Oven-bird (_Seiurus aurocapillus_), walk of, 40; ordinary song of, 40, 41; flight song of, 41, 42. Peacock, strutting before a crow, 217. Peckham, George W. and Elizabeth G., their work on the solitary wasps, 116. Pelicans, driving fish, 216. Phoebe-bird (_Sayornis phoebe_), nesting-habits of, 5, 157, 158; nest-building of, 112; cowbird's egg in nest of, 157; an instance of stupidity, 168, 169. Pigeon, passenger, or wild pigeon (_Ectopistes migratorius_), flocks of, 96, 97. Pike, 127. Plants, intelligence of, 128, 129. Plover, ring, rejecting counterfeit eggs, 227, 228. Poison, fear of, 140. Poisoning among animals, 105, 106. Porcupine, its lack of wit, 3, 186; an encounter with a, 242-244; easily killed, 244; stories of rolling into a ball, 244, 245; C. G. D. Roberts on, 245, 246. Prairie-dogs, their fear of weeds and grass, 189. Protective coloration, 139, 140. Quail, or bob-white (_Colinus virginianus_), nests of, 6. Rabbit, nest of, 7; intelligence of, 7; pursued by a mink or weasel, 7, 8; pursued by a fox, 8; imitating a monkey, 66. Rabbit, jack, 184; running in a furrow, 213. Raccoon, washing food, 3, 134. Rats, 72, 73, 106, 184, 185. "Real and Sham Natural History," the author's article, v, vi. Reason, an artificial light, 212. Roberts, Charles G. D., on the porcupine, 245, 246. Robin (_Merula migratoria_), nests of, 4, 5, 169, 264, 265; unusual songs of, 45, 68, 154, 155; nesting on turn-table, 169; and string, 246, 247; variability of nesting-habits of, 258, 259; closely associated with country life, 261, 262; boring for grubs, 262, 263; pugnacity of, 263; at war with blue jays, crow blackbirds, and cuckoos, 263, 264; a hustler, 264, 265. Romanes, G. J., 15, 16, 73, 106, 142; untrustworthiness of his _Animal Intelligence_, 147, 148. Roosevelt, Theodore, his _The Wilderness Hunter_, 72, 142; quoted on teaching among animals, 84-86, 88, 103; quoted on the moose, 142, 149; his story of a horse, 235. Rooster, "teaching" a young one, 94; calling a hen, 190. Ruskin, John, 197. St. John, Charles, 76; his story of a fox, 142, 149. Sapsucker, yellow-bellied. _See_ Yellow-bellied woodpecker. Scallops, 129, 130. Schoolchildren, letters from, 1. "School of the woods," the, 99. Scott, W. E. D., 68. Selous, Edmund, on a song contest between nightingales, 115. Seton, Ernest Thompson, 184, 203. Sexual selection, 116. Sharp, Dallas Lore, on the crested flycatcher, 18. Shrike (_Lanius_ sp.), assisting wounded mate, 24, 250. Skunk, dull wits of, 4; killing a maimed one, 203. Skunk-cabbage, 52. Skylark, song of, 32-34, 37; in America, 33, 34; Scotchman and, 33; Irishman and, 34; wooing a vesper sparrow, 40; a caged, 69. Snake, black, 16.