ABUTILON, or velvet-leaf.
Ailanthus.
Alder, white.
Amaranth, 215.
Arbutus, trailing, or mayflower.
Arethusa.
Arkville.
Arnold, George.
Ash.
Asters.
Azalea, pink, or pinxter-flower.
Azalea, smooth.
Azalea, white.
Azalea, yellow.
Ball, an inexpensive.
Bark-a-boom.
Baxter's Brook.
Bay, sweet.
Bear, black, attacked with a club.
Bear-weed.
Beattie, James, quotation from.
Beaver, 173.
Bee. See Bumblebee, Honey-bee, and Sweat-bee.
Bee, solitary.
Beech.
Berries.
Bidens, or two-teeth, or pitchforks.
Big Beaver Kill.
Big Mountain.
Bindweed, black.
Birch, yellow.
Birds, singing at night; morning awakening of; individuality in the
songs of; in poetry; process of hatching; leaving the nest; arrival
in spring; love-making among; war among; their departure in the
fall; a good season for; songs of, in America and in England.
Birds of prey, their flight when laden.
Blackbird, cow, or cowbird (MOLOTHRUS ATER).
Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle (QUISCALUS QUISCULA).
Blackbird, European, in poetry; his resemblance to the American
robin; notes of.
Blackbird, red-winged. See Starling, red-shouldered.
Blackbird, rusty. See Grackle, rusty.
Bladderwort, horned.
Bluebird (SIALIA SIALIS), in poetry; notes of; nest of.
Blue-weed, or viper's bugloss; travels of; description of.
Boat, a picturesque.
Bobolink (DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; as a wooer; notes of.
Bob-white. See Quail.
Bouncing Bet, or saponaria.
Boys.
Bryant, William Cullen; as a poet of nature; quotations from.
Buckwheat, wild.
Bugloss.
Bugloss, viper's. See Blue-weed.
Bullfrog.
Bumblebee; nest of.
Bunting, English.
Bunting, indigo. See Indigo-bird.
Bunting, snow, or snowflake (PASSERINA NIVALIS).
Burdock.
Burns, Robert, quotation from.
Butt End.
Buttercup.
Caledonia springs.
Calopogon.
Camping; in the rain.
Campion, bladder.
Cardinal (CARDINALIS CARDINALIS); notes of.
Cardinal flower. See Lobelia, scarlet.
Carrot, wild.
Catbird (GALEOSCOPTES CAROLINENSIS), in poetry; notes of.
Catnip.
Catskill Mountains.
Cattle, crossing a river; as eaters of weeds.
Cedar-bird, or cedar waxwing (AMPELIS CEDRORUM.
Chamomile.
Chewink, or towhee (PIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS).
Chickadee (PARUS ATRICAPILLUS); nest of.
Chickweed; at the antipodes.
Chicory, or succory; in poetry.
Chipmunk.
Chippie. See Sparrow.
Chough.
Cicada, or harvest-fly.
Claytonia, or spring beauty.
Clematis, wild.
Clouds, boat-shaped.
Clover.
Clover, white.
Cochecton Falls.
Cockle.
Colchester.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quotation from.
Coltsfoot.
Coltsfoot, sweet.
Columbine.
Companions, outdoor.
Cone-flower.
Coon. See Raccoon.
Cormorant.
Corn, Indian.
Cowbird. See Blackbird, cow.
Cows. See Cattle.
Cowslip. See Marigold, marsh.
Cowslip, English.
Creeper, brown (CERTHIA FAMILIARIS AMERICANA), nest of.
Crickets. See Tree-crickets.
Crow American (CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS), gait of; notes of.
Cuckoo (COCCYZUS sp.), heard at night; habits of; in poetry; notes
of.
Cuckoo, European.
Cuckoo-buds.
Cuckoo-flower.
Cuckoo-pint.
Cypripedium. See Lady's-slipper.
Daffodil.
Daisy, English.
Daisy, ox-eye.
Dandelion.
Darnel.
Day, a white.
Dead-nettle.
Delaware River, Pepacton branch of. See Pepacton River.
Dentaria.
Deposit.
Dicentra, or squirrel corn.
Dock, curled-leaf.
Dock, yellow.
Doctor, the (a snake).
Dog, Cuff and the woodchucks. See Greyhound and Hound.
Dog, farm, hound and.
Dogbane.
Dove, mourning (ZENAIDURA MACROURA).
Doves.
Downsville.
Dry Brook.
Ducks, feeding.
Duck-shooting on the Potomac.
Eagle, chased by a kingbird; flight of an.
East Branch.
Elecampane.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quotations from; his knowledge of nature.
England, bird-songs in; pedestrianism in; the footpaths of; the
highways of.
Esopus.
Eupatorium, purple.
Falcon, haggard.
Finch, purple (CARPODACUS PURPUREUS; notes of.
Fisherman, an ancient.
Fishes, spring movements of.
Fleabane, or whiteweed.
Flicker. See High-hole.
Flowers, wild, in poetry; fragrant.
Footpaths, lack of, in America; English; a schoolboy's footpath.
Forenoon, as distinguished from morning.
Fort Washington.
Fox, red, and hound,; hunting a; favorite sleeping places of; hard
fare in winter; an encounter between rivals.
Fringed-orchis, purple.
Frog. See Bullfrog.
Frog, clucking. See Wood-frog.
Frog, peeping. See Hyla, Pickering's.
Garlic.
Gentian, closed.
Gentian, fringed, 63; Bryant's poem on.
Gill.
Girls.
Goethe.
Goldenrod.
Goldfinch, American (ASTRAGALINUS TRISTIS; pairing habits of; notes
of.
Goose-foot.
Grackle, purple. See Blackbird, crow.
Grackle, rusty, or rusty blackbird (EUPHAGUS CAROLINUS), notes of.
Grass, the natural covering of the fields.
Grass, harvest.
Grass, quack.
Grass, quitch.
Green Cove Spring.
Greyhound.
Ground-nut.
Grouse, ruffed, or partridge (BONASA UMBELLUS), in poetry; drumming
of.
"Gums,".
Gum-tree.
Haggard.
Hancock.
Hare, northern.
Hares.
Harrisonburg, Va.
Harvard.
Harvest-fly. See Cicada.
Hawk, in poetry, 116. See Hen-hawk.
Hawkfish. See Osprey, American.
Hawk's Point.
Hedgehog.
Hedge-sparrow.
Hemlock, poison.
Henbane.
Hen-hawk.
Hepatica, or liver-leaf; the first spring flower; an intermittently
fragrant flower.
Hercules.
Heron.
Heron, great blue (ARDEA HERODIAS; notes of, 24, 28.
High-hole, or golden-winged woodpecker, or flicker (COLAPTES
AURATUS LUTEUS; notes of; nest of.
Highlands of the Hudson, the.
Holywell.
Honey, flowers which yield.
Honey-bee, a product of civilization; wandering habits of; hunting
wild bees; method of handling; as robbers; enemies of; Virgil on.
Honeysuckle.
Hooker, Sir Joseph.
Hop-clover.
Hornet, black.
Hornet, sand.
Hound, fox and.
Hound's-tongue.
Housatonic River.
Houstonia, or innocence.
Humble-bee. See Bumblebee.
Humming-bird, ruby-throated (TROCHILUS COLUBRIS), in poetry; nest
of.
Hunt, Helen, quotation from.
Hyacinth, wild.
Hyla, Pickering's, or peeping frog; arboreal life of.
Hylas, the story of.
Indigo-bird or indigo bunting (CYANOSPIZA CYANEA; notes of.
Innocence. See Houstonia.
Insects, nocturnal.
Iron-weed.
Ivy.
Ivy, poison.
Jack, catching.
Jay, blue (CYANOCITTA CRISTATA; notes of.
Jewel-weed.
Junco, slate-colored. See Snowbird.
Katydids.
Kingbird (TYRANNUS TYRANNUS), chasing an eagle; as a bee-eater;
notes of.
Kingfisher, belted (CERYLE ALCYON.
Knapp, Hon. Charles.
Knot-grass.
Lady's-slipper, large yellow.
Lady's-slipper, purple.
Lady's-slipper, small yellow.
Lady's tresses.
Lake Oquaga.
Lamprey.
Lapwing.
Lark. See Skylark.
Lark, shore or horned (OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS and O. A. PRATICOLA) and
note.
Larkspur.
Laurel, mountain.
Leeks.
Lettuce, wild, 230, inden.
Linnæa.
Live-forever.
Liver-leaf. See Hepatica.
Lobelia, great blue.
Lobelia, scarlet, or cardinal flower.
Locust-tree.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, his inaccuracy in dealing with
nature; quotations from.
Loosestrife.
Loosestrife, hairy.
Loosestrife, spiked, travels of; description of.
Lowell, James Russell, quotations from; his fidelity to nature.
Mallow.
Mandrake.
Maple, sugar; fragrance of its blossoms.
Marigold, marsh.
Martin, purple (PROGNE SUBIS).
Masque of the Poets, A, quotation from.
Mayflower. See Arbutus, trailing.
Mayweed.
Meadowlark (STURNELLA MAGNA); notes of.
Merganser, hooded (LOPHODYTES CUCULLATUS), with a brood of young.
Mice.
Milkweed.
Mink.
Mitchella vine, or squaw-berry, or partridge-berry.
Moccasin.
Mockingbird (MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS), in poetry.
Morning and forenoon, distinction between.
Motherwort.
Mount Vernon.
Mouse, field.
Mouse, white-footed, 169; tracks of.
Mullein; habits of.
Mullein, moth.
Mullein, white.
Musconetcong Creek.
Muskrat; a weatherwise animal; active in winter; nests of.
Mustard, wild.
Nature, the poets' intuitive knowledge of; Emerson's knowledge of;
Bryant's knowledge of; Longfellow's inaccuracy in dealing with;
Whittier's treatment of; Lowell's fidelity to Tennyson's accurate
observations of; Walt Whitman a close student of; the poetic
interpretation of; the scientific interpretation of.
Negro girl, a conversation with a.
Nettle.
Nettle, blind.
Nettle, hemp.
Nighthawk (CHORDEILES VIRGINIANUS.
Nightshade.
Note in the woods, a new.
Oak, white.
Onion, wild.
Opossum.
Orchids, American flora rich in.
Orchis, fringed. See Fringed-orchis.
Orchis, showy.
Oriole, Baltimore (ICTERUS GALBULA); as a fruit-destroyer; notes
of; nest of.
Orpine, garden. See Live-forever.
Orpines, native.
Osprey, American, or fish hawk (PANDION HALIAËTUS CAROLINENSIS),
feeding on the wing.
Otter.
Oven-bird (SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS); song of.
Owl, screech (MEGASCOPS ASIO), and shrike.
Oxlip.
Pain, in relation to the nervous system.
Parsnip, wild.
Partridge. See Grouse, ruffed.
Partridge-berry. See Mitchella vine.
Partridge Island.
Pepacton River; a voyage down.
Pewee, wood (CONTOPUS VIRENS), Trowbridge's poem on.
Phbe-bird (SAYORNIS PHBE); notes of; nest of.
Pigeon, passenger (ECTOPISTES MIGRATORIUS).
Pigeons.
Pigweed.
Pine, loblolly, 247.
Pinxter-flower. See Azalea, pink.
Pipit, American. See Titlark.
Pitchforks. See Biclens.
Plantain.
Plantain, narrow-leaved.
Pliny, his account of an intermittent spring.
Poets, their intuitive knowledge of nature; inaccuracies and
felicities in matters of natural history; their interpretation of
nature.
Pogonia, adder's-tongue.
Pokeweed.
Polygala, fringed.
Pond-lily, or sweet-scented water lily.
Pond-lily, yellow.
Poppy, scarlet field.
Porcupine, Canadian.
Potomac River, duck-shooting on.
Primrose, in poetry.
Primrose, evening.
Prince's pine.
Purslane.
Pyrola. See Wintergreen, false.
Quail, or bob-white (COLINUS VIRGINIANUS.
Rabbit, gray.
Rabbits.
Raccoon, or coon.
Radish, wild.
Rafting on the Delaware.
Ragweed; a troublesome weed.
Rain, arboreal; summer.
Raspberry.
Rat, wood.
Redbird. See Cardinal.
Redpoll (ACANTHIS LINARIA), notes; of.
Red-root.
Rhododendron.
River, a voyage down a; loneliness of the.
Roads, in England and America.
Robin, American (MERULA MIGRATORIA); in poetry; in love and war;
notes of; nest of.
Rondout Creek.
Roots, like molten metal.
St. John's-wort.
Salamander, banded.
Salamander, red.
Salamander, violet-colored or spotted.
San Antonio, Texas.
Saponaria. See Bouncing Bet.
Sapsucker, yellow-bellied. See-Woodpecker, yellow-bellied.
Sawmill, a floating.
Scott, Sir Walter.