504 



INDEX. 



CON 



Cones, Captain Elliot, on intelli- 

 gence of wolverine, 318-50 



Co/i il urns constructor, 326 



Conklin, W. A., on elephants thatch- 

 ing their backs, 409 



Consciousness, as evidence of mind, 

 2 ; gradual dawn of, 13 



Conte, John Le, on reasoning power 

 of a dog, 460-1 



Cook, Capt., on tree ants, 111; in- 

 telligence of tree-ants, 133 



Cook, George, on dog dragging mat 

 about to lie upon, 466 



Co-operation, of ants, 48-49, 51- 59, 

 64 et scq. (in making slaves and 

 waging war), 85-96 ; (in sundry 

 occupations), 96-100; (in harvest- 

 ing), 108-10, 111-14; (of ap- 

 parently different species), 114- 

 122; (of military ants) 127-30, 

 132-4, 136-40; of bees, 159-74 ; 

 (in general work, wars, and archi- 

 tecture), 177, 178, 184-6, 190-2 ; 

 of termites, 198-203 ; of beetles, 

 226-8 ; of birds, 318-22 ; of horses 

 and asses, 333 ; of bison and buf- 

 falo, 335 ; of pigs, 339 ; of rats, 

 361, 362 ; of mice, 364 ; of beavers, 

 367-83 ; of elephants, 401 ; of 

 foxes, 433 ; of wolves, 433 and 436; 

 of jackals, 432-5 ; of baboons, 

 483 



Corse, on memory of elephant, 386, 

 387 ; emotions of elephant, 393 



Corrus cornice, punishing offenders, 

 323, 324 



Couch, on maternal instinct, of hen, 

 272 ; mode in which guillemots 

 catch fish, 285 ; mode of escape 

 practised by swan, 290 ; birds 

 removing dung from neighbour- 

 hood of their nests, 290 ; black- 

 birds mobbing cat, 291 ; nidifica- 

 tion of swan, 296-8 ; crows punish- 

 ing offenders, 323-4 ; intelligence 

 of hare, 359 ; cat unlocking door, 

 424 ; fox avoiding trap, 428 ; 

 catching crabs with tail, 432 ; 

 mode by which a dog killed crabs, 

 459 



Cowper, on intelligence of hare, 

 359, 360 



DAB 



Cox, C., play-houses of bower-birds 

 presented by him to Sydney Mu- 

 seum, 280 



Crabs, 2:! 1-4 



Craven, on intelligence of a sow, 

 340 



Crehore, on foxes avoiding traps, 

 428, 429 ; on dog recognising por- 

 trait, 453 



Cripps, his elephant dying under 

 emotional disturbance, 396 



Criterion of mind, 4-8 



Crocodiles, 263 



Crow, Capt. Hugh, on sympathy 

 shown by monkeys for sick com- 

 panion, 473, 474 



Crows, memory of, 266 ; breaking 

 shells by dropping them on the 

 stones, 283 ; punishing offenders, 

 323-5 



Cruelty, of cat, 413 



Crustacea, 231-34 



Cuckoo, parasitic instincts of, 301-7; 

 eggs of coloured like those of the 

 bird in whose nest they are laid, 

 307-9 ; American, 305, 306 



Curiosity, of fish, 247 ; of birds, 

 278, 279 ; of ruminants and 

 swine, 335 ; of monkeys, 477 



Cnrlew, nidification of. 292 



Cuvier, his orang drawing chair to 

 stand upon to reach a latch, 481 ; 

 on birds dreaming, 312 



DACE, tamed, 246 

 Dampier, on frigate-pelicans 

 plundering boobies. 284 ; on mon- 

 keys hammering oyster shells with 

 stones, 481 



Daphnia -pulcx, seeking light, es- 

 pecially yellow ray, 23 



Darwin, Charles, on apparent intel- 

 ligence of worms, 24 ; of oyster, 

 25 ; of snail, 27 ; Mr. Hague'sletter 

 to, on powers of communication in 

 ants, 54-7 ; observations on ants 

 keeping aphides, 60, 61 ; on ants 

 making slaves, 64, 66, 67 ; com- 

 munications of Lincecum to, on 

 harvesting ants, 103, 1 07 ; on pro- 

 portional size of ants' brain, 140 ; 

 communication of Miiller on 



