392 
Cow -bird, Screaming, dancing 
antics, 273. 
Coypi, 11. 
Craspedocephalus alternatus, 160. 
Cratomorphus, 169. 
Crested Screamer, 20; habits of, 
221-234. 
Ctenomys magellanica, 13. 
Cunningham, Dr., on habits of 
Oxyurus, 248. 
Curtis, Dr., on the Mosquito, 139. 
Cynara cardunculus, 302. 
Datnes BARRINGTON, on_ birds’ 
songs, 257. 
D’Albertis, on fire-flles in New 
Guinea, 173. 
Dancing (Music and) in Nature, 
261-288. 
Darwin, on birds learning their 
songs, 257; fear in birds, 88, 89 ; 
the gauchos, 351; the huanacos’ 
dying places, 316, 317; humble- 
bees destroyed by mice, 62; 
habits of Oxyurus, 248; the 
pampas, 4, 5; persecution of 
sick and wounded animals by 
their companions, 339, 3438; 
sexual selection, 208, 263, 279; 
habits of the vizcacha, 289, 304. 
Dasypus minutus, 16. 
D. tricinctus, 16. 
D. villosus, 17; a mouse-catcher, 
60; a snake-killer, 60; hunted 
by trained dogs, 309. 
Death-feigning instincts, 200-204. 
Dendrocolaptides, habits of, 235- 
260. 
Dendrornis, 243, 259. 
Didelphys crassicandata, 18. 
D. azare, 18; death-feigning in- 
stincts, 202; burdened with its 
- young, 102. 
Dog, dislike of the skunk in, 120; 
domineering temper of, 336. 
Dolichotis patagonica, 11. 
Dolomedes, 195. 
D’Orbigney, on oven-birds’ singing, 
272. 
Drymornis, 240. 
Dragon-flies, instinctively feared 
by gnats, 185; travel before a 
south-west wind, 130-134, 
Epentares, 16. 
Elanus leucurus, 95. 
Index. 
Epeira, 175; hunted by wasps, 
182: protective resemblances in, 
183. 
Fear, in birds, 88-100; paralyzing 
effects of, 201. 
Felis concolor. 
F. geoffroyi, 14. 
F. onca. See Jaguar. 
Fire, confusing effect of, at night, 
173-177. 
Fire-flies, 168-173. 
Firewood gatherer. 
bius. 
Fitzroy, Admiral, on the huanaco, 
316; on the puma, 50, 
Pleas, 151. 
Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 
Fox. See Canis azare. 
Freeman, Professor, on the hnmane 
instinct, 347, 
Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 
Furnariusrufus, 242,256; destroyed 
by owls, 68; language, 256, 260; 
how it protects itself from para- 
sites, 145. 
See Puma. 
See Anum- 
(FALICTIS BARBARA, 15; helpless- 
ness of young, 104. 
Gallus bankiva, its cackling in- 
stinct, 115. 
Garrod, Dr., on the 
Screamer, 223. 
Gauchos, their treatment of horses, 
304, 
Gay, Claudio, on the puma, 42. 
Geobates, 242. 
Geositta cunicularia, 242, 296, 298 
Gibson, Mr. Ernest, anecdote of 
carancho and skunk, 119. 
Golden plover, American, migration 
of, 21% 22. 
Gossamer spider, 184; migrations 
of, 185-188. 
Gould, Dr., on hummiug-birds, 205, 
207, 209, 213. 
Grass-cat, 14. 
Grasshoppers, curious habit of, 
373; mimicry and warning 
colours in, 124-129. 
Guzman, Rui Diaz de, his story of 
Maidonada and the puma, 56. 
Gynerium argenteum, 6, 
Crested 
Hawks, 93. 
| Henicornis, 242, 
