INDEX 



Wasps, solitary, ways of, 116-118 ; 

 instinct in, 158, 159 ; intelligence 

 of, 164. 



Wasps, stinging instinct in sting- 

 less, 169, 170. 



Waxwing, cedar. See Cedar-bird. 



Weasel, rescuing young, 24. 



White, Gilbert, on the swallow's 

 nest-building, 167, 168 ; 203; his 

 account of his old tortoise, 207. 



Whitman, Walt, quoted, 206. 



Wolf, prairie. See Coyote. 



Wolves, 66. 



Wood-borers, 49, 50. 



Woodchuck, 72. 



Woodcock (Philohela minor), 



song and song flight of, 42, 43. 

 Woodpecker, downy {Dryobates 



pubescens medianus), dispos- 

 sessed by flying-squirrels, 20; 

 trying to evict a hairy wood- 

 pecker, 21. 

 Woodpecker, hairy {Dry abates 

 villosus), and downy woodpeck- 

 er, 21. 



Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or 

 yellow-bellied sapsucker {Sphy- 

 rapicus varius), 91. 



Wren, European, nest of, 138, 

 139. 



Wren, house ( Troglodytes aedon), 

 nesting-materials of, 19 ; young 

 of, 162; handling twigs, 166. 



Young, Egerton, his My Dogs of 

 the Northland, 194. 



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