Cherry-bird. See Waxwing, Cedar, 

 48. 



Chewink. See Towhee. 



Chickadee (Titmouse), 368-375 ; 226, 

 367, 368, 388, 404, 415, 416. 



Chickens. See Fowl, domestic. 



Clark, D. B., 228. 



Climbing a tall pine, 231. 



Cock. See Fowl, domestic. 



Conantum, 22. 



Concord, History of, quoted, 261. 



Coombs, of Concord, 26, 116, 117. 



Cooper, Susan Fenimore, her Rural 

 Hours cited, 5 note. 



Coot, American, 83. 



Cowbird (Cow Blackbird, Cow 

 Troopial), 247-249 ; 435. 



Creeper, Black and White. See 

 Warbler, Black and White. 



Creeper, Brown, 366 ; 416, 422. 



Crossbill, Red, 267-269. 



Crow, American, 229-243; 17, 142, 

 153, 175, 226, 416; teetering along 

 the water's edge, 14; buffeting a 

 fish hawk, 156; alert to detect fish 

 hawks, 160, 161 ; pursued by small 

 birds, 427 ; pursuing fish hawk and 

 eagle, 427 ; their note a pulse, 431 ; 

 and a boy's dart, 433. 



