8, 41-43, 65.

Magpies, 9.

Mammoth Mountain, 216, 242.

Manzanita (_Arctostaphylos_), 88, 89;
berries, 259.

Meadows, three kinds of, 158, 159;
glacier, 229, 230.

Merced River, 189;
North Fork of, 25;
camp on, 32-74.

Merced Valley, 13, 115.

Mono Desert, 226.

Mono Lake, 214, 226, 239;
flowers around, 228.

Mono Trail, 104, 109, 115, 195-213.

Moon, startling effect of, 221, 222.

Moraine Lake, 224, 225.

Moraines, 102, 216, 224, 240, 248.

Mosquitoes, Sierra, 169.

Mount Dana, 199, 230, 233, 234, 239, 242.

Mount Gibbs, 199, 242.

Mount Hoffman, 230;
height of, 149;
watershed, 150;
flowers, 151, 152, 158, 160;
hemlocks and pines, 151, 152;
crystals, 153;
strange dove-colored bird, 176.

Mount Lyell, 198, 253.

Mutton, exclusive diet of, 76.

_Neotoma_, 71-73.

Nevada Canon, 182.

Nevada Fall, 187, 188, 207.

North Dome, 131, 134;
strange experience on, 178, 179.

Oak, blue (_Quercus Douglasii_), 8, 15.

Oak, California black (_Quercus Californica_), 15, 257.

Oak, dwarf (_Quercus chrysolepis_), 161.

Oak, goldcup, 50, 187, 257.

Oak, mountain live, 38.

Oak, poison, 26.

_Oreortyx ricta_, 174, 175.

Pictures, inadequate, 131.

Pika, 154, 155.

Pilot Peak Ridge, 32, 57, 65, 67, 84.

Pine, dwarf (_Pinus albicaulis_), 152, 248;
as fuel, 221.

Pine, mountain (_Pinus monticola_), 152.

Pine, Sabine, 12, 13, 263;
cones, 12.

Pine, silver, 52.

Pine, sugar, 17, 18, 51, 88, 90, 93;
cones, 50.

Pine, two-leaved or tamarack, 99, 110, 162, 163, 257, 258.

Pine, yellow, 15, 51, 52, 88, 93, 258;
cones, 17, 18.

Pino Blanco, 13.

Poppy, bush (_Dendromecon rigidum_), 39.

Porcupine Creek, 121, 206.

Portuguese shepherds, 206, 207, 208-10.

_Pseudotsuga Douglasii_, 93.

_Pteris aquilina_, 40, 41.

Quail, mountain (_Oreortyx ricta_), 174, 175.

Quails, 9.

_Quercus Californica_, 15, 257.

_Quercus chrysolepis_, 161.

_Quercus Douglasii_, 8, 15.

Rabbits, cottontail, 9, 227.

Raindrop, history of, 125-27.

Range of Light, 236, 264.

Rat, wood (_Neotoma_), 71-73.

Rattlesnakes, 9;
dog bitten by one, 63.

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