INDEX. 



A. 



Abnormal habits in animals, 19 1 

 Acadia, Derivation of the name, 36 



(Note) 

 Acer Pennsylvanicum, 82 

 Agriculture, Primitive condition of, 45 



(Note) 

 Air-holes, 5 

 Aix sponsa, 208 

 Alaska, 71 

 Albertite, 268 

 Albinism, 75 et sq., 99, 120 (Note), 150 



(Note), 156, 172 

 Alewive, 13, 247 



fishery, 13 

 Algonquin race, 27, 33 

 America, Zoological divisions of, 178 



et sq. 

 American goldfinch, 155 

 ,, hake, 256 

 hare, 79 

 herring, 265 

 sable, 59 

 ,, sheldrake, 190 

 Amethystine salmon, 236 

 Amphibians, List of, of New Brunswick, 



303 et sq. 

 Anas obscura, 13 1 (Note), 190, 193, 208 

 Anderson's Cove, 264 

 Androscoggin River, 253 

 Anguilla Tenuirostris, 256 

 ,, Bostoniensis, 256 

 Antelope, 87 

 Antlers, Deer casting, 88 



, , Time of casting, 89 

 Apple trees, 129 

 Aqueous erosion, 222 

 Argyrosoma clupeiformis, 247 (Note) 

 Arrow-heads, 28, 33 



,, Mode of manufacture of, 



32, 33 



Arthusa bulbosa, 93 

 Arvicola Gaftperii, 37 

 Attihawmeg, 246, 247 

 Auk, Remains of the' great, 36 



B. 



Backwoodsmen, 40 et sq. 



Bald Mountain, 4 (Note), 203, 269 



,, Sea Eagle, 118 et sq. 

 Baltimore Oriole, 138 (Note) 

 Banded Dace, 255 



,, three-toed Woodpecker, 142 

 Barn Swallow, 150, 151 

 Barred Owl, 121 

 Barrens, 92 



,, Formation of, 92 

 Barrow's Golden Eye, 190 

 Bascanion constrictor, 196 

 Bass fishing, 249 

 ,, spearing, 248 

 ,, Striped, 248 et sq. 

 ,, White Lake, 250 

 Bassagis, 249 (Note) 

 Bat, Hoary, 98 



,, New York, 98 

 Bay Shiner, 255 

 Bear, 139 



,, Approaching extinction of the, 73 

 ,, Barren-ground, 71 

 ,, Black, 71 

 ,, Brown, 71 



,, Hibernation of the, 72, 73 

 ,, Isabel-coloured, 71 

 ,, Return of the, to forsaken haunts, 

 69 

 Beaver, 71, 94 



,, Bones of the, in middens, 37 

 , , Gradual extinction of the, 94 

 ,, Haunts of the, 94 

 ,, Return of the, to forsaken 

 haunts, 69 

 Beaver-dam, Visit to a, 94 

 Beccafico, 188 



Belted Kingfisher, 141 (Note) 

 Big Lake, 209 

 Bighorn, 70 

 Bill, Causes of deformity of the, in 



birds, 167 et sq. 

 Birch Partridge, 74, 174 

 Bird-catching, 165 



