INDEX
Adder’s-tongue, [19], [29].
Anemone, [6].
Azalea, Lapland, [36].
Bayberry, [101].
Bellwort, [6].
Birch, yellow, [15], [72].
Bittern, least, [126].
Blackbird, Brewer’s, [202].
crow, [129].
red-winged, [86], [124], [139].
rusty, [66].
Bluebird, [8], [54], [65], [76], [86], [132], [150], [156].
chestnut-backed, [181], [186].
Western, [279].
Butterfly, clouded-sulphur, [61].
red admiral, [28].
Buzzard, turkey, [86], [95], [124].
Cactus, giant, [199].
Callicarpa, [99].
Catbird, [86], [100], [107], [129], [130].
Chewink, Arctic, [178].
red-eyed, [108], [140].
white-eyed, [140], [146].
Chickadee, black-capped, [21], [64], [66], [79], [86], [139].
Hudsonian, [37].
Chuck-will’s-widow, [154].
Clintonia, [4].
Coccoloba, [118].
Cocoa plum, [115], [122].
Cormorant, Florida, [84], [124].
Coyote, [224].
Cranberry, mountain, [23].
Crane, sandhill, [293].
Creosote bush, [200], [206].
Crescentia, [112].
Crinum, [126].
Crossbill, red, [63], [78].
Crow, American, [79], [157].
carrion, [86], [124].
fish, [85], [97], [129].
Cypress, [122].
Diapensia, [35].
Dove, ground, [86], [130].
Dutchman’s-breeches, [19], [29].
Eagle, bald, [141].
golden, [220].
Evening primrose, [200], [247].
Eyebright, [35].
Ficus aurea, [99].
Finch, Lincoln, [74], [192].
purple, [8], [66], [78].
Flicker, [85], [86], [129].
red-shafted, [178].
Flycatcher, Arizona crested, [271].
crested, [108], [130].
olive-sided, [63].
scissor-tailed, [259].
vermilion, [266], [286].
Gallinule, Florida, [149].
Gnatcatcher, blue-gray, [85], [86], [108].
plumbeous, [219].
Goldfinch, American, [41], [61], [78].
Goldfinch, Mexican, [178].
Grackle, boat-tailed, [85], [129], [130].
Grosbeak, cardinal, [87], [104], [107], [108], [129], [130], [134], [139], [149], [156].
rose-breasted, [5], [10], [21].
Grouse, [11], [21], [70], [78].
Gumbo-limbo, [100].
Hawk, desert sparrow, [184], [292].
sharp-shinned, [38], [41], [69].
sparrow, [41], [94].
Western red-tailed, [219].
Heron, great blue, [141].
Louisiana, [124].
Hickory, [148].
Hornbeam, [145].
House finch, [180], [188], [199].
Huisache, [162].
Hummingbird, black-chinned, [284], [291].
Costa, [234].
ruby-throated, [86], [130].
Jay, blue, [67], [79], [86], [108], [130].
Florida, [93], [140].
Jessamine, yellow, [137], [149].
Junco, intermediate, [185].
Kingfisher, [124].
Kinglet, golden-crowned, [64], [71].
ruby-crowned, [65], [66], [78], [107], [130], [238].
Lark bunting, [191], [194].
Lupine, [200], [247].
Mangrove, [98], [121].
Martin, purple, [124].
Meadow lark, [156], [183].
Mockingbird, [85], [86], [87], [95], [100], [104], [107], [109], [129], [130], [139], [156].
Western, [254], [292].
Moon-flower, [88].
Morning-glory, [88], [97].
Nonpareil, [105], [108], [129], [130], [131], [134].
Nuthatch, brown-headed, [150], [156].
Canadian (red-breasted), [7], [41], [60], [62], [64], [66], [71], [79].
Carolina (white-breasted), [123].
Ocotillo, [199].
Orchids, [98].
Oriole, Baltimore, [130].
Osprey, [124], [141].
Oven-bird, [21], [107].
Pavonia, [111].
Pelican, brown, [140].
Phainopepla, [276], [289].
Phlox, Drummond, [137], [153].
Phœbe, [86], [87], [104], [108], [130], [131].
black, [196], [240].
Say’s, [181], [255].
Pithecolobium, [98].
Plover, killdeer, [124].
Poppy, California, [247], [249].
Porcupine, [27].
Pyrrhuloxia, Arizona, [185], [274].
Texas, [274].
Rabbits, [227].
Rail, Carolina, [149].
Raven, [212].
white-necked, [182], [191], [211], [219], [221].
Redstart, [64].
painted, [286].
Road-runner, [163], [259], [284].
Robin, [8], [54], [66], [78], [86].
Western, [279].
Rose, Cherokee, [136], [154].
Sandwort, Greenland, [23].
Sapsucker, yellow-bellied, [59], [110].
Seven-year apple, [116].
Shrike, loggerhead, [95], [109].
Siskin, [21], [63], [78].
Snowbird, [21], [41], [62], [65], [66], [69], [78].
Solitaire, [289].
Sparrow, Cassin, [263].
chipping, [66].
desert, [210].
pine-wood, [156].
sage, [211].
savanna, [9].
song, [54], [65], [66], [75], [78], [138].
vesper, [75], [78].
white-crowned, [14], [74], [78], [192].
white-throated, [5], [8], [11], [22], [26], [58], [62], [64], [65], [66], [139].
Swallow, barn, [8].
tree, [86], [95], [124].
Sweet-bay, [146].
Sweet-gum, [136], [145].
Swift, white-throated, [273].
Tanager, summer, [155].
Thrasher, Bendire, [252], [255].
brown, [138], [156].
crissal, [254].
Palmer, [209], [251], [255].
sage, [207], [255].
Thrush, Bicknell’s, [21], [37].
hermit, [8], [66], [78], [130].
Swainson’s, [21], [27].
Titmouse, tufted, [139].
Trema, [100].
Trillium, painted, [6], [19].
purple, [29].
Vaccinium cæspitosum, [49].
Verdin, [172], [239], [257], [291].
Violet, round-leaved, [4], [11], [19], [29].
Selkirk’s, [30].
Vireo, blue-headed (solitary), [21], [86], [108], [129].
red-eyed, [147], [155].
yellow-throated, [129], [130].
white-eyed, [86], [104], [108], [130], [140], [147].
Warbler, Bachman’s, [134].
bay-breasted, [21].
black-and-white, [107], [129], [156].
Blackburnian, [21].
black-throated blue, [21].
black-throated green, [21].
Lucy, [292].
myrtle, [21], [26], [41], [65], [66], [76], [86], [101], [107], [129], [130], [156].
palm, [86], [107], [129], [130].
parula, [21], [107], [129], [133], [134], [140], [155].
pileolated, [292].
pine, [86], [156].
prairie, [107], [129], [133], [156].
yellow palm, [78].
yellow-throated, [129], [130], [133], [134], [156].
Woodpecker, downy, [110], [129].
hairy, [18], [59], [63], [110].
ivory-billed, [110].
pileated, [79], [109], [150].
red-bellied, [86], [110], [129], [131], [149].
red-cockaded, [110].
red-headed, [110], [129].
Wood pewee, [63].
Wren, Baird, [255].
cactus, [207], [251], [255].
canyon, [255], [280], [289], [292].
Carolina, [107], [139], [147], [156].
house, [105], [107], [129].
interior tule, [255].
rock, [198], [255], [291].
winter, [21], [59], [62], [64], [66].
Yellow-throat, Florida, [86], [105], [107].
Maryland, [57].
FOOTNOTES:
[1] 1900.
[2] It may have been some species of Pellia, to judge by the plate in Gray’s Manual.
[3] And if New Hampshire people will call the mountain “Moose Hillock,” as, alas, they will, then we have here another proof of the degeneracy which follows the white man’s addiction to the punning habit.
[4] And so it was; for though I felt sure, I wanted to be sure, and submitted it to an expert.
[5] One was living in the greenhouse connected with the big hotel. The gardener told me that it had come in of itself, and persisted in staying. He had tried in vain to get rid of it. Tossed out of doors, it would at once return and make itself at home.
[6] And after all this talk about the plant I must in candor add that it turned out to be by no means rare along the bay shore. I think I am not wrong in remembering to have heard it called the calabash tree.
[7] One of the most striking peculiarities of Southern speech among the illiterate classes (I have observed it in other states besides Florida) is the almost total absence of the word “saw.”
[8] We often fed the birds afterward, and one or two, at least, were never shy about coming into our laps.
[9] Vachellia Farnesiana, sparingly naturalized in Florida, where it goes by the name of Opopanax.
[10] Since this letter was first printed I have been warned more than once that walking upon railroad tracks, in the Southwestern country, at least, is an unsafe proceeding, for a man alone and unarmed; and I think it right to pass along the caution.
[11] I could hardly believe it anything but an accidental omission when I noticed the total absence of jays, crows, and ravens from Mr. Attwater’s list of the birds of San Antonio and vicinity. See The Auk, vol. ix, p. 229.
[12] True as a general statement; but once, at Tucson, I saw a bird standing on the top of a telegraph pole facing a pretty stiff breeze, which blew the feathers of the throat apart till they showed a snow-white spot as large as a silver dollar.
[13] Botanically, if I am correctly informed, the plant is Fouquiera splendens, otherwise known as candlewood, Jacob’s staff, and coach-whip. Like the giant cactus it seems to be restricted to the foothills.
[14] Alas, it never does.
[15] There is another raven in Arizona, rarer and larger,—a real raven, so to speak,—but I saw it only a few times, always high in air, as if it were passing from one mountain range to another.
[16] The trick was seen to fuller advantage on subsequent occasions, and I came to the settled conclusion that the birds turned but halfway over; that is to say, they lay on their backs for an instant, and then, as by the recoil of a spring, recovered themselves. How they acquired the trick, and for what purpose they practice it, are questions beyond my answering. Since my return home, indeed, I have discovered that Gilbert White, who noted so many things, noted this same habit on the part of the European raven. According to him, the birds “lose the centre of gravity” while “scratching themselves with one foot.” How he knows this he does not inform us, and I must confess myself unconvinced.
[17] They are not to be found on the desert, I afterward learned, but along the watercourses. There I often saw them.
[18] I visited more than one of them afterward.
[19] And so they were, on the testimony of the Washington ornithologist above quoted, who knows both bird and song.
[20] It should be said, nevertheless, that straggling flocks of Western bluebirds—lovely creatures—were met with on the desert on rare occasions, and once, at Old Camp Lowell, three robins—Westerners, no doubt—passed over my head, flying toward the mountains, in which they are said to winter.
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