liday was done. For the last time, perhaps, I listened to the
mocking-bird and the cardinal, as by and by, when the grand holiday is
over, I shall listen to my last wood thrush and my last bluebird. But
what then? Florida fields are still bright, and neither mocking-bird nor
cardinal knows aught of my absence. And so it _will_ be.

"When you and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last."

None the less, it is good to have lived our day and taken our peep at
the mighty show. Ten thousand things we may have fretted ourselves
about, uselessly or worse. But to have lived in the sun, to have loved
natural beauty, to have felt the majesty of trees, to have enjoyed the
sweetness of flowers and the music of birds,--so much, at least, is not
vanity nor vexation of spirit.

INDEX.

Air-plants,
Alligator,
Azalea,

Baptisia,
Beggar's-ticks,
Blackberry,
Blackbird, red--wing,
Bladderwort,
Bluebird,
Blue-eyed Grass,
Butterworts,
Buzzard, turkey,

Calopogon,
Carrion Crow (Black Vulture),
Catbird,
Cedar-bird,
Cedar, red,
Chat, yellow-breasted,
Cherokee Rose,
Cherry, wild,
Chewink (Towhee):--
red-eyed,
white--eyed,
Chickadee, Carolina,
Chimney Swift,
Chuck-will's-widow,
Clematis Baldwinii,
Clover, buffalo,
Cloudberry,
Coot (Fulica americana),
Coquina Clam,
Coreopsis,
Cormorant,
Crab-apple,
Creeper, black-and-white,
Cross-vine,
Crow,
Cuckoo, yellow-billed,
Cypress-tree,

Dabchick,
Dove:--
Carolina,
ground,
Duck, wood,

Eagle, bald,
Egret:--
great white,
little white,

Fish-hawk,
Flicker (Golden-winged Woodpecker),
Flowering Dogwood,
Flycatchers:--
Acadian,
crested,
kingbird,
phoebe,
wood pewee,
Fringe-bush,
Frogs,

Gallinule:--
Florida,
purple,
Gannet,
Gnatcatcher, blue-gray,
Golden club,
Goldenrod,
Grackle, boat-tailed,
Grebe, pied-billed,
Grosbeak:--
cardinal,
blue,
Gull:--
Bonaparte's,
ring-billed,

Hawk:--
fish,
marsh,
red-shouldered,
sparrow,
swallow-tailed,
Heron:--
great blue,
great white (_or_ Egret),
green,
little blue,
Louisiana,
night (black-crowned),
Honeysuckle:--
scarlet,
white,
Houstonia, round-leaved,
Humming-bird, ruby-throated,
Hypoxis,

Iris versicolor,

Jay:--
Florida,
Florida blue,
Judas-tree,

Killdeer Plover,
Kingbird,
Kingfisher,
Kinglet, ruby--crowned,
Kite, fork-tailed,
Krigia,

Lantana,
Lark, meadow,