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A Florida Sketch-Book · Bradford Torrey — chapter 12 of 12 · ~401 words · public domain

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None the less, it is good to have lived our day and taken our peep at the mighty show. Ten thousand things we may have fretted ourselves about, uselessly or worse. But to have lived in the sun, to have loved natural beauty, to have felt the majesty of trees, to have enjoyed the sweetness of flowers and the music of birds,--so much, at least, is not vanity nor vexation of spirit.

INDEX.

Air-plants, Alligator, Azalea,

Baptisia, Beggar's-ticks, Blackberry, Blackbird, red--wing, Bladderwort, Bluebird, Blue-eyed Grass, Butterworts, Buzzard, turkey,

Calopogon, Carrion Crow (Black Vulture), Catbird, Cedar-bird, Cedar, red, Chat, yellow-breasted, Cherokee Rose, Cherry, wild, Chewink (Towhee):-- red-eyed, white--eyed, Chickadee, Carolina, Chimney Swift, Chuck-will's-widow, Clematis Baldwinii, Clover, buffalo, Cloudberry, Coot (Fulica americana), Coquina Clam, Coreopsis, Cormorant, Crab-apple, Creeper, black-and-white, Cross-vine, Crow, Cuckoo, yellow-billed, Cypress-tree,

Dabchick, Dove:-- Carolina, ground, Duck, wood,

Eagle, bald, Egret:-- great white, little white,

Fish-hawk, Flicker (Golden-winged Woodpecker), Flowering Dogwood, Flycatchers:-- Acadian, crested, kingbird, phoebe, wood pewee, Fringe-bush, Frogs,

Gallinule:-- Florida, purple, Gannet, Gnatcatcher, blue-gray, Golden club, Goldenrod, Grackle, boat-tailed, Grebe, pied-billed, Grosbeak:-- cardinal, blue, Gull:-- Bonaparte's, ring-billed,

Hawk:-- fish, marsh, red-shouldered, sparrow, swallow-tailed, Heron:-- great blue, great white (or Egret), green, little blue, Louisiana, night (black-crowned), Honeysuckle:-- scarlet, white, Houstonia, round-leaved, Humming-bird, ruby-throated, Hypoxis,

Iris versicolor,

Jay:-- Florida, Florida blue, Judas-tree,

Killdeer Plover, Kingbird, Kingfisher, Kinglet, ruby--crowned, Kite, fork-tailed, Krigia,

Lantana, Lark, meadow, Leptopoda, Live-oak, Lizards, Lobelia Feayana, Loggerhead Shrike, Lygodesmia,

Martin, purple, Maryland Yellow-throat, Mocking-bird,

Mullein, Myrtle Bird. See Warbler.

Night-hawk, Nuthatch, brown-headed,

Orange, wild, Oriole, orchard, Osprey. See Fish-Hawk. Oven-bird, Oxalis, yellow,

Papaw, Paroquet, Partridge-berry, Pelican:-- brown, white, Persimmon, Phoebe, Pipewort, Poison Ivy, Poppy, Mexican,

Quail,

Rail:-- Carolina, clapper, king, Redbird (Cardinal Grosbeak),

"Ricebird". Robin,

Salvia lyrata, Sanderling, Sandpiper:-- solitary, spotted, Sassafras, Schrankia, Senecio, Shrike, loggerhead, Sow Thistle, Snakebird (Water Turkey), Sparrow:-- chipping, field, grasshopper (yellow-winged), pine-wood, savanna, song, white-crowned, white-throated, Spiderwort, St. Peter's-wort, Strawberry, Swallow:-- barn, rough-winged, tree (white-bellied), Swift, chimney,

Tanager, summer, Tern, Thorns, Thrasher (Brown Thrush), Thrush:-- hermit, Northern water, Louisiana water, Titlark, Titmouse:-- Carolina, tufted, Towhee. See Chewink. Turkey,

Vaccinium, arboreum, Venus's Looking-glass (Specularia), Verbena, Violets, Vireo:-- red-eyed, solitary, white-eyed, yellow-throated, Virginia creeper, Vulture (Carrion Crow),

Warbler:-- black-throated green, blue yellow-backed, myrtle (yellow-rumped), palm (yellow redpoll), pine, prairie, yellow-throated (Dendroica dominica),

Water Lily, Water Thrush:-- Louisiana, Northern, Water Turkey (Snakebird), Wood Pewee, Woodpecker:-- downy, golden-winged (flicker), ivory-billed, pileated, red-bellied, red-cockaded, red-headed, Wren:-- Carolina (mocking), house, long-billed marsh, winter,

Yellow Jessamine, Yellow-legs (Totanus flavipes),

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