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. 



Phoebe-bird {Sayornis phcebe), 

 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 migratoriiis), 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 {Colinits 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 Intellige7ice, 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. See 

 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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