Another time I saw the two orioles on top of a cage, six or eight inches apart. First she stretched up and faced him, uttering a peculiar cry, a single note of rich but mournful tone, and then she bowed again and again, constantly repeating the call. He posed, turned this way and that, evidently aching to fly at her. At last she flew, and he followed to another cage, where the performance was repeated. Then came a mad chase around the room, which she ended by slipping behind a large cage.
For some days these scenes were frequent, and I began to feel myself a jailer; so one morning they were carried to the country, where sparrows would not mob them, and set at liberty to pursue their wooing, if such it were, in freedom.
INDEX.
- Arkansas goldfinch, [185].
- Black-throated green warbler, [26], [28], [29].
- Bluebird, [173].
- Blue jay, [216].
- Bobolink, [30].
- Brazilian cardinal, [214].
- Catbird, [153], [158].
- Cats, [197].
- Chebec, [6], [21].
- Chewink, [159], [180-184].
- Chipmunk, [13].
- Chipping sparrow, [86].
- Clarin, [205-220], [226].
- Cowbird, [22].
- Crow, [6], [156], [166].
- Cuckoo, [62], [64], [65].
- Eave swallow, [32], [175].
- English sparrow, [200].
- Fox barking, [16].
- Golden-winged woodpecker, [18], [49], [164].
- Hermit thrush, [6], [8], [9], [10], [21], [22], [202].
- House wren, [30], [49], [189].
- Junco, [201].
- Least flycatcher, [61], [62].
- Maryland yellow-throat, [142-147].
- Meadow lark, [31], [34].
- Meadow lark, western, [191].
- Mountain whistler, [220-226].
- Night hawk, [200].
- Olive-aided flycatcher, [7], [11], [14-18].
- Oriole, Baltimore, [50], [150-153], [229-245].
- Oriole, orchard, [227-239].
- Oven-bird, [7].
- Phœbe, [33], [34], [174].
- Red-eyed vireo, [6], [155].
- Red-headed woodpecker, [35].
- Red-shafted woodpecker, [189].
- Red-winged blackbird, [166-173].
- Robin, [29], [30].
- Rose-breasted grosbeak, [18], [19].
- Ruby-throated hummingbird, [103-140], [225].
- Sandpiper, [6], [164].
- Shrike, [29], [35-60], [66-71].
- Solitaire, [205-220], [226].
- Song sparrow, [30].
- Summer yellow-bird, [179].
- Thrasher, [147-149], [201].
- Towhee bunting, [159], [180-184].
- Townsend's fly-catching thrush, [226].
- Tree swallows, [175].
- Trembleur, [224].
- Veery, [7], [27], [157].
- Vesper sparrow, [174].
Transcriber's note:
The original book had unique headings on every other page, they have been placed as sidenotes in order to take them out of the middle of paragraphs.