Birds, simultaneous action in flight, 143, 144.

Calf, 138.
Cat, nursing a young woodchuck, 131, 132;
catching red squirrels, 137.
Chipmunk, 10;
its winter underground and reappearance in the spring, 15, 16;
courting, 16;
a solitary creature, 16, 18;
nervousness of, 16, 18;
chipping and clucking, 16, 17;
storing food, 17, 18, 23, 31, 137;
adventures with cats, 18-21;
digging its hole, 21, 22;
furnishing the house, 22;
food of, 23, 31;
an evidence of sociability, 23, 24;
an adventure with a weasel, 24-26;
attack by a shrike, 27, 28;
eating strawberries, 29, 30;
a game of tag, 30;
never more than one jump from home, 30;
shifting quarters, 31;
its fear of the weasel, 83;
its providence, 136, 137.
_Coon._ _See_ Raccoon.

Dog, the churn-dog and the woodchucks, 34-36;
farm-dog and fox, 56, 57, 64, 65;
moisture of his nose, 67, 68;
fight with a weasel, 82, 83;
encounter with a mink, 91, 92;
farm-dog and coon, 94, 95;
coon-dog and coon, 96, 97;
farm-dog and skunk, 139;
a race with a red squirrel, 141-143.
_See_ Foxhound.

Fox, gray, 71.
Fox, red, tracks in the snow, 38, 39, 53, 54, 90, 91;
bark of, 53;
gait of, 54, 126;
the author's first meeting with, 54, 55;
chased by hounds, 56, 62, 64-68;
chased by the farm-dog, 56, 57, 64, 65;
tail of, 57;
method of trapping, 58-61;
behavior when trapped, 61, 139, 140;
farm-yard depredations, 62-64;
devices for eluding the hounds, 65-68;
a method of calling, 68;
burrows and young of, 69, 70;
daylight naps of, 70;
resemblance to the dog, 70, 71;
a young one in the market, 70, 71;
and mink, 90, 91;
beauty and grace of, 126, 139;
humiliation when captured, 139, 140.
Fox, silver-gray, 67.
Foxhound, baying of, 55, 56;
the chase of the fox, 56, 62, 64-68;
moisture of his nose, 67.

Hare, northern _or_ varying, haunts of, 38, 42;
habits of, 41, 42;
tracks in the snow, 42;
two suits of fur, 42, 140;
pursuit and capture by a lynx, 141.

Lynx, 141.

Mink, eating a muskrat, 47;
tracks in the snow, 90, 91, 93;
encounter with a fox, 90, 91;
an enemy of the muskrat, 91;
an encounter with a dog and a mysterious disappearance, 91, 92;
as an eater of fish, 92;
gait of, 93.
Mouse, jumping, habits of, 120;