A Bird-Lover in the West

by Olive Thorne Miller

INDEX.

• Acadian flycatcher, [161].
• Arkansas goldfinch, [23].
• At four o'clock in the morning, [95].
• Barbed wire fence, [157].
• Behind the tangle, [246].
• Birds:
  • and poets, [194].
  • a strange song, [73].
  • different ways, [264].
  • hard to study, [20].
  • in Colorado, [18].
  • in Colorado Springs, [260].
  • in Denver, [260].
  • in the "Wrens' Court," [161], [166], [168].
  • leave nesting place, [154].
  • morning chorus, [21], [22], [105].
  • music in Colorado, [32].
  • not on exhibition, [19].
  • not sing alike, [34].
  • panic among, [39].
  • unfamiliar, [23], [259].
  • Utah, [260].
• Black-headed grosbeak, [244], [251].
  • song of, [244].
• Blue jay, [126].
  • and doll, [103].
  • and red-headed woodpecker, [104].
  • apple-tree nest, [151].
  • a struggle, [149].
  • attentive to mate, [127].
  • bad name, [147].
  • devoted mother, [127].
  • eating, [144].
  • getting over the ground, [145].
  • home deserted, [140].
  • interview with, [146].
  • joke or war-cry? [134].
  • manners, [130], [132], [144].
  • my search for nest, [126].
  • no pretense, [130].
  • pine-tree nest, [126].
  • vocabulary, [133].
  • when babies are noisy, [131].
  • with a stranger, [148].
  • with catbirds, [150].
• Blue jay, the young:
  • accident to, [140].
  • beauty of, [143].
  • climber, [141].
  • first outing, [138].
  • imperfect, [152].
  • intelligence in house, [152].
  • on edge of nest, [137].
  • returned to parents, [153].
• Bobolink song, [120].
• Burro an investigator, [89].
  
• Camp Harding, [9].
• Camping in Colorado, [3].
• Cañon wren, the, [74].
  • manners, [86], [87].
  • song, [74].
• Cardinal grosbeak, [107].
  • abandoning the nest, [120].
  • as a father, [113].
  • confidence in people, [121].
  • delight of parents, [123].
  • eating corn, [109], [115].
  • importance of the builder, [119].
  • kindness to young, [117].
  • manners, [107].
  • nest, [122].
  • on grass, [105], [107].
  • politeness to mate, [116].
  • reception of woodpecker, [108].
  • rose trellis nest, [121].
  • speeding the parting guest, [125].
  • victim of English sparrow, [114].
• Cardinal, the young, [113].
  • characteristics, [114].
  • first baby out, [122].
  • food of, [123].
  • song of, [116].
  • training, [116].
  • with sparrows, [114], [115].
• Carolina wren, the great:
  • babies appear, [172].
  • ceremony of approaching, [177].
  • father disturbed, [175].
  • first sight of, [159].
  • fighting a chipmunk, [178].
  • hard to see, [177].
  • interruption to study, [168].
  • manners, [163], [173], [175].
  • mother anxious, [176].
  • nest, [149], [182].
  • song, [162], [164].
  • trailing, [162].
  • "Wrens' Court," [160].
• Carolina wren, the young:
  • cries of, [181].
  • delay in taking flight, [179].
  • development of, [174].
  • first sallies, [180], [181].
  • manners, [178].
• Catbird song, [23].
• Cat on lawn, [112].
• Cedar-tree little folk, [194].
• Charming nook, a, [124].
• Chat, long-tailed, yellow-breasted, [40], [232].
  • alertness of, [240].
  • bewitching, [241].
  • comes in sight, [237].
  • eccentric, [232].
  • egg stolen, [50].
  • farewell, [51].
  • first sight of, [45].
  • hard to study, [47].
  • haunts of, [241].
  • home of, [246].
  • humor, [40].
  • manners, [44], [46], [238], [239], [240].
  • nest, [47], [48].
  • on hand, [245].
  • saucy, [41].
  • secret of invisibility, [239].
  • studies me, [254],
  • triumphant, [257].
  • voice, [40], [43], [45], [236], [237], [239].
• Chat, the madam:
  • interviews me, [255].
  • keeps her mate up to duty, [249].
  • manners, [248].
  • squawks, [254].
  • wonderful acting, [256].
• Chewink, or towhee bunting:
  • babies, [31].
  • green-tailed towhee, [210].
  • husky cry, [30].
  • manners, [28], [29].
  • nest, [30].
  • song, [29].
• Cheyenne Cañon, [15].
  • solitary possession of, [75].
• Cheyenne Mountain, [43].
• Chipmunk, [78].
• Cinderella among the flowers, a, [60].
• Cliff-dwellers in the cañon, [70].
• Colorado, a restful way to see, [13].
  • the wonderland, [14].
• Cotton storm, a, [17].
• Cottonwoods, in the, [17].
• Cuckoo, [157], [231].
  
• Doll as a bogy, [103].
• Dragonflies in Utah, [263].
  
• English or house sparrow:
  • as a climber, [110].
  • autocrat, [129].
  • in Utah, [261].
  • robbing blackbirds, [100].
  • robbing red-headed woodpecker, [110].
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• Feast of flowers, the, [52].
• Flicker a character, [106].
  • abundance of bloom, [54].
  • anemone, [61].
  • cactus, [56], [62], [74].
  • castilleia, [67].
  • cleome, [67].
  • columbine, [58], [67].
  • cyclamen, [67].
  • extermination by cattle, [208].
  • extermination by tourists, [68].
  • geranium, [58].
  • gilia, [64].
  • golden prince's feather, [65].
  • gummy and clinging stems, [66].
  • harebells, [67].
  • in a niche, [73].
  • in Kansas, [52].
  • mariposa lily, [65].
  • mentzelia, [60].
  • mertensia, [67].
  • Mexican poppy, [62].
  • milky juice, [66].
  • moccasin plant, [54], [75].
  • nasturtium, self-willed, [149].
  • ox-eye daisy, [66].
  • painter of, [68].
  • paradise of, [53].
  • pentstemon, [58].
  • pink stranger, [62].
  • primrose, [58], [67].
  • roses, [58], [63], [75].
  • spiderwort, [52].
  • symphony in green, [55].
  • varieties, [53], [57].
  • vetches, [67].
  • wild garden, [57].
  • wild mignonette, [62].
  • yellow daisies, [52].
  • yucca, [55], [62].
• Flowers:
• 
  
• Gates, idiosyncrasies of, [220].
  • frightened out of, [169].
• Getting up in the morning, [95].
• Glen, a beautiful, [155].
• Grasshopper, a clacking, [266].
• Grave of "H. H.," [90], [91].
  • following the plow, [213].
  • flight, [215].
  • manners, [213].
  • nesting, [216].
  • nooning, [215].
  • penalty for killing, [212].
  • sent to the "Chosen People," [212].
  • value of, [216].
• Great-crested flycatcher, [167].
  • horns, [36].
  • nest, [36].
  • song, [35].
• Gull, the herring, [211].
  • drive me away, [257].
• 
  
  • babies, [27], [28].
  • disturbed, [27].
  • manners, [24].
  • nest, [25].
  • song, [27].
  • strange cry, [25].
• Horned lark:
  • collecting spiders, [271].
  • different from the Eastern, [38].
  • dislike of heat, [272].
  • in cañon, [76].
  • last glimpse, [273].
  • manners, [269].
  • nesting, [272].
  • noisy, [38].
  • precious beak, [271].
  • scolding, [42].
  • surveillance, [40].
  • the broad-tailed, [268].
  • toilet of, [271].
• Horse, a scared, and result, [228].
• House wren, the Western, [24].
• Humming-bird:
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• Ideal retreat, an, [247].
• In a pasture, [207].
• In the Middle Country, [93].
• In the Rocky Mountains, [1].
• Irrigation vagaries, [242], [245], [267].
  
  • anxiety of mother, [263].
  • babies, [267].
  • manners, [262], [265].
  • nest, [262].
  • nest destroyed, [268].
• Kansas, [7].
  • discover us, [225].
  • manners, [216], [219], [224].
  • nest, [223].
  • nursery, [230].
  • reception to us, [227].
  • search for nest, [216].
  • song, [224].
• Kitchen, an al fresco, [243].
  • cry, [120].
  • song, [24], [32], [34].
• Kitten, a lost, [39].
  
• Lazuli-painted finch, [261].
  • a lonely, [21].
• 
  
  • headquarters, [199].
  • joke of, [200].
  • manners, [196], [198], [199].
  • nest, [198].
  • silence of, [201], [204].
  • song, [195], [204].
  • talk, [204].
  • wing whistle, [204].
  • young, interview with, [201].
  • young, manners of, [197], [201].
• Magpie:
• Meadow-lark, the Western, [249].
• Morning tramp, a, [156].
• Mosquito, absence of, [20].
  • a later view, [191].
  • anxiety of parents, [185].
  • baby cries, [186].
  • babies' first flight, [189], [190].
  • call from a Baltimore, [188].
  • called by nestlings, [184].
  • manners, [186], [190].
  • nest, [184], [192].
  • song of female, [191].
  • song of male, [192].
• Mourning dove, [103].
• 
  
  • nest, [38].
  • song, [22], [37].
  • voice, [37].
• Oak-brush, the, [222].
  • discouraging them, [104].
  • eating, [100].
  • greeting to me, [97].
  • husky tones, [98].
  • humor, [99].
  • no repose of manner, [101].
  • plumage, [99].
  • robbed by sparrows, [100].
  • strange utterances, [98].
  • treatment of young, [101].
  • young, [98], [101], [102].
  • young, persistence of, [102].
• On the lawn, [259].
  • autocrat, [106].
  • eating corn, [109].
  • protecting the place, [110].
  • treatment of cardinal grosbeak, [108].
  • treatment of doll, [104].
• Orchard, an old, [250].
• Orchard oriole:
  • and corn, [103].
  • and doll, [103].
  • not plentiful, [250].
  • reception of snake, [250].
• 
  
  • a pasture on, [207].
  • Cheyenne range, [235].
  • Wasatch range, [233], [234].
• Park, a deserted, [42].
• Pewee, Western wood, [22].
• Purple grackle, the, [96].
• 
  
• Red-headed woodpecker:
• Rest, to find, [3], [4], [5], [6], [11].
• Robin, absence of, [28].
• Rocky Mountains:
• 
  
• Sage-bush, [233].
• Sage the delight of my friend, [234].
• Salt Lake, view of, [218].
• Secret of the Wild Rose Path, [231].
• Seven Sisters' Falls, [72].
• Sight-seeing travelers, [12].
• South wind, [266].
• Strange character of feathered world, [128].
• Strangers not allowed, [129].
• Study of birds, my way, [226].
• Study of birds, two ways, [236].
  
• Tents to live in, [11].
  • the evening, [70].
  • the morning, [72].
  • up to the cañon, [72].
• Thrushes absent, [260].
  • baby, [80], [85].
  • cry, [79].
  • "dipping," [80].
  • feats in the water, [83].
  • manners, [80], [81].
  • nest, [77].
  • song, [79], [81].
  • the mother, [82].
• Tourist, [89], [91].
• Tourist, the unscrupulous, [68].
  • nest, [36], [37].
  • song, [23], [36].
• Towhee (see Chewink).
• Tragedy of a nest, [42].
  
• Uproar of song, an, [32].
  
• Vagaries of name-givers, [160].
• View, a beautiful, [136].
  
• Walks from the camp, [70].
• Water ouzel, or American dipper:
• Wood-thrush nest, [168].
  
• Yellow warbler:

Transcriber's Note