INDEX. 



501 



BEE 



Bee, mason, 178, 179 ; tapestry, 1 79 ; 

 carpenter, 179 ; rose, 179 ; card- 

 ing, 179, 180 



Bees, sense of sight, 143, 144 ; of 

 smell and hearing, 144 ; of direc- 

 tion, 144-51; remembering exact 

 locality of absent hive, 1 48-49 ; 

 following floating hives, 149 ; 

 memory, 151-55; sympathy, 155, 

 156 ; distances over which they 

 forage, 150 ; powers of communi- 

 cation, 156-60; economy of hive, 

 160-8; food and rearing, 160- 

 163; swarming and battles of 

 queens, 163, 164; drone-killing, 

 164-68; plunder and wars, 168- 

 170; architecture, 170-8; way- 

 finding, 181, 182; instinct of 

 neuters, 181 ; recognising com- 

 panions, 183, 184; barricading 

 doors against moths, 184, 185; 

 strengthening combs in danger of 

 falling, 185, ] 86 ; mode of dealing 

 with surfaces of glass, 186; with 

 strange hives, 186,187; evacua- 

 ting fallen hive, 187 ; ceasing to 

 store honey in Barbadoes and 

 California, 187, 188; recognising 

 persons, 188, 189 ; biting holes in 

 corollas, 189; ventilating hive, 

 191, 192 ; covering slugs, &c., with 

 propolis, 190, 191 ; effects of re- 

 moving antennae, 197 



Beetles, see Coleopli'i-n 



Belshaw, on cat knocking J-nockers, 

 4'22 



Belt, on ants, duration of me- 

 mory in, 39, 40 ; sympathy, 48 ; 

 division of labour, 99 ; ecitons, 

 114-19 and 138 ; tunnelling 

 under rails, 140 ; on sand- wasp 

 taking precise bearings to remem- 

 ber locality, 150, 151 ; struggle 

 between wasps and ants for secre- 

 tion of frog-hoppers, 194, 195 ; 

 intelligence of spiders in protect- 

 ing themselves from ecitons, 219, 

 220 ; beetles undermining stick 

 supporting a dead toad, 228 ; in- 

 telligence of monkeys, 480 



Benedictson. on navigating habits of 

 Iceland mice, :!<;}, :'>6.~i 



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Bennet, on birds dreaming, 312 

 Bennett, on conjugal fidelity of 



duck, 270, 271 

 Berkeley, G., on beetle storing its 



food, 228, 229 

 Bettziech-Beta, on termites, 199 



Bidie, on suicide of scorpion, 222, 

 223 ; on reasoning power of cat, 

 415 



Binuk'y, on intelligence of ants, 

 !.'>:> ; carpenter-bees, 179 ; account 

 of alleged training of bees, 189 ; 

 co-operation of beetles, 226, 227 ; 

 ant-lion, 230, 235; domestication 

 of toad, 255 ; fascination by snakes, 

 264 ; sympathy in birds, 272 ; 

 eccentricity of nest building in- 

 stinct, 295 ; education of birds, 

 312; pigs pointing game, 339, 

 340 ; intelligence of otter, 346 ; 

 memory of elephant. 387; vindic- 

 tiveness of elephant, 387, 389; 

 elephants enduring surgical opera- 

 tions, 399, 400 



Bird, Miss, on combined action of 

 crows in obtaining food from dogs, 

 320 



Birds, 266-325 ; memory of, 266-70 ; 

 emotions, 270-82; special habits 

 of procuring food, 283-6 ; of in- 

 cubation and taking care of off- 

 spring, 287-310; general intelli- 

 gence, 310-25 ; dreaming and ima- 

 gination, 31 1-12 ; learning to avoid 

 telegraph wires, 313; recognising 

 painting of birds, 311 ; submitting 

 to surgical operation, 313-14; 

 honey-guide, 315-16 ; appreciation 

 of mechanical appliances, 315-16; 

 concerted action, 318-322 



Birgut latro, 233 



Bison, 334-5 



Blackbirds, breaking shells against 

 stones, 283 ; removing eggs, 289 ; 

 mobbing cat, 291 



Blackburn, Professor H., on dis- 

 tances over which bees forage, 

 150 



Blackhouse, E. 0., on dog being 

 alarmed at a statue, 453 



Blackman, on cats learning to beg 

 for food, 414-15 



