pper leaves the sun glanced, dazzling the
eyes. Mourning doves cooed, and the sweet notes of yellow-birds filled
the sunny grove with suggestions of happiness. A yellow butterfly
wandered down the blue aisles. Such a secure retreat! I returned to it
again and again, coming in out of the hot yellow world and closing
behind me the doors of my 'rest-house,' for the little wood had come to
seem like a cool wayside chapel, a place of peace.

And when I finally left California, deserting Mountain Billy to return
to the East, of all my haunts the one left the most unwillingly was the
little blue gum grove, the peaceful wayside rest-house, in whose
whitened shade we had spent so many quiet hours together.

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INDEX

Bee-bird, 114-116, 117.
catching bees, 114, 115.
caught in cobweb rope, 116.
defending nest with life, 91-92.
domesticity, 116.
flycatching, 16, 91, 160.
making living off blackbirds, 13.
nest, 91.
nesting site, 91, 115.
noisy, 15.
notes, 91, 116.
quarrelsome, 91, 115, 116.

Bird Psychology,
association of ideas, 46, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 115, 135, 138, 154,
198.
caution, 9, 22, 28, 36, 65, 66, 67, 82, 85, 87, 88, 94, 156, 196,
198, 201, 202, 204.
courage, 11-12, 23, 40, 42, 54, 83, 95, 97, 126, 129, 141, 144,
175, 177, 180, 181, 210, 215.
curiosity, 25, 97, 100, 151.
dissimulation, 45, 49, 62, 190, 215.
emotion,--
fear, 22, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 46, 61, 67, 71, 73, 81,
87, 88, 105, 133, 135, 154, 164, 177, 180, 191, 215, 218;
grief, 46, 47, 92;
joy, 30, 204;
unusual action under excitement, 30, 58, 63, 64, 81, 87, 88, 191,
208.
expression of emotion and ideas,--
by use of crests, attitudes, and movements, 8, 9, 11, 16, 26, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 39, 41, 42, 44, 46, 49, 53, 56, 59, 63, 64, 67,
76, 78, 79, 81, 84, 87, 88, 90, 97, 101, 105, 116, 117, 124, 129,
132, 138, 139, 149, 156, 166, 180, 190, 191, 202, 205, 208, 215.
By voice,--
calls of warning, 5, 42, 53, 85, 197, 198, 201, 202, 203, 209;
conversation, 15, 25, 28, 33, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49,
52, 59, 62, 69, 71, 74, 75, 78, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 109, 110,
118, 132, 134, 145, 147, 149, 153, 156, 178, 180, 182, 190, 192;
cries of anger, anxiety, distress, fear, pain, 12, 45, 46, 47,
58