Bird Stories from Burroughs / Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs

by John Burroughs

INDEX

• Blackbird, cow. See [Cowbird].
• Bluebird, arrival in spring, [1];
  • nest-building, [1], [2];
  • young and cicada, [2], [3];
  • a bewildered pair, [3-7];
  • love and rivalry, [7-12];
  • war with house wrens, [47-52].
• Bluebird, The, poem, [13].
• Bobolink, courtship, [77], [78];
  • concealment of nest, [78-81].
• Bobolink, The, poem, [82].
• Bob-white. See [Quail].
• Butcher-bird. See [Shrike, northern].

• Catbird, song of, [72], [73];
  • and black snake, [73-76];
  • a coquette, [83].
• Cedar-bird, nest-building, [122], [123];
  • notes of, [124].
• Chewink, markings of, [39];
  • Thomas Jefferson writes to Alexander Wilson about, [39-41];
  • inhospitality of, [83].
• Chickadee, nesting of, [157-160].
• Chippy. See [Sparrow, chipping].
• Coming of Phœbe, The, poem, [31].
• Cowbird, notes of, [33];
  • parasitic habits of, [33-35].
• Crow, character of, [138], [139];
  • manners of, [139], [140];
  • wariness of, [140-142];
  • yearly meeting, [142], [143].
• Crow, The, poem, [144].

• Downy Woodpecker, The, poem, [169].

• Flicker, call of, [21];
  • courtship, [22], [25], [26];
  • not satisfied with being a woodpecker, [22], [23];
  • excavating a nest, [23];
  • young, [23-25];
  • drumming, [26], [27].

• Goldfinch, nesting, [125], [126];
  • notes of, [126-128];
  • flight of, [127], [128];
  • musical festivals, [128], [129].
• Grouse, ruffed, [133-136].

• Hawk, marsh, habits of, [106];
  • nest of, [106-108];
  • young, [111], [112];
  • a pet young one, [112-117].
• Hawk, red-shouldered. See [Hen-hawk].
• Hawk, red-tailed. See [Hen-hawk].
• Hen-hawk, flight of, [130-132].
• High-hole. See [Flicker].

• Jefferson, Thomas, [39], [40].

• Oriole, Baltimore, nests of, [91-94].
• Oven-bird, walk of, [69];
  • the two songs of, [69], [70];
  • nest of, [70], [71].
• Owl, screech, a brood, [151], [152];
  • two owl neighbors, [152-156];
  • a captive, [153];
  • note of, [154];
  • disappearing in his hole, [154-156].

• Partridge, [133-136].
• Partridge, The, poem, [137].
• Phœbe, arrival in spring, [28];
  • nests of, [29], [30].
• Phœbe, The Coming of, poem, [31].

• Quail, on nest, [109-111].

• Robin, arrival in spring, [15];
  • a graceful warrior, [16];
  • the "robin racket," [16], [17];
  • nest and young, [18], [19];
  • boring for grubs, [19], [20].

• Shrike, northern, [147-150];
  • raided by a screech owl, [155].
• Snake, black, and song sparrows, [55], [56];
  • and catbirds, [73-76].
• Sparrow, chipping, trying to catch a miller, [36];
  • feeding young robins, [37], [38].
• Sparrow, song, unsuccessful nestings, [53], [54];
  • and a black snake, [55], [56];
  • a risky experiment, [56-58];
  • a bob-tailed song sparrow's nest, [58-60].
• Swallow, chimney. See [Swift, chimney].
• Swift, chimney, nest of, [61], [62];
  • flight of, [61], [62];
  • young, [63], [64];
  • outriding the storms, [64];
  • habits of, [64-66];
  • great gatherings and aerial evolutions of, [66-68].

• Thrasher, brown, stealthiness of, [42];
  • nests of, [42-46];
  • skulking, [83].
• Thrush, wood, grace and elegance of, [83], [84];
  • newspaper in nests, [84-86];
  • the song and the nests, [86], [87];
  • unsuccessful nestings, [87-89];
  • song contests, [89], [90].
• Towhee. See [Chewink].

• Warbler, black-throated blue, a successful search for the nest of, [100-105].
• Whip-poor-will, eggs of, [95];
  • assimilative coloration of, [95], [97], [99];
  • young, [96];
  • gait of, [97];
  • song of, [97], [98];
  • an old bird with her young, [98], [99].
• Wilson, Alexander, [39-41].
• Woodpecker, downy, a winter neighbor, [161-164];
  • drumming, [164-167];
  • the mystery of his hopping up and down the trunks and branches, [167], [168].
• Woodpecker, The Downy, poem, [169].
• Woodpecker, golden-winged. See [Flicker].
• Wren, house, song of, [47];
  • war with bluebirds, [47-52].
• Wren, winter, in his summer home, [119], [120];
  • in winter, [120], [121].

• Yarup. See [Flicker].
• Yellowbird. See [Goldfinch].