Part 31

Mimicry, 308, 309.

Mimulus, purple, or monkey-flower, 29.

Mink (Putorius vison), 103, 104; tracks of, 126, 127, 309.

Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos), 239, 302; song of, 308.

Monarda, or bee-balm, 11.

Monkey-flower. See Mimulus.

Moose (Alce alces), pursuit of a, 280, 281.

Mountain-ash, 42.

Mountain-climbing, in the Catskills, 33-60.

Mountains, their meaning to Oriental minds, 44, 45.

Mt. Graham, 43.

Mount Sterling, 223.

Mt. Wittenberg, 35, 38, 56, 57.

Mouse, meadow, 256; crossing a lake, 309-311.

Mouse, white-footed, a mother with her young, 311.

Mouse-ear, 21-23.

Muskrat (Fiber zibethicus), 103, 104; in a doorway, 177, 178, 303.

Nature, the language of, 118; various forms of the love of, 203, 204; the real lover of, 205, 206; the passion for Nature not a mere curiosity about her, 207, 208; the creative touch of the imagination needed in descriptions of, 213, 215; fresh impressions of, 215-220; many dramas played at once on her stage, 268; all things to all men, 269, 270; the gradations in, 307-309.

Neversink, the, 34.

Newt, water, 162.

Night, Jefferies on, 213; Whitman on, 213, 214; in Senancour's Obermann, 214, 215.

Nightingale, song of, 308.

Oaks, English, 212.

Obermann, by Étienne Pivert de Senancour, quotation from, 214, 215.

Observation, the gift of, 90; alertness of mind necessary in, 118, 286; a translation of nature's language into human speech necessary in, 118; on the part of wild creatures, 119; selective and detective, 208, 211; an unbiased mind necessary in, 252; specialized, 252, 253; all possible sources of error to be taken into account in, 253; a steady and patient as well as sharp eye necessary in, 262-269, 286; love of nature the first step in, 283; the critical habit of mind necessary in, 291.

Oriole, Baltimore (Icterus galbula), 236-238, 286; nest and eggs of, 65, 66, 124, 237, 238.

Osmunda fern, royal, 16.

Osprey, American, or fish hawk (Pandion haliaëtus carolinensis), regular habits of an osprey, 172, 173, 257.