r the most
deliberate of drivers with his carriage to drive me to the station, that
I might leave Utah altogether, the humming-bird appeared on the scene,
took a sip or two out of her red cups, flirted her feathers saucily in
my very face, then darted over the top of the cottage and disappeared;
and that was the very last glimpse I had of the little dame in green.

INDEX.

Acadian flycatcher, 161.

Arkansas goldfinch, 23.

At four o'clock in the morning, 95.

Barbed wire fence, 157.

Behind the tangle, 246.

Birds:
and poets, 194.
a strange song, 73.
different ways, 264.
hard to study, 20.
in Colorado, 18.
in Colorado Springs, 260.
in Denver, 260.
in the "Wrens' Court," 161, 166, 168.
leave nesting place, 154.
morning chorus, 21, 22, 105.
music in Colorado, 32.
not on exhibition, 19.
not sing alike, 34.
panic among, 39.
unfamiliar, 23, 259.
Utah, 260.

Black-headed grosbeak, 244, 251.
song of, 244.

Blue jay, 126.
and doll, 103.
and red-headed woodpecker, 104.
apple-tree nest, 151.
a struggle, 149.
attentive to mate, 127.
bad name, 147.
devoted mother, 127.
eating, 144.
getting over the ground, 145.
home deserted, 140.
interview with, 146.
joke or war-cry? 134.
manners, 130, 132, 144.
my search for nest, 126.
no pretense, 130.
pine-tree nest, 126.
vocabulary, 133.
when babies are noisy, 131.
with a stranger, 148.
with catbirds, 150.

Blue jay, the young:
accident to, 140.
beauty of, 143.
climber, 141.
first outing, 138.
imperfect, 152.
intelligence in house, 152.
on edge of nest, 137.
returned to parents, 153.

Bobolink song, 120.

Burro an investigator, 89.

Camp Harding, 9.

Camping in Colorado, 3.

Canyon wren, the, 74.
manners, 86, 87.
song, 74.

Cardinal grosbeak, 107.
abandoning the nest, 120.
as a father, 113.
confidence in people, 121.
delight of parents, 123.
eating corn, 109, 115.
importance of the builder, 119.
kindness to young, 117.
manners, 107.
nest, 122.
on grass, 105, 107.
politeness to mate, 116.
reception of woodpecker, 108.
rose trellis nest, 121.
speeding the parting guest, 125.
victim of English sparrow, 114.

Cardinal, the young, 113.
characteristics, 114.
first baby out, 122.
food of, 123.
song of, 116.