Part 27

Charming nook, a, 124.

Chat, long-tailed, yellow-breasted, 40, 232. alertness of, 240. bewitching, 241. comes in sight, 237. eccentric, 232. egg stolen, 50. farewell, 51. first sight of, 45. hard to study, 47. haunts of, 241. home of, 246. humor, 40. manners, 44, 46, 238, 239, 240. nest, 47, 48. on hand, 245. saucy, 41. secret of invisibility, 239. studies me, 254, triumphant, 257. voice, 40, 43, 45, 236, 237, 239.

Chat, the madam: interviews me, 255. keeps her mate up to duty, 249. manners, 248. squawks, 254. wonderful acting, 256.

Chewink, or towhee bunting: babies, 31. green-tailed towhee, 210. husky cry, 30. manners, 28, 29. nest, 30. song, 29.

Cheyenne Cañon, 15. solitary possession of, 75.

Cheyenne Mountain, 43.

Chipmunk, 78.

Cinderella among the flowers, a, 60.

Cliff-dwellers in the cañon, 70.

Colorado, a restful way to see, 13. the wonderland, 14.

Cotton storm, a, 17.

Cottonwoods, in the, 17.

Cuckoo, 157, 231.

Doll as a bogy, 103.

Dragonflies in Utah, 263.

English or house sparrow: as a climber, 110. autocrat, 129. in Utah, 261. robbing blackbirds, 100. robbing red-headed woodpecker, 110.

Feast of flowers, the, 52.

Flicker a character, 106.

Flowers: abundance of bloom, 54. anemone, 61. cactus, 56, 62, 74. castilleia, 67. cleome, 67. columbine, 58, 67. cyclamen, 67. extermination by cattle, 208. extermination by tourists, 68. geranium, 58. gilia, 64. golden prince's feather, 65. gummy and clinging stems, 66. harebells, 67. in a niche, 73. in Kansas, 52. mariposa lily, 65. mentzelia, 60. mertensia, 67. Mexican poppy, 62. milky juice, 66. moccasin plant, 54, 75. nasturtium, self-willed, 149. ox-eye daisy, 66. painter of, 68. paradise of, 53. pentstemon, 58. pink stranger, 62. primrose, 58, 67. roses, 58, 63, 75. spiderwort, 52. symphony in green, 55. varieties, 53, 57. vetches, 67. wild garden, 57. wild mignonette, 62. yellow daisies, 52. yucca, 55, 62.

Gates, idiosyncrasies of, 220.

Getting up in the morning, 95.

Glen, a beautiful, 155. frightened out of, 169.

Grasshopper, a clacking, 266.

Grave of "H. H.," 90, 91.

Great-crested flycatcher, 167.

Gull, the herring, 211. following the plow, 213. flight, 215. manners, 213. nesting, 216. nooning, 215. penalty for killing, 212. sent to the "Chosen People," 212. value of, 216.

Horned lark: horns, 36. nest, 36. song, 35.

Horse, a scared, and result, 228. drive me away, 257.