INDEX
Air-plants
Alligator
Azalea
Baptisia
Beggar's-ticks
Blackberry
Blackbird red—wing
Bladderwort
Bluebird
Blue-eyed Grass
Butterworts
Buzzard turkey
Calopogon
Carrion Crow (Black Vulture)
Catbird
Cedar-bird
Cedar, red
Chat, yellow-breasted
Cherokee Rose
Cherry, wild
Chewink (Towhee):—
red-eyed
white—eyed
Chickadee, Carolina
Chimney Swift
Chuck-will's-widow
Clematis Baldwinii
Clover, buffalo
Cloudberry
Coot (Fulica americana)
Coquina Clam
Coreopsis
Cormorant
Crab-apple
Creeper, black-and-white
Cross-vine
Crow
Cuckoo, yellow-billed
Cypress-tree
Dabchick
Dove:—
Carolina
ground
Duck, wood
Eagle, bald
Egret:—
great white
little white
Fish-hawk
Flicker (Golden-winged Woodpecker)
Flowering Dogwood
Flycatchers:—
Acadian
crested
kingbird
phoebe
wood pewee
Fringe-bush
Frogs
Gallinule:—
Florida
purple
Gannet
Gnatcatcher, blue-gray
Golden club
Goldenrod
Grackle, boat-tailed
Grebe, pied-billed
Grosbeak:—
cardinal
blue
Gull:—
Bonaparte's
ring-billed
Hawk:—
fish
marsh
red-shouldered
sparrow
swallow-tailed
Heron:—
great blue
great white (or Egret)
green
little blue
Louisiana
night (black-crowned)
Honeysuckle:—
scarlet
white
Houstonia, round-leaved
Humming-bird, ruby-throated
Hypoxis
Iris versicolor
Jay:—
Florida
Florida blue
Judas-tree
Killdeer Plover
Kingbird
Kingfisher
Kinglet, ruby—crowned
Kite, fork-tailed
Krigia
Lantana
Lark meadow
Leptopoda
Live-oak
Lizards
Lobelia Feayana
Loggerhead Shrike
Lygodesmia
Martin, purple
Maryland Yellow-throat
Mocking-bird
Mullein
Myrtle Bird See Warbler
Night-hawk
Nuthatch, brown-headed
Orange wild
Oriole, orchard
Osprey See Fish-Hawk
Oven-bird
Oxalis, yellow
Papaw
Paroquet
Partridge-berry
Pelican:—
brown
white
Persimmon
Phoebe
Pipewort
Poison Ivy
Poppy, Mexican
Quail
Rail:—
Carolina
clapper
king
Redbird (Cardinal Grosbeak)
"Ricebird"
Robin
Salvia lyrata
Sanderling
Sandpiper:—
solitary
spotted
Sassafras
Schrankia
Senecio
Shrike, loggerhead
Sow Thistle
Snakebird (Water Turkey)
Sparrow:—
chipping
field
grasshopper (yellow-winged)
pine-wood
savanna
song
white-crowned
white-throated
Spiderwort
St Peter's-wort
Strawberry
Swallow:—
barn
rough-winged
tree (white-bellied)
Swift, chimney
Tanager, summer
Tern
Thorns
Thrasher (Brown Thrush)
Thrush:—
hermit
Northern water
Louisiana water
Titlark
Titmouse:—
Carolina
tufted
Towhee See Chewink
Turkey
Vaccinium, arboreum
Venus's Looking-glass (Specularia)
Verbena
Violets
Vireo:—
red-eyed
solitary
white-eyed
yellow-throated
Virginia creeper
Vulture (Carrion Crow)
Warbler:—
black-throated green
blue yellow-backed
myrtle (yellow-rumped)
palm (yellow redpoll)
pine
prairie
yellow-throated (Dendroica dominica)
Water Lily
Water Thrush:—
Louisiana
Northern
Water Turkey (Snakebird)
Wood Pewee
Woodpecker:—
downy
golden-winged (flicker)
ivory-billed
pileated
red-bellied
red-cockaded
red-headed
Wren:—
Carolina (mocking)
house
long-billed marsh
winter
Yellow Jessamine
Yellow-legs (Totanus flavipes)
Footnote 1: [(return)]
Two races of the pine-wood sparrow are recognized by ornithologists, Pucaea aestivalis and P. aestivalis bachmanii, and both of them have been found in Florida; but, if I understand the matter right, Pucaea aestivalis is the common and typical Florida bird.
Footnote 2: [(return)]
Bulletin on the Nuttall Ornithological Club, vol. vii. p. 98.
Footnote 3: [(return)]
As it was, I did not find Dendroica virens in Florida. On my way home, in Atlanta, April 20, I saw one bird in a dooryard shade-tree.
Footnote 4: [(return)]
I have heard this useful word all my life, and now am surprised to find it wanting in the dictionaries.
Footnote 5: [(return)]
I speak as if I had accepted my own study of the manual as conclusive. I did for the time being, but while writing this paragraph I bethought myself that I might be in error, after all. I referred the question, therefore, to a friend, a botanist of authority. "No wonder the red cedars of Florida puzzled you," he replied. "No one would suppose at first that they were of the same species as our New England savins. The habit is entirely different; but botanists have found no characters by which to separate them, and you are safe in considering them as Juniperus Virginiana."
Footnote 6: [(return)]
My suggestion, I now discover,—since this paper was first printed,—was some years too late. Mr. Ridgway, in his Manual of North American Birds (1887), had already described a subspecies of Florida redwings under the name of Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti. Whether my New Smyrna birds should come under that title cannot be told, of course, in the absence of specimens; but on the strength of the song I venture to think it highly probable.
Footnote 7: [(return)]
I have called the ruin here spoken of a "sugar mill" for no better reason than because that is the name commonly applied to it by the residents of the town. When this sketch was written, I had never heard of a theory since broached in some of our Northern newspapers,—I know not by whom,—that the edifice in question was built as a chapel, perhaps by Columbus himself! I should be glad to believe it, and can only add my hope that he will be shown to have built also the so-called sugar mill a few miles north of New Smyrna, in the Dunlawton hammock behind Port Orange. In that, to be sure, there is still much old machinery, but perhaps its presence would prove no insuperable objection to a theory so pleasing. In matters of this kind, much depends upon subjective considerations; in one sense, at least, "all things are possible to him that believeth." For my own part, I profess no opinion. I am neither an archaeologist nor an ecclesiastic, and speak simply as a chance observer.
Footnote 8: [(return)]
The Auk, vol. v. p. 273.
Footnote 9: [(return)]
But let no enthusiast set out to walk from one city to the other on the strength of what is here written. After this sketch was first printed—in The Atlantic Monthly—a gentleman who ought to know whereof he speaks sent me word that my informants were all of them wrong—that the road does not run to St. Augustine. For myself, I assert nothing. As my colored boy said, "I ain't tried it."
Footnote 10: [(return)]
He did not say "upon" any more than Northern white boys do.
Footnote 11: [(return)]
By-Ways and Bird-Notes, p. 20.