Saguenay River, scenery of. St. Alphonse. St. Lawrence; down the. Salmon. Sapsucker, yellow-bellied. _See_ Woodpecker, yellow-bellied. Scenery-hunting. Schoolhouse, a country. Shakespeare, quotations from; power and beauty in his poetry. Shanly, C. D., his poem, _The Walker of the Snow._ Shrike (_Lanius_ sp.). Shrike, northern. _See_ Butcherbird. Silkweed. Skunk, den of. Skylark, song of. Snake, and catfish. Snapdragon. Snow, a sign of. Snowbird, _or_ slate-colored junco (_Junco hyemalis_). Snowflake. _See_ Bunting, snow. Sparrow, English (_Passer domesticus_), a comedy; notes of. Sparrow, reed, song of. Sparrow, song (_Melospiza einerea melodia_), song of. Sparrow, white-throated (_Zonotrichia albicollis_), song of. Sparrows, songs of. Spring-beauty. Spruce, a Canadian forest of. Squirrel, gray. Squirrel, red; playing tag. Starling, European, notes of; nest of. Starling, red-shouldered, _or_ red-winged blackbird (_Agelaius phœniceus_). Strawberries, Dr. Parr and Dr. Boteler on; praise of; odor of; Downer; Wilson; wild; alpine; cultivation of. Sumach. Swallow, an albino. Swallows, on damp days. Swift, European, notes of. Tadousac. Tanager, scarlet (_Piranga erythromelas_), song of. Thoreau, Henry D.; quotation from. Throstle. Thrush, hermit (_Hylocichla guttata pallasii_); song of. Thrush, missel; pugnaciousness of; notes of. Thrush, White’s. Thrush, wood (_Hylocichla mustelina_), song of. Thunder-storms; in the woods. Titlark. _See_ Pipit, American. Tree-toads, young. Trout, brook, markings of; of the Neversink; cannibals; of the Beaverkill; jumping; of Balsam Lake; spawning of; of the Catskill waters; an unsuccessful fight with a; a six-pound; two varieties in Jacques Cartier River. Trout-fishing, as an introduction to nature; the heart the proper bait in; on the Neversink; on the Beaverkill; in Balsam Lake; pleasures and discomforts of an excursion; on the Rondout; on the East Branch of the Neversink; in Canada; catching a six-pounder. Trout streams, beauties of; the ideal; at the headwaters of the Delaware; clearness of; thriving only in the woods. Violets. Vireo, song of. Vireo, red-eyed (_Vireo olivaceus_), song of. _Walker of the Snow, The_, by C. D. Shanly. Walking, benefits of. Wallkill River. Warbler, Blackburnian (Dendroica blackburniæ). Warbler, black-throated blue (_Dendroica cærulescens_); finding the nest and young of; notes of; nest of. Warbler, Canada (_Wilsonia canadensis_). Warbler, chestnut-sided (_Dendroica pensylvanica_). Warbler, mourning (_Geothlypis philadelphia_). Warbler, yellow-rumped or myrtle (_Dendroica coronata_), rescue of a. Water, its importance in nature and in the life of man. Water-wagtail, small, _or_ water-thrush (_Seiurus noveboracensis_). Waxwing, Bohemian (_Ampelis garrulus_). Waxwing, cedar. _See_ Cedar-bird.