Part 25

Brooks. See Trout streams.

Bugloss, viper's, or blue-weed, 29, 30.

Bullfrog, 255.

Bumblebee, 14; visiting the closed gentian, 27 and note; drones, 269.

Bunting, black-throated, or dickcissel (Spiza americana), 239; song of, 239.

Bunting, indigo. See Indigo-bird.

Bunting, snow, or snowflake (Plectrophenax nivalis), 200.

Calf, fear in the young, 195.

Calypso, the orchid, 1, 2.

Cambium layer, the, 158.

Camp, repairing, 47, 52; rain in, 48; a cold night in, 52-54.

Camping, in the southern Catskills, 33-60.

Campion, bladder, 29.

Canary, 96, 97, 191, 305.

Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), 239.

Cardinal-flower, 11, 29.

Carlyle, Thomas, a woman's opinion of, 108, 109; quotation from, 297.

Catbird (Galeoscoptes carolinensis), 142; song of, 308.

Cats, chipmunks and, 148-150; red squirrels and, 195.

Catskills, mountaineering in the southern, 33-60; the rocks of, 34, 46, 47; the water of, 40.

Cattle, backwoods, 58, 59.

Cedar-bird, or cedar waxwing (Ampelis cedrorum), 72, 200; nest and eggs of, 70, 72.

Charming, the power of, 255-257.

Chat, yellow-breasted (Icteria virens), 239.

Chelone, or turtle-head, 29.

Cherry pits, 151, 152.

Chewink, or towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), 14.

Chickadee (Parus atricapillus), 121; young leaving the nest, 292, 293; family life continued after the nest is left, 293, 294; a fatal malady, 294; a male feeding his mate, 298; notes of, 293, 294; nest of, 70, 257, 258, 292, 293, 298, 299.