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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Burroughs

Chapter 40: A STUDY
By John Burroughs
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A curated listing presents organized tables of contents and volume-by-volume inventories of naturalist essays, grouping pieces on birds, bees, mammals, seasonal scenes, and travel. Individual entries name essays and indicate their placement within collections that treat nesting and winter bird life, bee behavior, woodland and field observations, sketches of small fur-bearing animals, and meditative pieces on spring and autumn. The arrangement emphasizes thematic sections and indexes to help readers locate particular essays across multiple volumes and understand the scope and structure of the author's nature writings.

THE WIT OF A DUCK

AND OTHER PAPERS

By John Burroughs



CONTENTS

I. The Wit of a Duck 5
II. An Astonished Porcupine 10
III. Human Traits in the Animals 14
IV. The Downy Woodpecker 22
V. A Barn-Door Outlook 27
VI. Wild Life in Winter 47
VII. Bird Life in Winter 54
VIII. A Birds' Free Lunch 63
IX. Bird-Nesting Time 70
X. A Breath of April 77
XI. The Woodcock's Evening Hymn 83
XII. The Coming of Summer 89





SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS

By John Burroughs

With Fifteen Illustrations In Colors After Audubon



CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. Squirrels 1
II. The Chipmunk 15
III. The Woodchuck 32
IV. The Rabbit and the Hare 38
V. The Muskrat 43
VI. The Skunk 48
VII. The Fox 53
VIII. The Weasel 72
IX. The Mink 90
X. The Raccoon 94
XI. The Porcupine 98
XII. The Opossum 106
XIII. Wild Mice 111
XIV. Glimpses of Wild Life 125
XV. A Life of Fear 135
Index 145

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Red Fox (page 53) (From a photograph by Wm. Lyman Underwood, Belmont, Mass.) Frontispiece
Flying Squirrel 4
Gray Squirrel 8
Chipmunk 18
Woodchuck 34
Gray Rabbit 40
Muskrat 46
Skunk 50
Weasel 74
Mink 90
Raccoon 96
Porcupine 102
Opossum 108
White-footed Mouse 112
Jumping Mouse 120
Red Squirrel 136





BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS

Sketches Of Bird Life Taken From The Works Of John Burroughs

With Illustrations By Louis Agassiz Fuertes

CONTENTS

The Bluebird 1
The Bluebird (poem) 13
The Robin 15
The Flicker 21
The Phœbe 28
The Coming of Phœbe (poem) 31
The Cowbird 33
The Chipping Sparrow 36
The Chewink 39
The Brown Thrasher 42
The House Wren 47
The Song Sparrow 53
The Chimney Swift 61
The Oven-Bird 69
The Catbird 72
The Bobolink 77
The Bobolink (poem) 82
The Wood Thrush 83
The Baltimore Oriole 91
The Whip-poor-will 95
The Black-throated Blue Warbler: A Search for
a Rare Nest 		100
The Marsh Hawk: A Marsh Hawk's Nest, a Young
Hawk, and a Visit to a Quail on her Nest 		106
The Winter Wren 119
The Cedar-Bird 122
The Goldfinch 125
The Hen-Hawk 130
The Ruffed Grouse, or Partridge 133
The Partridge (poem) 137
The Crow 138
The Crow (poem) 144
The Northern Shrike 147
The Screech Owl 151
The Chickadee 157
The Downy Woodpecker 161
The Downy Woodpecker (poem) 169
Index 173

ILLUSTRATIONS

Goldfinch (in color). (page 125) Frontispiece
A Pair of Bluebirds 8
Flicker (in color) 22
Chewink, Male and Female (in color) 40
Wood Thrush 84
Baltimore Oriole, Male and Female 92
Whip-poor-will 96
Downy Woodpecker (in color) 162





UNDER THE MAPLES

By John Burroughs



CONTENTS

I. The Falling Leaves 1
II. The Pleasures of a Naturalist 11
III. The Flight of Birds 32
IV. Bird Intimacies 39
V. A Midsummer Idyl 69
VI. Near Views of Wild Life 79
VII. With Roosevelt at Pine Knot 101
VIII. A Strenuous Holiday 109
IX. Under Genial Skies 127
I. A Sun-Blessed Land 127
II. Lawn Birds 129
III. Silken Chambers 132
IV. The Desert Note 143
V. Sea-Dogs 148
X. A Sheaf of Nature Notes 152
I. Nature's Wireless 152
II. Maeterlinck on the Bee 156
III. Odd or Even 163
IV. Why and How 165
V. An Insoluble Problem 167
VI. A Live World 169
VII. Darwinism and the War 172
VIII. The Robin 175
IX. The Weasel 177
X. Misinterpreting Nature 179
XI. Natural Sculpture 181
XI. Ruminations 184
I. Man a Part of Nature 184
II. Marcus Aurelius on Death 185
III. The Interpreter of Nature 186
IV. Original Source 190
V. The Cosmic Harmony 191
VI. Cosmic Rhythms 193
VII. The Beginnings of Life 194
VIII. Spendthrift Nature 195
XII. New Gleanings in Field and Wood 197
I. Sunrise 197
II. Nature's Methods 199
III. Heads and Tails 205
IV. An Unsavory Subject 206
V. Chance in Animal Life 208
VI. Mosquitoes and Fleas 210
VII.

The Change of Climate in Southern California

210
VIII. All-Seeing Nature 212
Index 217





WAYS OF NATURE

By John Burroughs



CONTENTS

      PAGE
I.   Ways of Nature 1
II.   Bird-Songs 29
III.   Nature with Closed Doors 47
IV.   The Wit of a Duck 53
V.   Factors in Animal Life 59
VI.   Animal Communication 87
VII.   Devious Paths 109
VIII.   What do Animals Know? 123
IX.   Do Animals Think and Reflect? 151
X.   A Pinch of Salt 173
XI.   The Literary Treatment of Nature 191
XII.   A Beaver's Reason 209
XIII.   Reading the Book of Nature 231
XIV.   Gathered by the Way  
  I. THE TRAINING OF WILD ANIMALS 239
  II. AN ASTONISHED PORCUPINE 242
  III. BIRDS AND STRINGS 246
  IV. MIMICRY 248
  V. THE COLORS OF FRUITS 251
  VI. INSTINCT 254
  VII. THE ROBIN 261
  VIII. THE CROW 265
    Index 273





WHITMAN

A STUDY

By John Burroughs



CONTENTS

  page
Preliminary 1
Biographical and Personal 23
His Ruling Ideas and Aims 73
His Self-Reliance 85
His Relation to Art and Literature 101
His Relation to Life and Morals 169
His Relation to Culture 205
His Relation to his Country and his Times 229
His Relation to Science 249
His Relation to Religion 257
A Final Word 263