milky juice, 66.
moccasin plant, 54, 75.
nasturtium, self-willed, 149.
ox-eye daisy, 66.
painter of, 68.
paradise of, 53.
pentstemon, 58.
pink stranger, 62.
primrose, 58, 67.
roses, 58, 63, 75.
spiderwort, 52.
symphony in green, 55.
varieties, 53, 57.
vetches, 67.
wild garden, 57.
wild mignonette, 62.
yellow daisies, 52.
yucca, 55, 62.

Gates, idiosyncrasies of, 220.

Getting up in the morning, 95.

Glen, a beautiful, 155.
frightened out of, 169.

Grasshopper, a clacking, 266.

Grave of "H. H.," 90, 91.

Great-crested flycatcher, 167.

Gull, the herring, 211.
following the plow, 213.
flight, 215.
manners, 213.
nesting, 216.
nooning, 215.
penalty for killing, 212.
sent to the "Chosen People," 212.
value of, 216.

Horned lark:
horns, 36.
nest, 36.
song, 35.

Horse, a scared, and result, 228.
drive me away, 257.

House wren, the Western, 24.
babies, 27, 28.
disturbed, 27.
manners, 24.
nest, 25.
song, 27.
strange cry, 25.

Humming-bird:
collecting spiders, 271.
different from the Eastern, 38.
dislike of heat, 272.
in canyon, 76.
last glimpse, 273.
manners, 269.
nesting, 272.
noisy, 38.
precious beak, 271.
scolding, 42.
surveillance, 40.
the broad-tailed, 268.
toilet of, 271.

Ideal retreat, an, 247.

In a pasture, 207.

In the Middle Country, 93.

In the Rocky Mountains, 1.

Irrigation vagaries, 242, 245, 267.

Kansas, 7.

Kitchen, an al fresco, 243.

Kitten, a lost, 39.

Lazuli-painted finch, 261.
anxiety of mother, 263.
babies, 267.
manners, 262, 265.
nest, 262.
nest destroyed, 268.

Magpie:
discover us, 225.
manners, 216, 219, 224.
nest, 223.
nursery, 230.
reception to us, 227.
search for nest, 216.
song, 224.

Meadow-lark, the Western, 249.
cry, 120.
song, 24, 32, 34.

Morning tramp, a, 156.

Mosquito, absence of, 20.
a lonely, 21.

Mourning dove, 103.
headquarters, 199.
joke of, 200.
manners, 196, 198, 199.
nest, 198.
silence of, 201, 204.
song, 195, 204.
talk, 204.
wing whistle, 204.
young, interview with, 201.
young, manners of, 197, 201.

Oak-brush, the, 222.

On the lawn, 259.

Orchard, an old, 250.

Orchard oriole:
a later view, 191.
anxiety of par