• Blackbird, cow. See Cowbird.
• Bluebird, arrival in spring, 1;
  • nest-building, 1, 2;
  • young and cicada, 2, 3;
  • a bewildered pair, 3-7;
  • love and rivalry, 7-12;
  • war with house wrens, 47-52.
• Bluebird, The, poem, 13.
• Bobolink, courtship, 77, 78;
  • concealment of nest, 78-81.
• Bobolink, The, poem, 82.
• Bob-white. See Quail.
• Butcher-bird. See Shrike, northern.

• Catbird, song of, 72, 73;
  • and black snake, 73-76;
  • a coquette, 83.
• Cedar-bird, nest-building, 122, 123;
  • notes of, 124.
• Chewink, markings of, 39;
  • Thomas Jefferson writes to Alexander Wilson about, 39-41;
  • inhospitality of, 83.
• Chickadee, nesting of, 157-160.
• Chippy. See Sparrow, chipping.
• Coming of Phoebe, The, poem, 31.
• Cowbird, notes of, 33;
  • parasitic habits of, 33-35.
• Crow, character of, 138, 139;
  • manners of, 139, 140;
  • wariness of, 140-142;
  • yearly meeting, 142, 143.
• Crow, The, poem, 144.

• Downy Woodpecker, The, poem, 169.

• Flicker, call of, 21;
  • courtship, 22, 25, 26;
  • not satisfied with being a woodpecker, 22, 23;
  • excavating a nest, 23;
  • young, 23-25;
  • drumming, 26, 27.

• Goldfinch, nesting, 125, 126;
  • notes of, 126-128;
  • flight of, 127, 128;
  • musical festivals, 128, 129.
• Grouse, ruffed, 133-136.

• Hawk, marsh, habits of, 106;
  • nest of, 106-108;
  • young, 111, 112;
  • a pet young one, 112-117.
• Hawk, red-shouldered. See
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  
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