Ways of Nature

Chapter 17

Chapter 173,309 wordsPublic domain

My friend and neighbor through the year, Self-appointed overseer

Of my crops of fruit and grain, Of my woods and furrowed plain,

Claim thy tithings right and left, I shall never call it theft.

Nature wisely made the law, And I fail to find a flaw

In thy title to the earth, And all it holds of any worth.

I like thy self-complacent air, I like thy ways so free from care,

Thy landlord stroll about my fields, Quickly noting what each yields;

Thy courtly mien and bearing bold, As if thy claim were bought with gold;

Thy floating shape against the sky, When days are calm and clouds sail high;

Thy thrifty flight ere rise of sun, Thy homing clans when day is done.

Hues protective are not thine, So sleek thy coat each quill doth shine.

Diamond black to end of toe, Thy counter-point the crystal snow.

II

Never plaintive nor appealing, Quite at home when thou art stealing,

Always groomed to tip of feather, Calm and trim in every weather,

Morn till night my woods policing, Every sound thy watch increasing.

Hawk and owl in tree-top hiding Feel the shame of thy deriding.

Naught escapes thy observation, None but dread thy accusation.

Hunters, prowlers, woodland lovers Vainly seek the leafy covers.

III

Noisy, scheming, and predacious, With demeanor almost gracious,

Dowered with leisure, void of hurry, Void of fuss and void of worry,

Friendly bandit, Robin Hood, Judge and jury of the wood,

Or Captain Kidd of sable quill, Hiding treasures in the hill,

Nature made thee for each season, Gave thee wit for ample reason,

Good crow wit that's always burnished Like the coat her care has furnished.

May thy numbers ne'er diminish, I'll befriend thee till life's finish.

May I never cease to meet thee, May I never have to eat thee.

And mayest thou never have to fare so That thou playest the part of scarecrow.

INDEX

Adder, blowing, 17.

Altruism among animals, 23.

Ammophila, 117.

Angler (_Lophius piscatorius_), 107.

Animals, the author's attitude in regard to the intelligence of, v, vi; nature of the intelligence of, 1-3; sources of the intelligence of, 4; the sentimental attitude towards, 59-61; emotions and intellect of, 64; language of, 64; curiosity of, 64; altruism of, 65; punishment and discipline among, 65; the three factors that shape their lives, 66; imitation among, 66-70; learning by experience, 70-73; variation in, 73; instinct in, 73-83; incapable of reflection, 77, 78; their knowledge compared with man's, 80, 81; imitation among, not akin to teaching, 83-86; belief in regard to teaching among, 87; play of, 87, 99, 100; communication among, 87-98; fear in, 89, 90; ears of, 95; telepathy among, 96-98; their habits the same everywhere, 101-103; courtship among, 104; stories of poisoning among, 105, 106; stories of trapping and fishing among, 106, 107; individuality among, 118, 119; variation in, 120, 121; ignorance of, 123-125; perceptive intelligence of, 126; partakers of the universal intelligence, 128-130; know what is necessary for them to know, 131; their knowledge inherited, 132; wise in relation to their food and their enemies, 133; and the art of healing, 134; protective coloration of, 138-140; their fear of poison, 140; association of ideas in, 141, 142; emotions of, 143; no ethical sense in, 144, 145; automatism of, 146; and the use of medicine, 147; the truth about them what is wanted, 147-149; the thinking of, instinct in, 151-170; have perceptions but no conceptions, 160; first steps of intelligence in, 161, 162; limitations of intelligence in, 163-168; automatism of trained animals, 166; incredible stories of, 175-184; stories of surgery among, 180-182; true interpretation of seeming acts of reason in, 184-187, 189, 190; absence of language among, 187-189; creatures of routine, 190; the humanization of, 195, 196; nature of their intelligence, 209-230; their minds incapable of improvement, 220-222; the victims of habits, 222; popular notion of teaching among, 233, 234; nature of the homing faculty of, 235; Bostock on the training of wild, 239-242; mimicry among, 248-250; instinct in, 255-261.

Antelope, 85.

Apple trees, protecting themselves from cattle, 153.

Argyll, Duke of, 72.

"Atlantic Monthly, The," article in, v, vi, 173.

Baboon, 65.

Barrington, Daines, 68.

Barrus, Dr. Clara, her description of the woodcock's song and song flight, 43.

Bean, the, intelligence of, 1, 2.

Bear, a caged, 76.

Bear, black, 260.

Beaver, 166, 167; nature of his intelligence, 209-211.

Beebe, C. William, on instinct and reason in birds, 215-217.

Bees, 24.

Belief, scientific grounds for, 173-179.

Birds, mistakes of, 4-6; their nest-building, 4, 5, 70, 71; fighting their reflections, 5, 6; taking advantage of man's protection for their nests, 6, 7; probably make no improvement in nest-building or singing, 70, 71; learn cunning by experience, 71; instincts connected with parasitism, 79, 80; communication in flocks of, 96-98; courtship of, 103, 104; activities of the two sexes among, 111-114; song contests among, 114, 115; and glass, 127; incubating-habits of, 135; shading mate and young from sun, 137, 138; their knowledge of the value of protective coloration, 138-140; migration of, 186; their affection for their young, 215; and shell-fish, 216; have no power of initiative, 232, 233; their handling of strings, 246-248; instinct in, 256-261; variability in, 258-261.

Bird's-nests, an epitome of wild nature, 109; haphazard design in, 109, 110.

Bird-songs, the power to hear, 29; not music, 29; elusiveness of, 30; a part of nature, 30; our pleasure in them from association, 31-34; songs of caged birds, 32, 35; the wing-song, 39-44; individual variation in musical ability, 44-46; acquired by imitation, 67, 68.

Bittern, least (_Ardetta exilis_), eating her eggs, 111.

Blackbird, crow, or grackle (_Quiscalus quiscula_ subsp.), catching a fish, 176; enmity with robins, 263, 264.

Blackbird, English, song of, 45, 227.

Blackbird, red-winged. _See_ Red-shouldered starling.

Black-knot, 27.

Bluebird (_Sialia sialis_), hearing the, 29.

Bobolink (_Dolichonyx oryzivorus_), its song in the home meadows, 36; variation in song, 69; with defective song, 116.

Body, the, intelligence of, 128.

Bolles, Frank, 18.

Bostock, Frank C., his _The Training of Wild Animals_, 239-242.

Brewster, William, 22.

Buds, formation of, 50, 51.

Bumblebee, hibernation of, 49.

Burmeister, quoted on bees, 200.

Calf, a wild, 214; a yearling and its muzzle, 237.

Canary-bird, 159; an incredible story of a, 177, 178.

Carlisle, Bishop of, 148.

Cats, 66, 67, 73; fear of dogs, 75; talking with the ears, 94, 95; playing with mice, 100; watching a mouse-hole, 186, 187; human qualities of, 225, 226.

Cat tribe, their method of hunting, 183, 184.

Cedar-bird (_Ampelis cedrorum_), notes of, 46; nest-building of, 112; and strings, 247, 248; no song impulse in, 257.

Chapman, Frank M., his story of a least bittern, 111.

Chewink, or towhee (_Pipilo erythrophthalmus_), the "Hermit's" story, 93.

Chickadee (_Parus atricapillus_), flight of a young, 70; tameness of, 205.

Chipmunk, 159.

Coon. _See_ Raccoon.

Cow, the, ignorance of, 123, 124, 187, 221.

Cowbird (_Molothrus ater_), 79, 80, 156, 157; an incredible statement regarding, 178, 179, 220.

Coyote, or prairie wolf, 82, 86, 189.

Crab, hermit, 155.

Crabs, defensive instinct in, 169, 170.

Crossbills (_Loxia_ sp.), feeding on young peaches, 261.

Crow, American (_Corvus brachyrhynchos_), winter quarters of, 50; the "Hermit's" story of a crow, 93; nature of his intelligence, 136, 137; notes of, 188, 268; story of a court of justice, 198, 199; maltreating a tame crow, 199; cunning of, 204; a misinterpreted incident, 233, 234; feeding, 265, 266; suspiciousness of, 266; flocking of, 266, 267; meaning of calls of, 268; disposition of, 268; in Bermuda, 268; lines on, 268.

Crow, white-necked African, 135, 136.

Crows and shell-fish, 2.

Cuckoos, 249; eating birds' eggs, 264; killed by robins, 264.

Darwin, Charles, 65, 67, 73, 75, 76, 79, 82, 83, 87, 127, 136, 149, 177, 198.

December, the month when Nature closes her doors, 47.

Deer, 84, 85, 185.

Dipper. _See_ Water ouzel.

Dogs, imitativeness of, 66; show gleams of reason, 76, 85, 88; feelings of shame, guilt, and revenge ascribed to, 144, 145; carrying a stick through a fence, 164-166; language of, 188; Maeterlinck on, 192, 193; John Muir's story of a dog, 193, 194; Egerton Young's book about, 194; hiding a bone, 205; companionableness of, 205, 206, 211, 221; rational intelligence in, 223-225; partake of the master's nature, 224; story of a pointer, 224, 225.

Dove, turtle, _or_ mourning dove (_Zenaidura macroura_), occupying a robin's nest, 7.

Duck. _See_ Mallard.

Duck, eider. _See_ American eider.

Duck, wild, wounded, 213.

Duck, wood (_Aix sponsa_), nest, eggs, and young of, 21-23.

Eagle, 103.

Eagle, bald (_Haliæetus leucocephalus_), 72, 213.

Ears, movements of, 95.

Eider, American (_Somateria dresseri_), killing mussels, 180-182.

Elephants, 76; protecting themselves from flies, 138; an incredible story, 145, 146.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24; his lines on the sparrow's song, 32, 102.

Evolution, 170, 171.

Fabre, the French naturalist, 158.

Farm, the author's, 101.

Fear, instinctive, 74-76; use of, 89; indiscriminating, 89; panics, 90.

Finch, purple (_Carpodacus purpureus_), song flight of, 44; song of, 44.

Fish and glass, 127.

Flocks, communication in, 96-98.

Fly, mimicking the honey-bee, 250.

Flycatcher, great crested (_Myiarchus crinitus_), nesting-habits of, 17-19.

_Forest and Stream_, 69, 93.

Fox, capturing a rabbit, 8, 72; poisoning stories of, 105; stories of crab-catching, 106, 107; intelligence of, 141, 142; misinterpreted stories of, 199; and deadfall, 222, 223; cunning of, 223.

Frog, wood, hibernation of, 48.

Frogs, hibernation of, 49.

Froude, 2.

Fruits, colors of, 251-254.

Golden-eye (_Clangula clangula americana_), young leaving nest, 22.

Goldfinch (_Astragalinus tristis_), flight song of, 43, 44; other notes of, 44; musical festivals of, 104.

Gophers, an interesting incident, 237, 238.

Grackle. _See_ Crow blackbird.

Grebe, and loon, 235, 236.

Gregariousness, its effect on individuality, 118, 119.

Groos, Karl, his work on _The Play of Animals_, 87, 100.

Grouse, flight of, 4.

Grouse, ruffed (_Bonasa umbelius_), 71, 94; drumming of, 177, 257; the "Hermit's" incredible story of a, 179, 180; feeble vocal powers of, 257.

Grouse, spruce, or Canada grouse (_Canachites canadensis canace_), 260.

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, his _Chapters on Animals_, 124, 237.

Hawk, broad-winged (_Buteo platypterus_), 74.

Hawk, fish, or American osprey (_Pandion haliaëtus carolinensis_), 213.

Hawk, marsh (_Circus hudsonius_), a young, 99.

Hawk, red-shouldered (_Buteo lineatus_), 222, 223.

Hawk, red-tailed (_Buteo borealis_ and subsp.), 102.

Hawks, alleged mimicry among, 248, 249.

"Hermit," his false natural history, 93-95; his stories of cowbirds and a grouse, 178, 179.

Hibernation, 48, 49.

Hickory nut, 251, 252.

_Home Life on an Ostrich Farm_, 135, 136.

Homing instinct, the, a remarkable trait, 53; an instance of its workings, 53-57, 99; nature of, 235.

Honeysuckle, a shoot of, 24, 25.

Horses, ignorant fear in, 123; self-destruction of, 146, 162; a mare and her blind companion, 226, 227.

Hyla, peeping, hibernation of, 48; a second period of peeping, 231, 232.

Indigo-bird (_Cyanospiza cyanea_), flight song of, 44.

Individuality, effects of solitude and gregariousness upon, 118, 119.

_Industries of Animals_, 137.

Inferences, right, 231-238.

Insects stilled by the cold, 49, 50.

Instinct, 1; demoralized, 73, 74; one instinct overcoming another, 74; makes up nine tenths of the lives of our wild neighbors, 74; a kind of natural reason, 76; in connection with parasitism, 79, 80; importance of, 81; origin and development of, 81, 82; not always inerrant, 155; machine-like action of, 158, 159; non-progressive, 212; nature of, 254-257; variability of, 257-261.

Jackals, 142.

Jackdaw, the Bishop of Carlisle's story of a, 148.

Jay, blue (_Cyanocitta cristata_), Mr. Keyser's young bird, 69, 70; hiding instinct of, 161, 251, 263.

Jay, Canada (_Perisoreus canadensis_), 204, 260.

Jefferies, Richard, 131, 197, 203.

Jesse, Edward, his story of some swallows, 148.

Katydids, 49.

Kea, 260, 261.

Kearton, Richard, his story of an osprey, 137; on the wren's nest, 138, 139; on a colony of terns, 139; his experiments with wooden eggs, 227, 228; on instinct in animals, 257.

Keyser, Leander S., his experiments with young birds, 69, 70.

Kingbird (_Tyrannus tyrannus_), 177.

Kipling, Rudyard, his _Jungle Book_, 14; his _The White Seal_, 14.

Kittens, 75.

Language, a necessity to thinking, 187, 188.

Lark. _See_ Skylark.

Lark, prairie horned (_Otocoris alpestris praticola_), spreading of, 36, 37; song and song flight of, 37, 38; killed by the locomotive, 38.

Leaves, persistent and deciduous, 51.

Lion, Bostock on the training of, 239-241.

Loco-weed, 83.

Locusts, 2.

Loon (_Gavia imber_), 180, 184; under ice, 235, 236.

_Lophius piscatorius_, 107.

Lubbock, Sir John, on recognition among bees and ants, 200.

Lynx, Canada, incredible story of, 183, 184.

Maeterlinck, Maurice, on the bee, 15; on the dog, 192, 193; his _Life of the Bee_, 201.

Mallard, domestic, finding its way home, 53-57.

Man, progress of, 26, 27; the line that divides him from the lower orders, 80, 81; animal origin of, 229, 230; instinct in, 255; learning through practice, 256.

Martin, Mrs. Annie, her story of a crow, 135, 136.

Meadowlark (_Sturnella magna_), song of, 34; flight song of, 43, 232, 233.

Meadowlark, Western (_Sturnella magna neglecta_), song of, 103.

Mice and traps, 23, 24.

Michelet, 147.

Mimicry, 248-250.

Mongoose, 72.

Monkeys, capable of the simpler forms of reason, 127.

Moose, a habit of, 142.

Moral code, evolution of, 23.

Morgan, C. Lloyd, 143, 149; his experiment with his dog, 164, 165.

Moth, hummingbird, 249, 250.

Mouse, white-footed, _or_ deer mouse, an incident, 163, 164.

Muir, John, his story of his dog Stickeen, 193, 194.

Mullet, 96.

Mushrooms, animals eating, 83.

Muskrat, 211.

Mussels, ducks drowning, 180-182.

_My Dogs of the Northland_, by Egerton Young, 194.

"My friend and neighbor through the year," 268.

Natural history romancers, influence of, 13, 14; methods of, 16, 17.

Nature, an endless experimenter, 24, 139; prodigality of, 27; like a hunter, 27; bound to hit the mark, 28; the tendency to sentimentalize, 108; reaches her ends by devious paths, 110; the thinking of, 152; literary treatment of, 191-208; the interpretation of, 196-201, 203-205; wisdom of, 220.

Newts, migrations of, 219.

Nightingale, carrying nest, 15, 16; song of, 35; song of a caged bird, 35; a song contest, 115.

_North American Review_, an article in the, 61.

Nuthatch, 162.

Nuts, protective colors of, 251, 252.

Observing, rarity of accurate, 107, 108, 238.

Olaus, his fox and crab story, 106.

Oriole, Baltimore (_Icterus galbula_), a published account of a nest, 61-63; Scott's experiment with young, 68; its nest a marvel of blind skill, 110; its use of strings in nest-building, 247; an incredible story of, 248; variability of, 259, 260; song of, 259, 260; destructive in vineyards, 261.

Oriole, orchard (_Icterus spurius_), 260.

Osprey, 137. _See also_ Fish hawk.

Ostrich, 134, 135.

Ousel, water, or dipper, 73.

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.

Snakes, and the power of fascination, 16.

Solitude, its effect on individuality, 118, 119.

Sparrow, bush, or field sparrow (_Spizella pusilla_), nest of, 259.

Sparrow, chipping (_Spizella socialis_), nest of, 142, 143, 259, 154; an unusual song of, 259.

Sparrow, English (_Passer domesticus_), singing like a canary, 68, 257; eggs of, 120; a case of blind instinct in, 160.

Sparrow, song (_Melospiza cinerea melodia_), a city girl's impression of its song, 31; a talented singer, 45; the "Hermit's" story, 93, 94; variability of, 259.

Sparrow, vesper (_Pooecetes gramineus_), flight song of, 39; lark-like in color and markings, 40; wooed by a skylark, 40; low degree of variability in, 259.

Spring, the real beginning of, 51, 52.

Squirrel, gray, 75, 133.

Squirrel, red, nesting-material of, 20; a stupid, 125; and chestnuts, 132; and maple sap, 132; and green apples and pears, 133, 155, 251.

Squirrels, and chestnut burs, 3; their knowledge of nuts, 133; smelling with the whole body, 133.

Starling, red-shouldered, _or_ red-winged blackbird (_Agelaius phoeniceus_), song of, 34.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, on the English blackbird's songs, 45.

Sumac, fruit of, 254.

Swallow, cliff (_Petrochelidon lunifrons_), nesting of, 155, 157.

Swallows, 93.

Swift, chimney (_Chætura pelagica_), change of nesting-site, 8; getting nesting-material, 8, 9; in the chimney, 9; a creature of the air, 9, 10; spring and fall congregations in large chimneys, 10-13; drumming in chimney, 183.

Swimming, 78, 79.

Sycamore, fruit of, 251.

Tanager, scarlet (_Piranga erythromelas_), nesting in a cherry tree, 6, 7.

Teaching among animals, 83-94, 233, 234.

Telepathy, 96-98.

Terns, 139.

Thoreau, Henry D., his "night-warbler," 42, 153, 195, 203.

Thrush, hermit (_Hylocichla guttata pallasii_), with an impediment, 116.

Thrush, song, in the Trossachs, 46; and wooden eggs, 227.

Thrush, Wilson's. _See_ Veery.

Thrush, wood (_Hylocichla mustelina_), nest of, 5; a "singing-school," 94; nest-building of, 113, 114, 155, 156; ways of, 113, 114; song contest of, 114, 115.

Toad, going into the ground, 49.

Towhee. _See_ Chewink.

_Training of Wild Animals, The_, by Frank C. Bostock, 239-242.

Traps, the fear of, 89.

Tumble-bug, 26.

Turkey, 75, 214.

Van Dyke, Henry, his poem on the song sparrow, 31.

Variation, 73; a less active principle now than formerly, 120; various degrees of, 120, 121; causes of, 121.

Veery, or Wilson's thrush (_Hylocichla fuscescens_), song of, 84, 85.

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 87; on mimicry, 249, 251.

Warbler, black and white creeping (_Mniotilta varia_), nest and egg of, 111.

Warbler, grasshopper, 227.

Warbler, yellow (_Dendroioa æstiva_), and cowbird's egg, 80, 156, 157, 229.

Ward, Lester F., his _Pure Sociology_, 112.

Wasps, solitary, ways of, 116-118; instinct in, 158, 159; intelligence of, 164.

Wasps, stinging instinct in stingless, 169, 170.

Waxwing, cedar. _See_ Cedar-bird.

Weasel, rescuing young, 24.

White, Gilbert, on the swallow's nest-building, 167, 168, 203; his account of his old tortoise, 207.

Whitman, Walt, quoted, 206.

Wolf, prairie. _See_ Coyote.

Wolves, 66.

Wood-borers, 49, 50.

Woodchuck, 72.

Woodcock (_Philohela minor_), song and song flight of, 42, 43.

Woodpecker, downy (_Dryobates pubescens medianus_), dispossessed by flying-squirrels, 20; trying to evict a hairy woodpecker, 21.

Woodpecker, hairy (_Dryobates villosus_), and downy woodpecker, 21.

Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, or yellow-bellied sapsucker (_Sphyrapicus varius_), 91.

Wren, European, nest of, 138, 139.

Wren, house (_Troglodytes aëdon_), nesting-materials of, 19; young of, 162; handling twigs, 166.

Young, Egerton, his _My Dogs of the Northland_, 194.

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