45307-h@45307-h-7.htm.html#Page_315" class="pginternal">315, 316; nest and eggs of, 64, 124. Claytonia, or spring beauty, 42, 43. Clintonia, 42. Clover, red, 42. Clover, sweet, or melilotus, 29. Columbine, 13. Condor, 309. Cone-flower, or rudbeckia, 98. Contentment, 87-90. Coon. See Raccoon. Corydalis, 13. Cowbird, or cow-bunting (Molothrus ater), desecrating a vireo's nest, 290, 291; the young bird and its foster-parent, 315-316. Crane, sandhill (Grus mexicana), 105-107; nest and eggs of, 105, 106. Crickets, field, hibernating of, 255. Crow, American (Corvus americanus), their fellow-feeling and courtesy towards each other, 119, 120; suspiciousness of, 121, 122, 164, 171, 265, 298; the male feeding his mate, 312; notes of, 163; nest of, 312. Cuckoo, European, 316. Cypripedium. See Lady's-slipper. Daffodil, 19. Dandelion, 104, 105. David, a guide in the Catskills, 39, 40. Deer, Virginia (Cariacus virginianus), 41, 277-279. Dicentra. See Dutchman's breeches and Squirrel corn. Dickcissel. See Bunting, black-throated, 239. Dipper, European, eggs of, 65. Dog, a, detected in stealing, 58, 59; a red squirrel's race with a, 198, 199, 256. Dog-toes, 98. Double-Top, 43. Dove, turtle or mourning (Zenaidura macroura), 236, 299; nest and young of, 299, 300. Duck, eider, 70. Ducks, wild, 101, 161. Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), 4. Eel, 97; in Kentucky, 228, 233. Houstonia, or bluets, 19, 20. Hummingbird, ruby-throated (Trochilus colubris), probing peaches, 286; a curious statement about, 287; nest and eggs of, 65. Hunters and their victims, 277-281. Hyla, Pickering's, or peeper, 166, 168, 254. Illinois, birds observed in, 235, 236. Indian cucumber root, or medeola, 2, 3. Indigo-bird, or indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea), song of, 188; nest of, 188. Invalid, observations of an, 87-109. Ironweed, 228. Jay, blue (Cyanocitta cristata), hoarding food, 90, 91; worried by a wren, 92, 128, 130, 236; a devourer of the eggs and young of other birds, 289; mobbed by robins, 289, 290, 293; a male feeding his mate, 298, 299, 300; notes of, 128, 299; nest and eggs of, 92, 128, 298, 299. Jefferies, Richard, a reporter of nature, 207; his Wild Life, 207; a sympathetic spectator of nature, not an observer, 211; his Gamekeeper at Home, 211; his Amateur Poacher, 211; his My Old Village, 211; quotation from, 211-213. Jewel-weed, 28, 29. Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 204, 205; on scorpions and swallows, 251. Joint-snake. See Snake, glass. Journal, keeping a, 155-158. Junco. See Snowbird. Kentucky, the journey into, 221-223; the blue-grass region of, 223-234; the birds of, 234-239; Mammoth Cave, 241-250. Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), 293;
>. Snake, garter, 131; as a rattler, 309. Snake, glass, or joint-snake, 263, 264. Snake, green, 131; protective coloring of, 260, 261. Snakes, spring awakening of, 163; their so-called power of charming, 255-257. See Hair-snake. Snow, on Slide Mt., 54; damage to peach buds caused by, 160; tracks in, 302-304. Snowbird, or slate-colored junco (Junco hyemalis), 159. Snowflake. See Bunting, snow. Sparrow, bush or russet or field (Spizella pusilla), 119; song of, 165, 167. Sparrow, Canada or tree (Spizella monticola), 159. Sparrow, English (Passer domesticus), 62, 77, 118, 119, 272, 275; a female assists a chippie in feeding a young cowbird, 315. Sparrow, fox (Passerella iliaca), song of, 308. Sparrow, Henslow's (Ammodramus henslowii), 296. Sparrow, lark. See Finch, lark. Sparrow, savanna (Ammodramus sandwichensis savanna), 296. Sparrow, social. See Chippie. Sparrow, song (Melospiza fasciata), 64; building on an insecure foundation, 123, 124, 159; an interesting couple, 187-189; song of, 169, 170, 187, 189; nest and eggs of, 15, 63, 64, 123, 124, 135, 187-189. Sparrow, swamp (Melospiza georgiana), 17; nest of, 17. Sparrow, yellow-winged or grasshopper (Ammodramus savannarum passerinus), 295-297; notes of, 295, 296; nest and eggs of, 296. Spider, a Javan, 309. Spider, flying, 220. Spring, first days of, 158-160, 218-220. Spring beauty. See Claytonia. Springs, in Kentucky, 232. Spruce, 6; a grove on S
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