VOLUME IV.—JULY TO DECEMBER, 1898.

• A Bloodless Sportsman, 39
• A Book By the Brook, 39
• Acorn, Thirty Miles for an, 29
• African Folk Lore, 12
• Ah Me!, 113
• Alaska, Birds of, 95
• All Nature, 37
• Almond, Flowering (Amygdalus communis), 193-5
• Animals and Music, 159
• Animals' Rights, 225
• Animals, Some Propensities of, 81
• Animals, Talk of, 140
• Animals and Water, 84
• Animal World, In the, 136
• Antelope, The Pigmy (Antilope pigmea), 94-95
• Apple Blossoms, 36
• Armadillo as a Pet, 12
• Armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta), 146-7
• Autumn, 132
• Azamet, the Hermit, and His Dumb Friends, 33

• Bat, Black (Scotophilus carolinensis)	}	170-1
  Bat, Red (Atalapha noveboracensis)

• Bats, Tame, 168
• Birds, 163
• Bird, A Little, 162
• Bird Courtship, 164
• Birds Foretell Marriage, 16
• Birds in the Garden and Orchard, 153
• Birds in the Iliad, 234
• Birds Mentioned in the Bible, 48
• Bird of Paradise, The King (Cincinnurus regius), 124-7
• Birds, Sleeping Places of, 164
• Birds and Animals of the Philippines, 48
• Birds, Reasoning Powers of, 43
• Birds in Storms, 163
• Bobolink's Song, 61
• Butterfly, The, 142
• Butterflies, 102
• Butterflies (illustrations), 23, 63, 103, 143, 183, 223
• Butterflies, How Protected, 62
• Butterfly Trade, 22
• Butterflies Love to Drink, 182
• Cactus (Echinocadus le Contii) (Mamillaria Sheerii), 210-11
• Christmas Trees, 220
• Color Photographs and Conversation Lessons, 194
• Constantinople, From, 158
• Count? Can Animals, 180
• Country, A Gameless, 229
• Dolphin, The Bottlenose (Tursiops tursio), 134-5
• Doves of Venice, 100
• Ears, 121
• Eyes, 117
• Farewell, The Turkey's, 162
• Fern, The Petrified, 83
• Flowers, The Death of the, 189
• Flowers, The Use of, 34
• Fox, The American Gray (Vulpes virginianus), 105-7
• Fox, The Red (Vulpes fulvus), 66-9
• Golden-eye, American (Glaucionetta clangula americana), 230-1
• Golden-rod (Solidago Virga-aurea), 154-5
• Grouse, Prairie Sharp-tailed (PediocÆtes phasianellus campestris), 166-167
• Gull, Herring (Larus argentatus Smithsonianus), 86-7
• Hawk, Red-shouldered (Buteo lineatus), 96-9
• Hen, Prairie (Tympanucus americanus), 18-19
• Humming-birds (1 Lampornis gramineus) (2 Pelasophora anais) (3 White-tailed), 216-19
• Instinct and Reason, 73
• Lion, African (Felis leo), 206-7
• Loon, The (Urinator imber), 58-9
• Midsummer, 65
• Miscellany, 109
• Mocking-birds at Tampa, Florida, 61
• Myths and the Mistletoe, 212
• Nature's Adjustments, 41
• Nature's Grotesque, 149
• Nature Study and Nature's Rights, 176
• Nature, The Voice of, 136
• Nature's Orchestra, 161
• Ocelot, The (Felis pardalis), 30-1
• October, 157
• Otter, American (Lutra canadensis), 172-5
• Peccary (Dicotyles torquatus), 128-31
• Pet, A Household, 52
• Pigeon, The Passenger, 25
• Plover, The Golden (Charadrius dominicus), 178-9
• Porcupine, Canadian (Erethizon dorsatus), 186-7
• Puffin, The Tufted (Lunda cirrhata), 138-9
• Rabbit, The American (Lepus sylvaticus), 26-7
• Raccoon, American (Procyon lotor), 90-1
• Red Head (Aythya americana), 150-1
• Sandpiper, The Least (Tringa minutilla), 70-1
• Sandpiper, The Pectoral (Tringa maculata), 114-15
• Secrets of an Old Garden, 16
• Seminary for Teaching Birds How to Sing, 78
• Sheep, Mountain (Ovis montana), 74-5
• Silk Worm, The (Bombyx mori), 222-3
• Skunk, American (Mephitis varians), 233
• Skylark, The, 176
• Snipe, Wilson's (Gallinago delicata), 6-7
• Snowflakes, 229
• Songsters, About the, 21
• Sparrow, New Champion for, 135
• Squirrels, Flying (Pteromys volucella), 214-15
• Squirrel, Fox (Sciurus cinereus), 54-6
• Squirrel, American Gray (Sciurus carolinensis), 110-11
• Squirrel, The Hunted, 119
• Squirrel, Red (Sciurus hudsonius), 14-15
• Squirrel Road, The, 44
• Squirrel Town, 4
• Summary, 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 238
• Symbol, A, 208
• Tern, Caspian (Sterna tschograva), 190-1
• Tern, The Common (Sterna hirundo), 46-7
• Useful Birds of Prey, 88
• Voices, 201
• Vulture, California (Pseudogryphus californianus), 226-7
• Walk, A Winter's, 221
• Wild Birds in London, 92
• Wolf, Black (Canis occidentalis), 8-11
• Wolf, Prairie (Canis latrans), 50-1
• Wren, The Envious, 185