Honey-bee, gathering honey and pollen; wax-making; life of the drone; life of the queen; democratic government; description of queen and drone; swarming; wildness of; favorite hives; mortality of; acuteness of sight. Honey-locust. Horse-fly. Hummingbird, ruby-throated (_Trochilus colubris_), strange death of a; nest of. Hyla, Pickering’s, in the woods. Indigo-bird, or indigo bunting (_Cyanospiza cyanea_), a petit duplicate of the blue grosbeak; song of; nest of. Jackdaw, nest of. Jacques Cartier River, trouting on. Jay, blue (_Cyanocitta cristata_); worrying a screech owl. Jay, Canada (_Perisoreus canadensis_). Jay, European, notes of. Junco, slate-colored. _See_ Snowbird. Kingbird (_Tyrannus tyrannus_), worrying hawks. Kingfisher, belted (_Ceryle alcyon_); notes of; nest of. Kinglet (_Regulus sp._). La Chance. Lake, nature as seen from a; life in and about a. Lake Jacques Cartier, Great; an excursion to. Lake Jacques Cartier, Little; trout-fishing in. Lake Memphremagog. Lake St. John. Lark. _See_ Skylark. Lark, shore _or_ horned (_Otocoris alpestris_). Ledges, the fascination of. Lily, spotted. Linden. _See_ Basswood. Locusts, as an article of food. Longspur, Lapland (_Calcarius lapponicus_). Loon (_Gavia imber_); laughter of. Maiden, a backwoods. Maple, red. Maple, sugar. Marigold, marsh. Marmot. _See_ Woodchuck. Meadowlark (_Sturnella magna_). Metapedia River. Midges. Mockingbird (_Mimus polyglottos_); song of. Montmorenci, Falls of. Moose. Morancy River. Mountains, poetry of. Mouse, common house. Neversink River, trouting on; trouting on the East Branch of. New Brunswick, journey through; streams of. Nightingale, notes of. Observation, powers and habits of. Oriole, Baltimore (_Icterus galbula_), nest of. Osprey, American. _See_ Hawk, fish. Ouzel, ring. Oven-bird (_Seiurus aurocapillus_). Owl, screech (_Megascops asio_), worried by other birds; in captivity; wail of. Panther, American, cry of. Partridge, _or_ ruffed grouse (_Bonasa umbellus_). Peakamoose. Pewee, wood (_Contopus virens_), notes of. Phœbe-bird (_Sayornis phœbe_); nest of. Pigeon, passenger (_Ectopistes migratorius_); nests of. Pipit, American, _or_ titlark (_Anthus pensilvanicus_). Porcupine, Canada, adventure with a; description of; his armor of quills; at Balsam Lake. Porpoise, white. Quebec. Raccoon, or coon, voice of; den of. Rain, waves and pulsations of; history of; relaxing effect of; necessary to the mind; after drought; importance to man of an abundance; curious things reported to have fallen in; the formation of; storms; effect of electricity on; in winter and spring; signs of; in camp. _See_ Thunder-storms and Weather. Raspberry, red. Rat. Rat, wood. Redpoll (_Acanthis linaria_). Redstart, European, nest of. Redwing. Restigouche River. Rivière du Loup. Robin, American (_Merula migratoria_); notes of. Robin redbreast, song of. Rondout Creek; camping and trouting on. Rose. Rye.