disposition of, 268;
in Bermuda, 268;
lines on, 268.

Crow, white-necked African, 135, 136.

Crows and shell-fish, 2.

Cuckoos, 249;
eating birds' eggs, 264;
killed by robins, 264.

Darwin, Charles, 65, 67, 73, 75, 76, 79, 82, 83, 87,
127, 136, 149, 177, 198.

December, the month when Nature closes her doors, 47.

Deer, 84, 85, 185.

Dipper. _See_ Water ouzel.

Dogs,
imitativeness of, 66;
show gleams of reason, 76, 85, 88;
feelings of shame, guilt, and revenge ascribed to, 144, 145;
carrying a stick through a fence, 164-166;
language of, 188;
Maeterlinck on, 192, 193;
John Muir's story of a dog, 193, 194;
Egerton Young's book about, 194;
hiding a bone, 205;
companionableness of, 205, 206, 211, 221;
rational intelligence in, 223-225;
partake of the master's nature, 224;
story of a pointer, 224, 225.

Dove, turtle, _or_ mourning dove (_Zenaidura macroura_),
occupying a robin's nest, 7.

Duck. _See_ Mallard.

Duck, eider. _See_ American eider.

Duck, wild, wounded, 213.

Duck, wood (_Aix sponsa_), nest, eggs, and young of, 21-23.

Eagle, 103.

Eagle, bald (_Haliaeetus leucocephalus_), 72, 213.

Ears, movements of, 95.

Eider, American (_Somateria dresseri_), killing mussels, 180-182.

Elephants, 76;
protecting themselves from flies, 138;
an incredible story, 145, 146.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24;
his lines on the sparrow's song, 32, 102.

Evolution, 170, 171.

Fabre, the French naturalist, 158.

Farm, the author's, 101.

Fear,
instinctive, 74-76;
use of, 89;
indiscriminating, 89;
panics, 90.

Finch, purple (_Carpodacus purpureus_),
song flight of, 44;
song of, 44.

Fish and glass, 127.

Flocks, communication in, 96-98.

Fly, mimicking the honey-bee, 250.

Flycatcher, great crested (_Myiarchus crinitus_),
nesting-habits of, 17-19.

_Forest and Stream_, 69, 93.

Fox,
capturing a rabbit, 8, 72;
poisoning stories of, 105;
stories of crab-catching, 106, 107;
intelligence of, 141, 142;
misinterpreted stories of, 199;
and deadfall, 222, 223;
cunning of, 223.

Frog, wood, hibernation of, 48.

Frogs, hibernation of, 49.

Froude, 2.

Fruits, colors of, 251-254.

Golden-eye (_Clangula clangula americana_),
young leaving nest, 22.

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