Part 16

Sparrow:-- chipping, 148, 230. field, 132, 148, 159, 205. lark, 190. song, 128, 199, 278. white-throated, 30, 157, 196, 239, 255.

Spring beauty, 216.

Stone-crop, 216.

Sumach, fragrant, 260.

Swallow:-- barn, 74, 75, 201, 278. rough-winged, 32, 75, 201, 218, 278.

Sweetbrier (Eglantine), 67, 276.

Swift, chimney, 132, 145, 201, 230.

Tanager:-- scarlet, 132, 203. summer, 23, 231, 240, 277.

Thrasher, brown, 30, 51, 126, 148, 196, 198.

Thrush:-- Louisiana water, 66, 126, 203, 219, 230. olive-backed (Swainson), 23, 240, 247, 253, 267. wood, 51, 247.

Trillium:-- grandiflorum, 215. stylosum, 56.

Tufted titmouse, 126, 196, 223.

Tulip-tree, 160, 166, 217.

Violets, 133, 160, 161, 162, 166, 177, 214.

Vireo:-- mountain solitary, 118. red-eyed, 119, 195, 223, 230, 255. warbling, 202, 278. white-eyed, 127. yellow-throated, 196, 230, 255.

Walking fern, 217.

Warbler:-- Blackburnian, 126, 128, 195, 240, 255. blackpoll, 127, 196. black-throated blue, 121, 126, 180, 240, 254, 255. black-throated green, 23, 195, 255. blue yellow-backed (parula), 45, 123, 195, 223, 230, 248, 258, 265. Canadian, 121, 126, 240. Cape May, 261. cerulean, 236, 251, 255, 258, 265, 267, 268, 271, 281. chestnut-sided, 126, 132, 195, 196, 255. golden-winged, 21, 51, 126, 193, 195. hooded, 125, 155, 254. Kentucky, 125, 127, 156. magnolia, 235, 263. myrtle, 127, 195, 196, 255. Nashville, 269. pine, 23, 195. prairie, 23, 127, 206, 230, 266. redpoll, 195. summer yellow (golden), 127, 195, 278. worm-eating, 178, 195.

Whippoorwill, 5, 59, 231, 247.

Woodpecker:-- downy, 196. hairy, 241. golden-winged, 159, 196. pileated, 32, 48, 180, 246, 250. red-headed, 241. yellow-bellied, 180.

Wren:-- Bewick, 126, 148, 198, 202. Carolina, 126, 231. house, 150, 198, 203, 275. winter, 155, 198.

Xanthorrhiza, 189.

FOOTNOTES:

“Do come” and “did come” are proper enough; why not “done come”? And in point of fact, this common Southern use of “done” with the past participle has its warrant in at least two lines of Chaucer: in The Knightes Tale (1055):--

“Hath Theseus doon wrought in noble wise,”

and in The Tale of the Man of Lawe (171):--

“Thise marchants han doon fraught her shippes newe.”

If a ship is “done loaded,” why may not a carriage have “done come”? Idiom is long-lived. As Lowell said of the Yankee vernacular, so doubtless may we say of the Carolinian, that it “often has antiquity and very respectable literary authority on its side.”

If I seem to have said too much about the vulgar question of something to eat, let it be my apology that for a Northern traveler in the rural South the food question is nothing less than the health question. A few years ago, two Boston ornithologists, who had undertaken an extensive tour among the North Carolina mountains, returned before the time. Sickness had driven them home, it turned out; and when they came to publish the result of their investigations, they finished their narrative by saying, “Few Northern digestions could accomplish the feat of properly nourishing a man on native fare.” On my present trip, a resident physician assured me that the native mountaineers, living mostly out of doors and in one of the best of climates, are almost without exception dyspeptics.