INDEX. 



513 



MOR 



481 ; using levers, 481 and 492 ; 

 using hammers, 481 and 485 ; 

 divining principle of screw, 490- 

 5)1; keeping door open with 

 blanket, 481-2 ; allowing tooth 

 to be drawn, 482 ; punishing 

 young, 482 -3 ; destroying snake's 

 fangs, 483 ; concerted action, 483; 

 love of mischief, 485 et seq.; 

 throwing things in rage, 485 et 

 seq. ; pushing slab to which tied, 

 484-7 ; capricious attachments and 

 dislikes, 484 et seq. ; trying to 

 unlock a box, 492 ; playing with 

 fire, 493-4 ; expression of emo- 

 tions, 494-5 ; dread of imitation 

 monkey, 495 



Morgan, L. A., on spider convey- 

 ing insect to larder, 220 



Morgan, L. H., on the beaver, 367- 

 83 



Moschkau, Dr., on intelligence 

 shown by a spider which he 

 habitually fed, 218-19 



Moseley, Lewin, performing opera- 

 tion on a monkey, 482 



Moseley, Prof., on intelligence of 

 crabs, 231-2 



Mossman, Rev. J. W., on wasps 

 coming out of small aperture 

 backwards, 192-3 



Mule, alleged counting by, 332 ; 

 intelligence of, 333-4 



Miiller, Adolph, on instinct of 

 cuckoo, 306-7 



Miiller, F., on powers of communi- 

 cation in bees, 157 ; on termites, 

 198 and 201 



Murray, S., intelligence of his dog, 

 450 



Music, fondness of spiders for, 205- 

 7 ; of parrots and pigeon, 282 



Mygale spider eating humming- 

 birds, 208 



Mt/rimphyllum spicatum, 243 



Myrmeleonformicarium, 234-5 



NADAULT, Madame, the associa- 

 tion of ideas shown by her 

 parrot, 269 

 Napier, Commander, on pigeon 



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making a horse shake oats from 

 nose-bag, 317 



Napier, Lady, recollection in parrot, 

 269, 270; emulation in parrot, 

 276, 277 



Nest, see Nidification 



Newall, R. S., on wasp dividing 

 caterpillar to facilitate carriage, 

 195, 196 



Newbury, on absence of beaver 

 dams in California, 370, 371 



Newton, Professor A., on instincts 

 of cuckoo, 306-9 



Nichols, W. W., on intelligence of 

 pigeons, 317 



Nicols, A., on reasoning power of a 

 retriever, 464, 465 



Nicraphorus, 228 



Nidification, of crustacean, 232, 

 233 ; of fish, 242-5 ; of birds, 291 

 -301 ; petrels and puffins, 291, 292 ; 

 auks, curlew, goatsucker, ostrich, 

 gulls, sandpipers, plovers, king- 

 fisher, Chinese swallow, house- 

 martin, 292 ; tomtit, woodpecker, 

 starling, weaver, 293 ; baya, tale- 

 gailus, 294; grosbeak, 295, 296; 

 swan, 296-8 ; Wallace's theories 

 concerning, 298, 299 ; variability 

 of 299-301 ; of harvesting mice, 

 365 



Nightingales, removing nest, 289 



Niphon, Professor, on intelligence 

 of a mule, 333, 334 



Noctua Etvingii, 238 



Noctivra verbasci, 236 



North, the Rev. W., on intelligence of 

 mice, 361, 362 



Nottebohm, Herr, on ants stocking 

 trees with aphides, 63 



OBSTETRIC-FISH, 246 ; toad, 254 

 Octopus, intelligence of, 29, 30 



(Ecypoda ippeus, 231 



Oldham, A., on jealousy in dog, 

 442, 443 



Orang-outang, removing dead com- 

 panions, 472 ; sense of humour in, 

 475 ; drawing chair to stand upon 

 to reach high places, 481 



Orthotomus, 293 



