386 
Cow - bird, 
antics, 273. 
Coyput, 11. 
Screaming, 
Craspedocephalus alternatus, 160. : 
Cratomorphus, 169. 
Crested Screamer, 20; habits of, 
221-234. 
Ctenomys magellanica, 13. 
Cunningham, Dr., on habits of 
Oxyuras, 248. 
Curtis, Dr., on the Mosquito, 159. 
Cynara cardunculus, 302. 
Datnes BarrRInGTon, on_ birds’ 
songs, 257. 
D’Albertis, on fire-flies 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 Oxyuras, 248; the 
pampas, 4, 5; persecution of 
sick and wounded animals by 
their companions, 339, 543; 
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. 
Dendrocolaptide, habits of, 235— 
260. 
Deudrornis, 24:3, 259. 
Didelphys auritur, 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, 135; travel before a 
south-west wind, 130-134. 
Epentates, 16. 
Elanus leucurus, 95. 
Index. 
dancing | Epeira, 175; hunted by wasps, 
182: protective resemblances in, 
183. 
Fear, in birds, 83-100; paralyzing 
effects of, 201. 
Felis concolor. 
F. geoffroyi, 14. 
F. onca. See Jaguar. 
Fire, confusing effect of, at night, 
173-177. 
See Puma. 
| Fire-flies, 168-173. 
Firewood gatherer. 
bius. 
Fitzroy, Admiral, on the huanaco, 
516; on the puma, 50. 
Fleas, 151. 
Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 
Fox. See Canis azaree. 
Freeman, Professor, on the humane 
instinct, 347. 
Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 
Furnariusrutus, 242,256; destroyed 
by owls, 63; language, 256, 260; 
how it protects itself from para- 
sites, 145. 
See Anum- 
GALECTES BARBARA, 15; helpless- 
ness of young, 104. 
Gallus bankiva, its cackling in- 
stinct, 115. 
Garrod, Dr., on 
Screamer, 223. 
Gauchos, their treatment of horses, 
Bod, 
Gay, Claudio, on the puma, 42. 
Geobates, 242. 
Geositta cunicularia, 242, 296, 298. 
Gibson, Mr. Hrnest, anecdote of 
carancho and skunk, 119. 
Golden plover, American, migration 
of, 21, 22. 
Gossamer spider, 184; migrations 
of, 185-188. 
Gould, Dr., on humming-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 
Maldonada and the puma, 56. 
Gynerium argenteum, 6, 
the Crested 
Hawks, 93. 
Henicornis, 242. 
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