INDEX 



Gophers, an interesting incident, 

 237, 238. 



Grackle. See Crow blackbird. 



Grebe, and loon, 235, 236. 



Gregariousness, its effect on indi 

 viduality, 118, 119. 



Groos, Karl, his work on The Play 

 of Animals, 87, 100. 



Grouse, flight of, 4. 



Grouse, ruffed (Bonasa umbel- 

 lus), 71, 94; drumming of, 177, 

 257; the &quot; Hermit s &quot; incredible 

 story of a, 179, 180; feeble vocal 

 powers of, 257. 



Grouse, spruce, or Canada grouse 

 (Canachites canadensis cana- 

 ce), 260. 



Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, his 

 Chapters on Animals, 124; 237. 



Hawk, broad - winged (Buteo 

 platypterus), 74. 



Hawk, fish, or American osprey 

 (Pandion halia etus caroli- 

 nensis), 213. 



Hawk, marsh (Circus hudsonius), 

 a young, 99. 



Hawk, red-shouldered (Buteo li- 

 neatus), 222, 223. 



Hawk, red-tailed (Buteo borealis 

 and subsp.), 102. 



Hawks, alleged mimicry among, 

 248, 249. 



&quot;Hermit,&quot; his false natural his 

 tory, 93-95; his stories of cow- 

 birds and a grouse, 178, 179. 



Hibernation, 48, 49. 



Hickory nut, 251, 252. 



Home Life on an Ostrich Farm, 

 135, 136. 



Homing instinct, the, a remark 

 able trait, 53; an instance of its 

 workings, 53-57; 99; nature of, 

 235. 



Honeysuckle, a shoot of, 24, 25. 



Horses, ignorant fear in, 123; self- 

 destruction of, 146; 162; a mare 

 and her blind companion, 226,227. 



Hyla, peeping, hibernation of, 48; 

 a second period of peeping, 231, 

 232. 



Indigo-bird (Cyanospiza cyanea), 

 flight song of, 44. 



Individuality, effects of solitude 

 and gregariousness upon, 118, 

 119. 



Industries of Animals, 137. 



Inferences, right, 231-238. 



Insects stilled by the cold, 49, 50. 



Instinct, 1 ; demoralized, 73, 74 ; 

 one instinct overcoming an 

 other, 74; makes up nine tenths 

 of the lives of our wild neigh 

 bors, 74; a kind of natural rea 

 son, 76; in connection with par 

 asitism, 79, 80; importance of, 

 81; origin and development of, 

 81, 82; not always inerrant, 155; 

 machine-like action of, 158, 159; 

 non-progressive, 212 ; nature of, 

 254-257; variability of, 267-261. 



Jackals, 142. 



Jackdaw, the Bishop of Carlisle s 

 story of a, 148. 



Jay, blue (Cyanocitta cristata), 

 Mr. Keyser s young bird, 69, 

 70; hiding instinct of, 161; 251, 

 263. 



Jay, Canada (Perisoreus canaden 

 sis), 204, 260. 



Jefferies, Richard, 131, 197, 203. 



Jesse, Edward, his story of some 

 swallows, 148. 



Katydids, 49. 



Kea, 260, 261. 



Kearton, Richard, his story of an 

 osprey, 137; on the wren s nest, 

 138, 139; on a colony of terns, 

 139; his experiments with 

 wooden eggs, 227, 228; on instinct 

 in animals, 257. 



Keyser, Leander S., his experi 

 ments with young birds, 69, 

 70. 



Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), 

 177. 



Kipling, Rudyard, his Jungle 

 Book, 14; his The White Seal, 

 14. 



Kittens, 75. 



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