INDEX.

VOLUME IV.—JULY TO DECEMBER, 1898.

A Bloodless Sportsman, 39

A Book By the Brook, 39

Acorn, Thirty Miles for an, 29

African Folk Lore, 12

Ah Me!, 113

Alaska, Birds of, 95

All Nature, 37

Almond, Flowering (Amygdalus communis), 193-5

Animals and Music, 159

Animals' Rights, 225

Animals, Some Propensities of, 81

Animals, Talk of, 140

Animals and Water, 84

Animal World, In the, 136

Antelope, The Pigmy (Antilope pigmea), 94-95

Apple Blossoms, 36

Armadillo as a Pet, 12

Armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta), 146-7

Autumn, 132

Azamet, the Hermit, and His Dumb Friends, 33

Bat, Black (Scotophilus carolinensis) } 170-1 Bat, Red (Atalapha noveboracensis)

Bats, Tame, 168

Birds, 163

Bird, A Little, 162

Bird Courtship, 164

Birds Foretell Marriage, 16

Birds in the Garden and Orchard, 153

Birds in the Iliad, 234

Birds Mentioned in the Bible, 48

Bird of Paradise, The King (Cincinnurus regius), 124-7

Birds, Sleeping Places of, 164

Birds and Animals of the Philippines, 48

Birds, Reasoning Powers of, 43

Birds in Storms, 163

Bobolink's Song, 61

Butterfly, The, 142

Butterflies, 102

Butterflies (illustrations), 23, 63, 103, 143, 183, 223

Butterflies, How Protected, 62

Butterfly Trade, 22

Butterflies Love to Drink, 182

Cactus (Echinocadus le Contii) (Mamillaria Sheerii), 210-11

Christmas Trees, 220

Color Photographs and Conversation Lessons, 194

Constantinople, From, 158

Count? Can Animals, 180

Country, A Gameless, 229

Dolphin, The Bottlenose (Tursiops tursio), 134-5

Doves of Venice, 100

Ears, 121

Eyes, 117

Farewell, The Turkey's, 162

Fern, The Petrified, 83

Flowers, The Death of the, 189

Flowers, The Use of, 34

Fox, The American Gray (Vulpes virginianus), 105-7

Fox, The Red (Vulpes fulvus), 66-9

Golden-eye, American (Glaucionetta clangula americana), 230-1

Golden-rod (Solidago Virga-aurea), 154-5

Grouse, Prairie Sharp-tailed (Pediocætes phasianellus campestris), 166-167

Gull, Herring (Larus argentatus Smithsonianus), 86-7

Hawk, Red-shouldered (Buteo lineatus), 96-9

Hen, Prairie (Tympanucus americanus), 18-19

Humming-birds (1 Lampornis gramineus) (2 Pelasophora anais) (3 White-tailed), 216-19

Instinct and Reason, 73

Lion, African (Felis leo), 206-7

Loon, The (Urinator imber), 58-9

Midsummer, 65

Miscellany, 109

Mocking-birds at Tampa, Florida, 61

Myths and the Mistletoe, 212

Nature's Adjustments, 41

Nature's Grotesque, 149

Nature Study and Nature's Rights, 176

Nature, The Voice of, 136

Nature's Orchestra, 161

Ocelot, The (Felis pardalis), 30-1

October, 157

Otter, American (Lutra canadensis), 172-5

Peccary (Dicotyles torquatus), 128-31

Pet, A Household, 52

Pigeon, The Passenger, 25

Plover, The Golden (Charadrius dominicus), 178-9

Porcupine, Canadian (Erethizon dorsatus), 186-7

Puffin, The Tufted (Lunda cirrhata), 138-9

Rabbit, The American (Lepus sylvaticus), 26-7

Raccoon, American (Procyon lotor), 90-1

Red Head (Aythya americana), 150-1

Sandpiper, The Least (Tringa minutilla), 70-1

Sandpiper, The Pectoral (Tringa maculata), 114-15

Secrets of an Old Garden, 16

Seminary for Teaching Birds How to Sing, 78

Sheep, Mountain (Ovis montana), 74-5

Silk Worm, The (Bombyx mori), 222-3

Skunk, American (Mephitis varians), 233

Skylark, The, 176

Snipe, Wilson's (Gallinago delicata), 6-7

Snowflakes, 229

Songsters, About the, 21

Sparrow, New Champion for, 135

Squirrels, Flying (Pteromys volucella), 214-15

Squirrel, Fox (Sciurus cinereus), 54-6

Squirrel, American Gray (Sciurus carolinensis), 110-11

Squirrel, The Hunted, 119

Squirrel, Red (Sciurus hudsonius), 14-15

Squirrel Road, The, 44

Squirrel Town, 4

Summary, 40, 80, 120, 160, 200, 238

Symbol, A, 208

Tern, Caspian (Sterna tschograva), 190-1

Tern, The Common (Sterna hirundo), 46-7

Useful Birds of Prey, 88

Voices, 201

Vulture, California (Pseudogryphus californianus), 226-7

Walk, A Winter's, 221

Wild Birds in London, 92

Wolf, Black (Canis occidentalis), 8-11

Wolf, Prairie (Canis latrans), 50-1

Wren, The Envious, 185