Part 33

Rabbit, 48.

Rabbit, gray (Lepus sylvaticus), 176; a captive, 182, 183; timidity and witlessness of, 197, 198.

Raccoon (Procyon lotor), 163; a captive, 178, 179; courage of, 196, 197.

Rain, in camp, 48.

Rat, pet squirrel and, 96, 104.

Red-bird, summer, or summer tanager (Piranga rubra), 236; song of, 236.

Rhexia. See Meadow-beauty.

Roads, in Kentucky, 232.

Robin, American (Merula migratoria), 72; courtship of, 78, 79; duels of, 78, 79, 142, 190; singing a brown thrasher's song, 267; mobbing a blue jay, 289, 290; a brood of young fed by a wren, 314, 315; notes of, 57, 159, 163, 166, 167, 267; nest of, 15, 91, 124, 300, 314.

Robin redbreast, song of, 308.

Rocks, of the Catskills, 34, 46, 47.

Rondout Creek, 34, 49.

Rose, wild, 11, 98.

Rudbeckia. See Cone-flower.

Sapsucker, yellow-bellied. See Woodpecker, yellow-bellied.

Scorpion, 251.

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

Shad, 15.

Shad-bush, low, 42.

Shakespeare, quotation from, 316.

Shelby, Colonel, his form, 225.

Shrike (Lanius sp.), and chipmunk, 147, 304-306; song of, 303, 306.

Sink-holes, 229, 230.

Skunk (Mephitis mephitica), a narrow escape, 179; fearlessness of, 196.

Skunk cabbage, 162, 219.

Skylark, on the Hudson, 210; song of, 210.

Slide Mountain, location and description of, 33, 34, 35; ascent of, 37-42; on the summit, 33-54; descent of, 54-56.

Snake, black, fight with a pair, 128-130; rifling nests, 128, 130; swallowing a garter snake, 131, 146, 195, 256; as a rattler, 309.