Part 29

Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum), 8, 9, 10 and note.

Hen-hawk, 133; one of the farmer's best friends, 265.

Hepatica. See Liver-leaf.

High-hole, or flicker (Colaptes auratus), matchmaking of, 82, 83; drumming of, 83; unbridled boring propensities, 276, 292; notes of, 82, 83, 165, 167; nest and eggs of, 72, 83, 259.

Hogs of the prairie, 99.

Honey-bee, 14, 30; in a chimney, 68; working on sawdust, 158, 159, 162, 163.

Horses, gentleness towards children, 97; in Kentucky, 228, 233.

Houstonia, or bluets, 19, 20.

Hummingbird, ruby-throated (Trochilus colubris), probing peaches, 286; a curious statement about, 287; nest and eggs of, 65.

Hunters and their victims, 277-281.

Hyla, Pickering's, or peeper, 166, 168, 254.

Illinois, birds observed in, 235, 236.

Indian cucumber root, or medeola, 2, 3.

Indigo-bird, or indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea), song of, 188; nest of, 188.

Invalid, observations of an, 87-109.

Ironweed, 228.

Jay, blue (Cyanocitta cristata), hoarding food, 90, 91; worried by a wren, 92, 128, 130, 236; a devourer of the eggs and young of other birds, 289; mobbed by robins, 289, 290, 293; a male feeding his mate, 298, 299, 300; notes of, 128, 299; nest and eggs of, 92, 128, 298, 299.

Jefferies, Richard, a reporter of nature, 207; his Wild Life, 207; a sympathetic spectator of nature, not an observer, 211; his Gamekeeper at Home, 211; his Amateur Poacher, 211; his My Old Village, 211; quotation from, 211-213.

Jewel-weed, 28, 29.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 204, 205; on scorpions and swallows, 251.

Joint-snake. See Snake, glass.

Journal, keeping a, 155-158.

Junco. See Snowbird.

Kentucky, the journey into, 221-223; the blue-grass region of, 223-234; the birds of, 234-239; Mammoth Cave, 241-250.

Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), 293; nest of, 70, 259, 260.

Kingfisher, belted (Ceryle alcyon), nest and eggs of, 65.

Kingfisher, English, 65; eggs of, 65.

Knott, Governor, 238.