INDEX 245 
Leopard frog, 46 
Lilac, 90, 91, 92 
Lobelia, 74, 153, 155 
Loon (or great northern diver), 
1 12, 116-119, 176 
Loose-strife, 72 
Lordly crow, 5 
Maiden-hair fern, 111 
Mandrake, 189 
Maple, 4, 21, 52, 10, no, 159, 
188, 198, 212, 213 
Marsh marigold, 49 
Marsh wren, 124 
Maryland yellow-throat, 102 
Meadow lark, 31, 57 
Medicinal herbs, 161 
Migratory birds, 19, 179-181 
Milkweed, 147 
Mink, 50 
Monarch butterfly (Anosia plex- 
ippus), 145-148 
Moon, 185-187 
Mosquito, 67 
Moth, life of a, 90-93 
Mourning dove, 87-89 
Mud hens (coot and Florida 
gallinule), 182 
Mullen, 12 
Muskrat, 5, 49, 70, 87, 114, 194, 
195, 226-229, 238 
Myrtle warblers, 180 
Niagara, 34, 109-111 
Night-hawk, 65-69, 92, 100, 116, 
121 , 177 
Northern Calypso, 75, 170 
Nuthatch, 22, 31, 35, 127, 191, 
205 
Oak, 12, 22, 53, 56, 70, no, 198 
Olive-sided fly-catcher, 96 
Ontario, 162, 163 
Orchids, 169-171 
Oriole, 50 
Osage orange, 78 
Oven-bird, 53, 81, 193 
Owl, n, 19, 51, 112, 116, 176, 
220-222, 223-225 
Ox-eye daisy, 74 
Painted cup, 153 
Painted trillium, in 
Partridge, 128 
Partridge-berry, 152, 239 
Pea gall, 192 
Peat fuel, 8 
Pellaea, in 
Phoebe, 96, 127 
Pike, 137 
Pines, no, 114, 188 
Pink lady's slipper, 8, 76 
Pipsissewa, 22, 239 
Pitcher plant, 8-10, 153 
Plover, 19, 182, 209 
Polly-wogs, 47 
Porcupine, 114 
Potato beetle, 128 
Powder post beetle, 120-122 
Prairie chicken, 128 
Promethea moth, 90-93 
Purple finch, 18 
Purple grosbeak, 19, 241 
Purple martin (or black swallow), 
135 
Pyrola, 8 
Quail, 128 
Rails, 50, 100, 124, 125 
Red fox, 50 
Red-heads, 230 
Redpolls, 208 
Red-shouldered hawk, 206 
Red-start, 50, 53 
Redwing, 124* 125 
Red-winged blackbirds, 3 
Ring-necks, 143 
Robin, 3, n, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 
31, 34, 56, 62-64, 80, 94, 127, 
128, 181, 223, 240 
Rock rose, 72 
Ruby- throated humming-bird, 
128 
