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A Bird-Lover in the West

Chapter 29: INDEX.
By Olive Thorne Miller
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A series of field studies and travel essays recounts birdwatching expeditions across the Rocky Mountains, the Middle Country, and the Great Salt Lake region. The narrative blends camping and travel detail with close natural-history observation, recording nests, songs, feeding, and habitat relationships. Individual chapters focus on particular species and episodes—wrens, jays, cardinals, meadowlarks, hummingbirds, and others—describing behavior, manners, and occasional nest tragedies. Interwoven reflections consider rest, immersion in wild places, and the attentive habits that enable careful study of birds and the flowers and landscapes that shape their lives.






INDEX.

  • Acadian flycatcher, 161.
  • Arkansas goldfinch, 23.
  • At four o'clock in the morning, 95.
  • Barbed wire fence, 157.
  • Behind the tangle, 246.
  • Birds:
    • and poets, 194.
    • a strange song, 73.
    • different ways, 264.
    • hard to study, 20.
    • in Colorado, 18.
    • in Colorado Springs, 260.
    • in Denver, 260.
    • in the "Wrens' Court," 161, 166, 168.
    • leave nesting place, 154.
    • morning chorus, 21, 22, 105.
    • music in Colorado, 32.
    • not on exhibition, 19.
    • not sing alike, 34.
    • panic among, 39.
    • unfamiliar, 23, 259.
    • Utah, 260.
  • Black-headed grosbeak, 244, 251.
    • song of, 244.
  • Blue jay, 126.
    • and doll, 103.
    • and red-headed woodpecker, 104.
    • apple-tree nest, 151.
    • a struggle, 149.
    • attentive to mate, 127.
    • bad name, 147.
    • devoted mother, 127.
    • eating, 144.
    • getting over the ground, 145.
    • home deserted, 140.
    • interview with, 146.
    • joke or war-cry? 134.
    • manners, 130, 132, 144.
    • my search for nest, 126.
    • no pretense, 130.
    • pine-tree nest, 126.
    • vocabulary, 133.
    • when babies are noisy, 131.
    • with a stranger, 148.
    • with catbirds, 150.
  • Blue jay, the young:
    • accident to, 140.
    • beauty of, 143.
    • climber, 141.
    • first outing, 138.
    • imperfect, 152.
    • intelligence in house, 152.
    • on edge of nest, 137.
    • returned to parents, 153.
  • Bobolink song, 120.
  • Burro an investigator, 89.

  • Camp Harding, 9.
  • Camping in Colorado, 3.
  • Cañon wren, the, 74.
  • Cardinal grosbeak, 107.
    • abandoning the nest, 120.
    • as a father, 113.
    • confidence in people, 121.
    • delight of parents, 123.
    • eating corn, 109, 115.
    • importance of the builder, 119.
    • kindness to young, 117.
    • manners, 107.
    • nest, 122.
    • on grass, 105, 107.
    • politeness to mate, 116.
    • reception of woodpecker, 108.
    • rose trellis nest, 121.
    • speeding the parting guest, 125.
    • victim of English sparrow, 114.
  • Cardinal, the young, 113.
    • characteristics, 114.
    • first baby out, 122.
    • food of, 123.
    • song of, 116.
    • training, 116.
    • with sparrows, 114, 115.
  • Carolina wren, the great:
    • babies appear, 172.
    • ceremony of approaching, 177.
    • father disturbed, 175.
    • first sight of, 159.
    • fighting a chipmunk, 178.
    • hard to see, 177.
    • interruption to study, 168.
    • manners, 163, 173, 175.
    • mother anxious, 176.
    • nest, 149, 182.
    • song, 162, 164.
    • trailing, 162.
    • "Wrens' Court," 160.
  • Carolina wren, the young:
    • cries of, 181.
    • delay in taking flight, 179.
    • development of, 174.
    • first sallies, 180, 181.
    • manners, 178.
  • Catbird song, 23.
  • Cat on lawn, 112.
  • Cedar-tree little folk, 194.
  • Charming nook, a, 124.
  • Chat, long-tailed, yellow-breasted, 40, 232.
  • Chat, the madam:
    • interviews me, 255.
    • keeps her mate up to duty, 249.
    • manners, 248.
    • squawks, 254.
    • wonderful acting, 256.
  • Chewink, or towhee bunting:
    • babies, 31.
    • green-tailed towhee, 210.
    • husky cry, 30.
    • manners, 28, 29.
    • nest, 30.
    • song, 29.
  • Cheyenne Cañon, 15.
    • solitary possession of, 75.
  • Cheyenne Mountain, 43.
  • Chipmunk, 78.
  • Cinderella among the flowers, a, 60.
  • Cliff-dwellers in the cañon, 70.
  • Colorado, a restful way to see, 13.
    • the wonderland, 14.
  • Cotton storm, a, 17.
  • Cottonwoods, in the, 17.
  • Cuckoo, 157, 231.

  • Doll as a bogy, 103.
  • Dragonflies in Utah, 263.

  • English or house sparrow:
    • as a climber, 110.
    • autocrat, 129.
    • in Utah, 261.
    • robbing blackbirds, 100.
    • robbing red-headed woodpecker, 110.

  • Feast of flowers, the, 52.
  • Flicker a character, 106.
  • Flowers:
    • abundance of bloom, 54.
    • anemone, 61.
    • cactus, 56, 62, 74.
    • castilleia, 67.
    • cleome, 67.
    • columbine, 58, 67.
    • cyclamen, 67.
    • extermination by cattle, 208.
    • extermination by tourists, 68.
    • geranium, 58.
    • gilia, 64.
    • golden prince's feather, 65.
    • gummy and clinging stems, 66.
    • harebells, 67.
    • in a niche, 73.
    • in Kansas, 52.
    • mariposa lily, 65.
    • mentzelia, 60.
    • mertensia, 67.
    • Mexican poppy, 62.
    • milky juice, 66.
    • moccasin plant, 54, 75.
    • nasturtium, self-willed, 149.
    • ox-eye daisy, 66.
    • painter of, 68.
    • paradise of, 53.
    • pentstemon, 58.
    • pink stranger, 62.
    • primrose, 58, 67.
    • roses, 58, 63, 75.
    • spiderwort, 52.
    • symphony in green, 55.
    • varieties, 53, 57.
    • vetches, 67.
    • wild garden, 57.
    • wild mignonette, 62.
    • yellow daisies, 52.
    • yucca, 55, 62.

  • Gates, idiosyncrasies of, 220.
  • Getting up in the morning, 95.
  • Glen, a beautiful, 155.
    • frightened out of, 169.
  • Grasshopper, a clacking, 266.
  • Grave of "H. H.," 90, 91.
  • Great-crested flycatcher, 167.
  • Gull, the herring, 211.
    • following the plow, 213.
    • flight, 215.
    • manners, 213.
    • nesting, 216.
    • nooning, 215.
    • penalty for killing, 212.
    • sent to the "Chosen People," 212.
    • value of, 216.

  • Horned lark:
    • horns, 36.
    • nest, 36.
    • song, 35.
  • Horse, a scared, and result, 228.
    • drive me away, 257.
  • House wren, the Western, 24.
    • babies, 27, 28.
    • disturbed, 27.
    • manners, 24.
    • nest, 25.
    • song, 27.
    • strange cry, 25.
  • Humming-bird:
    • collecting spiders, 271.
    • different from the Eastern, 38.
    • dislike of heat, 272.
    • in cañon, 76.
    • last glimpse, 273.
    • manners, 269.
    • nesting, 272.
    • noisy, 38.
    • precious beak, 271.
    • scolding, 42.
    • surveillance, 40.
    • the broad-tailed, 268.
    • toilet of, 271.

  • Ideal retreat, an, 247.
  • In a pasture, 207.
  • In the Middle Country, 93.
  • In the Rocky Mountains, 1.
  • Irrigation vagaries, 242, 245, 267.

  • Kansas, 7.
  • Kitchen, an al fresco, 243.
  • Kitten, a lost, 39.

  • Lazuli-painted finch, 261.
  • Magpie:
  • Meadow-lark, the Western, 249.
  • Morning tramp, a, 156.
  • Mosquito, absence of, 20.
    • a lonely, 21.
  • Mourning dove, 103.
  • Oak-brush, the, 222.
  • On the lawn, 259.
  • Orchard, an old, 250.
  • Orchard oriole:
    • a later view, 191.
    • anxiety of parents, 185.
    • baby cries, 186.
    • babies' first flight, 189, 190.
    • call from a Baltimore, 188.
    • called by nestlings, 184.
    • manners, 186, 190.
    • nest, 184, 192.
    • song of female, 191.
    • song of male, 192.

  • Park, a deserted, 42.
  • Pewee, Western wood, 22.
  • Purple grackle, the, 96.
    • discouraging them, 104.
    • eating, 100.
    • greeting to me, 97.
    • husky tones, 98.
    • humor, 99.
    • no repose of manner, 101.
    • plumage, 99.
    • robbed by sparrows, 100.
    • strange utterances, 98.
    • treatment of young, 101.
    • young, 98, 101, 102.
    • young, persistence of, 102.

  • Red-headed woodpecker:
    • autocrat, 106.
    • eating corn, 109.
    • protecting the place, 110.
    • treatment of cardinal grosbeak, 108.
    • treatment of doll, 104.
  • Rest, to find, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11.
  • Robin, absence of, 28.
    • and corn, 103.
    • and doll, 103.
    • not plentiful, 250.
    • reception of snake, 250.
  • Rocky Mountains:
    • a pasture on, 207.
    • Cheyenne range, 235.
    • Wasatch range, 233, 234.

  • Sage-bush, 233.
  • Sage the delight of my friend, 234.
  • Salt Lake, view of, 218.
  • Secret of the Wild Rose Path, 231.
  • Seven Sisters' Falls, 72.
  • Sight-seeing travelers, 12.
  • South wind, 266.
  • Strange character of feathered world, 128.
  • Strangers not allowed, 129.
  • Study of birds, my way, 226.
  • Study of birds, two ways, 236.

  • Tents to live in, 11.
  • Thrushes absent, 260.
  • Tourist, 89, 91.
  • Tourist, the unscrupulous, 68.
  • Towhee (see Chewink).
  • Tragedy of a nest, 42.

  • Uproar of song, an, 32.

  • Vagaries of name-givers, 160.
  • View, a beautiful, 136.

  • Walks from the camp, 70.
    • the evening, 70.
    • the morning, 72.
    • up to the cañon, 72.
  • Water ouzel, or American dipper:
    • baby, 80, 85.
    • cry, 79.
    • "dipping," 80.
    • feats in the water, 83.
    • manners, 80, 81.
    • nest, 77.
    • song, 79, 81.
    • the mother, 82.
  • Wood-thrush nest, 168.

  • Yellow warbler: