INDEX. 407 



Golden -plover, fearlessness shown by the, of fire-arms, 363. 



Gold-finch, nidification of the, 369. 



Goodsir, on fearlessness shown by wild ducks of railway trains, 362. 



Goose, migratory impulse of a Erent, worn out, 350; the Siberian feigning 



death, 363. 

 Goring, instinct of, 381. 

 Gould, on migration of birds, 355 ; on nidification of MegapodidcB, 367; of 



Artamtis sordidus, 372. 

 Graber, on migratory birds of Faroe, 360. 



Grey, Sir G., on sense of direction shown by native Australians, 357. 

 Gulls, nidification of, 369 ; parasitic instincts of, 373. 

 Guanacoes, instincts of, 379. 



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Harcourt, E. V., on non-migratory habits of woodcock, 356 ; on absence of 



migratory birds in Madeira, 359. 

 Hare, alleged burrows of the, 372. 

 Hawk, knowledge of time shown by a, 357; tameness of a, at Galapagos 



Islands, 361. 

 Hearne, on habitation of the beaver, 372. 

 Heineken, Dr., on non-migratory habits of woodcock, 356. 

 Hen, wild cackling over her eggs, 381. 

 Herbert, Thos., on tameness of birds at Mauritius, 361. 

 Heron, wildness of the, 362 ; nidification of the, 369. 

 Hewitson, C, on tameness of magpies in Xorway, 363 ; on nidification of a 



chaffinch, 371. 

 Mirundo, migration of, 358 ; nidification of, 365-6, 369-70. 

 Histers, feigning death, 364. 

 Hogg, on migi'atory instinct of sheep, 358. 

 Home, on structure of the proveutriculus of CoUocalia, 366. 

 Homing faculty in animals, 358. 

 Hogstrom, on migration of ermines, 380. 

 Horse, instincts of the, with regard to excrement, 379. 

 House-fly, instincts of the, with regard to excrement, 379. 

 House-martin, nidification of the, 365. See Mai'tin. 

 Huber, on bees pillaging each other, 375 ; on mistaken instincts of bees, 



382-3. 

 Huber, P., on double instincts of a beetle larva, 373. 

 Hunt, Consul C, on birds visiting the Azores, 358, 359-60. 

 Hull, the Rev, J., on nidification of the magpie, 370. 

 Hyaenas, not burrowing in S. Africa, 372. 

 Hyrax, instincts of the, with regard to excrement, 379. 



Icterus haUimore, nidification of, 372. 



Insects, feigning death, 363-4 ; varied instincts of, 372-3 ; double instincts 

 of , 373-4 ; hatched in human body, 375 ; instincts of, exhibited only 

 once, 377 ; instincts of, with regard to excrement, 379 ; migrations of, 

 378 ; mistaken instincts of, 382-3. 



Instinct, of migration, 355-60; of fear, 360-64 ; of nidification, 364-72 ; 

 double in certain birds, 371-73, and in certain insects, 373-4; of mam- 

 mals in forming habitations, 372-3 ; of beaver and musk rat, 372 ; of 



