INDEX 



Coyote, or prairie wolf, 82, 83, 189. 

 Crab, hermit, 155. 

 Crabs, defensive instinct in, 169, 

 170. 



Crossbills {Loxia sp.), feeding on 

 young peaches, 261. 



Crow, American (Corvus brachy- 

 rhynchos), winter quarters of, 

 50; the ''Hermit's " story of a 

 crow, 93; nature of his intelli- 

 gence, 136, 137; notes of, 188, 268 ; 

 story of a court of justice, 198, 

 199; maltreating a tame crow, 

 199 ; cunning of, 204 ; a misinter- 

 preted incident, 233,234; feed- 

 ing, 265, 266; suspiciousness of, 

 266; flocking of, 266, 267; mean- 

 ing of calls of, 268 ; disposition 

 of, 268; in Bermuda, 268; lines 

 on, 268. 



Crow, white-necked African, 135, 

 136. 



Crows and shell-fish, 2. 

 Cuckoos, 249 ; eating birds' eggs, 

 264; killed by robins, 264. 



Darwin, Charles, 65, 67, 73, 75, 76, 

 79, 82, 83, 87, 127, 136, 149, 177, 198. 



December, the month when Na- 

 ture closes her doors, 47. 



Deer, 84, 85, 185. 



Dipper. See Water ouzel. 



Dogs, imitativeness of, 66; show 

 gleams of reason, 76; 85,88; feel- 

 ings of shame, guilt, and re- 



' venge ascribed to, 144, 145 ; car- 

 rying a stick through a fence, 

 164-166; language of, 188; Mae- 

 terlinck on, 192, 193 ; John Muir's 

 story of a dog, 193, 194 ; Egerton 

 Young's book about, 194 ; hiding 

 a bone, 205; companionableness 

 of, 205, 206; 211, 221 ; rational in- 

 telligence in, 223-225 ; partake of 

 the master's nature, 224; story 

 of a pointer, 224, 225. 



Dove, turtle, or mourning dove 

 {Zenaidura macroura), occu- 

 pying a robin's nest, 7. 



Duck. See Mallard. 



Duck, eider. See American eider. 



Duck, wild, wounded, 213. 

 Duck, wood {Aix spo7isa), nest, 

 eggs, and young of, 21-23. 



Eagle, 103. 



Eagle, bald {Haliceetus leucoeeph- 

 alus), 72, 213. 



Ears, movements of, 95. 



Eider, American (Somateria dres- 

 seri), killing mussels, 180-182. 



Elephants, 76 ; protecting them- 

 selves from flies, 138; an incred- 

 ible story, 145, 146. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24 ; his 

 lines on the sparrow's song, 32, 

 102. 



Evolution, 170, 171. 



Fabre, the French naturalist, 158. 



Farm, the author's, 101. 



Fear, instinctive, 74-76; use of, 



89; indiscriminating, 89; panics, 



90. 



Finch, purple {Carpodacus pur- 

 pureus), song flight of, 44; song 

 of, 44. 



Fish and glass, 127. 



Flocks, communication in, 96-98. 



Fly, mimicking the honey-bee, 

 250. 



Flycatcher, great crested (Myiar- 

 chus crinitus), nesting-habits of, 

 17-19. 



Forest and Stream, 69, 93. 



Fox, capturing a rabbit, 8; 72; 

 poisoning stories of, 105 ; stories 

 of crab-catching, 106, 107; intel- 

 ligence of, 141, 142; misinter- 

 preted stories of, 199 ; and dead- 

 fall, 222, 223; cunning of, 223. 



Frog, wood, hibernation of, 48. 



Frogs, hibernation of, 49. 



Froude, 2. 



Fruits, colors of, 251-254. 



Golden-eye {Clangula clangula 

 americana), young leaving 

 nest, 22. 



Goldfinch {Astragalinus tristis), 

 flight song of, 43, 44 ; other notes 

 of, 44 ; musical festivals of, 104. 



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