Part 19

Bridge-building spiders, 104.

Brooklyn Bridge, 104; "carrier" or "traveller" should have been called "spider," 105; Engineer Farrington crossing, 110.

Brown screech-owl, 151.

Browning, Robert, quoted, 26.

"Bull's-eye" caterpillar, 156.

Bumble-bee, 6, 91.

Butterflies asleep at night, 168.

Butterflies:-- Idalia (Argynnis idalia), Archippus (Danais archippus), yellow swallow-tails (Papilio turnus), 131; Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), 155, 158, 161; "comma" (Vanessa comma), 156, 161, 170; Atalanta (Cynthia atalanta), 158; semicolon (Vanessa interrogationis), 161.

Canterbury bells, 42.

Cardanus quoted, 93.

Careless observation of nature, 185, 186.

Carnation, blue, 46.

Catbrier, 188.

Caterpillars:-- woolly-bear (Arctiadae), 148; "bull's-eye" (Saturnia io), 156; sphinx (Chaerocampa panipenatrix), 241.

Cecropia, 156.

Chinese pink, 73.

Chipmonk, 153.

Chrysalids, 161.

Chrysanthemum, 86, 127.

Cicada, 87, 246; his manner of feeding; how he differs from the grasshopper; the secret of his music, 250; his last song; borne off by his captor, 251; living food, 254; suspended animation, 255.

Clintonia, 239.

Clothes moth (Tineidae), 170.

Clover (Trifolium), four-leaved, 215; nine-leaved, found in groups, 216; possibilities of cultivation, 217; an exceptional find, 218, 219; saying its prayers, 219; lotus, 222.

Cobweb showers, 114; blinding dogs interrupting sport, 114; flakes and rags of, 115; silken streamers, 116; shower in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 120; on Brooklyn Bridge, 121.

Cocoons:--curious, 145; solid to the core, 147; ribs and vertebrae, 149; secret of the hollow, 151; what the pellets were, 152; yielding wasps, 242.

Colors of flowers, laws governing colors and combinations, 44, 45; natural exception to; three primary colors in the hyacinth, Egyptian lotus; sky reflections destroying color, 45.

Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis, A. chrysantha, A. caerulea), puzzling color classification, from white through all shades of red, yellow, and blue, 46.

"Comma." See Butterflies.