Part 28

House wren, the Western, 24. babies, 27, 28. disturbed, 27. manners, 24. nest, 25. song, 27. strange cry, 25.

Humming-bird: collecting spiders, 271. different from the Eastern, 38. dislike of heat, 272. in cañon, 76. last glimpse, 273. manners, 269. nesting, 272. noisy, 38. precious beak, 271. scolding, 42. surveillance, 40. the broad-tailed, 268. toilet of, 271.

Ideal retreat, an, 247.

In a pasture, 207.

In the Middle Country, 93.

In the Rocky Mountains, 1.

Irrigation vagaries, 242, 245, 267.

Kansas, 7.

Kitchen, an al fresco, 243.

Kitten, a lost, 39.

Lazuli-painted finch, 261. anxiety of mother, 263. babies, 267. manners, 262, 265. nest, 262. nest destroyed, 268.

Magpie: discover us, 225. manners, 216, 219, 224. nest, 223. nursery, 230. reception to us, 227. search for nest, 216. song, 224.

Meadow-lark, the Western, 249. cry, 120. song, 24, 32, 34.

Morning tramp, a, 156.

Mosquito, absence of, 20. a lonely, 21.

Mourning dove, 103. headquarters, 199. joke of, 200. manners, 196, 198, 199. nest, 198. silence of, 201, 204. song, 195, 204. talk, 204. wing whistle, 204. young, interview with, 201. young, manners of, 197, 201.

Oak-brush, the, 222.

On the lawn, 259.

Orchard, an old, 250.

Orchard oriole: a later view, 191. anxiety of parents, 185. baby cries, 186. babies' first flight, 189, 190. call from a Baltimore, 188. called by nestlings, 184. manners, 186, 190. nest, 184, 192. song of female, 191. song of male, 192.

Park, a deserted, 42.

Pewee, Western wood, 22. nest, 38. song, 22, 37. voice, 37.

Purple grackle, the, 96. discouraging them, 104. eating, 100. greeting to me, 97. husky tones, 98. humor, 99. no repose of manner, 101. plumage, 99. robbed by sparrows, 100. strange utterances, 98. treatment of young, 101. young, 98, 101, 102. young, persistence of, 102.

Red-headed woodpecker: autocrat, 106. eating corn, 109. protecting the place, 110. treatment of cardinal grosbeak, 108. treatment of doll, 104.

Rest, to find, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11.

Robin, absence of, 28. and corn, 103. and doll, 103. not plentiful, 250. reception of snake, 250.

Rocky Mountains: a pasture on, 207. Cheyenne range, 235. Wasatch range, 233, 234.

Sage-bush, 233.