[238] [Walden, pp. 358, 359; Riv. 502.]
[239] [Walden, p. 77; Riv. 110, 111.]
[240] [So Channing (p. 128), who calls it “one of Thoreau’s names for some bird, so named by the farmers.” The word as written is far from clear.]
[241] Vide p. [373.]
[242] [Channing, pp. 126-128.]
[243] [Channing, pp. 128, 129.]
[244] [See Hawthorne’s story “The Minister’s Black Veil” and footnote to the title, Twice-Told Tales, Riverside Edition, p. 52.]
[245] [Excursions, p. 305; Riv. 375.]
[246] [Walden, p. 355; Riv. 497.]
[247] Harper’s New Monthly, vol. i, p. 648, from Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal.