INDEX 
Alders, 3, 15, 36, 103 
American goldfinch (or wild 
canary or thistle bird), 173- 
175 
American mergansers, 38-30 
Anosia plexippus (monarch 
butterfly), 145-148 
Arethusa, 76 
Arrowhead, 49 
Arvicola riparius (shore mouse), 
5, 35-27, 338 
Aster, 13, 33, 25, 74/ 13 2, 155/ 
159/ 239 
Balm-of-Gilead, 114 
Barn swallow, 33 
Basswood, 56, 113 
Bat, 51 
Beavers, 35, 70, 326, 327 
Beech drops, 190 
Beech nuts, 189 
Beeches, 188, 31 1, 213 
Bellwort, 59 
Birches, 4, 63, 114, 159 
Birds and struggle for existence, 
172-173 
Bittern, 50, 134 
Bittersweet, 314-216 
Black birch, 4 
Blackbird, 3, 31, 50, 138, 130- 
133, 183, 333 
Black cherry, 53 
Black-heart, 98 
Black squirrel, 3 17-2 19, 242 
Black warbler, 103 
Blood-root, 37, 38, 43, 44/ 59/ 
71/ 75 
Blue-bill, 189, 330 
Bluebird, 3, 11, 13, 13, 18, 31, 
57/ 199 
Blue heron, 50 
Blue jay, 340 
Bobolink, 173 
Boneset, 170 
Brown creeper, 31, 36 
Brown thrasher, 57, 81, 103, 138 
Bulbed fern, in 
Bulrushes, 133- 135 
Bush honeysuckle, 73 
Calopogon, 170 
Canada goose, 39-41 
Canada jay, 341 
Cancer root, 190 
Cardinal lobelia, 74, 153 
Carolina rail, 134 
Catbird (or Canadian mocking- 
bird), 103, 138, 139-141 
Caterpillars, 53 
Cedar, 31, 103, no, 188, 199 
Chebec, 96 
Chickadee, 63, 113, 196, 304, 
305, 330, 343 
Chickory, 73 
Chipmunk, 50, 319 
Chipping sparrow (chippie), 83, 
105-108 
Choke-cherry, 93, 189 
Clams, 78 
Closed gentian, 49 
Cone flower, 74 
Coot, 183-184 
Cornucopia, 155 
Corpse plant, 190 
Cottontail, 5, 330 
Cowbird,„io5-io8, 130 
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