Franconia Mountains (N.H.); Natural history -- Outdoor books; White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)
Vireo, Philadelphia, 189, 190;
red-eyed, 18, 72, 116, 144, 159, 170, 210;
solitary, 8, 66, 68, 72, 117, 148, 189, 191;
warbling, 120;
yellow-throated, 115, 214.
Warbler, bay-breasted, 72, 73, 87, 94;
Blackburnian, 86, 87, 94, 135;
black-and-white, 104;
blackpoll, 72, 142;
black-throated blue, 126;
black-throated green, 72, 189;
blue yellow-backed, 127, 216;
Canada, 101, 230;
Cape May, 94, 102, 103, 106, 107, 111, 198, 217;
chestnut-sided, 72, 73, 170;
magnolia, 101, 127, 144;
mourning, 112, 128;
myrtle, 68, 72, 143, 144, 189, 211, 240;
Nashville, 127, 189, 213;
Tennessee, 41, 92, 101, 102, 103, 105;
Wilson’s black-cap, 114.
Woodchuck, 61, 86, 96.
Wood pewee, 169, 214.
Woodpecker, arctic three-toed, 14;
downy, 68;
golden-winged, 16, 68, 72;
hairy, 41;
pileated, 45, 99, 156, 183, 193, 234.
Wood-sorrel, 167.
Wren, winter, 10, 57, 72, 90, 117.
The Riverside Press
_Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The species was not new. A Maine collector had anticipated her, I
believe. Whether _his_ name was given to the flea I did not learn or
have forgotten.
[2] The _Atlantic Monthly_.
[3] “I named it Tom’s Finch,” says Audubon, “in honor of our friend
Lincoln, who was a great favorite among us.”
[4] But the brightness of red-maple groves at this season is mostly not
in the leaves, but in the fruit.
[5] Yes, he has even been seen (and “taken”), so I am told, at the
summit of Mount Washington.
[6] No, the line is Coleridge’s:--
“the merry nightingale
That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With
fast thick warble his delicious notes.”
[7] So I was relieved to find all the Franconia white-throated sparrows
introducing their sets of triplets with two--not three--longer single
notes. That was how I had always whistled the tune; and I had been
astonished and grieved to see it printed in musical notation by Mr.
Cheney, and again by Mr. Chapman, with an introductory measure of three
notes: as if it were to go, “Old Sam, Sam Peabody, Peabody, Peabody,”
instead of, as I remembered it, and as reason dictated, “Old Sam
Peabody, Peabody, Peabody.” I am not intimating that Mr. Cheney and
Mr. Chapman are wrong, but that my own recollection was right,--a very
different matter, as my present experience with Tennessee warblers was
sufficient to show.
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