INDEX, 



J^SCIINA Bf.NAUIENSIS, 130. 



Aguara, 15. 



Aguara-guazu, 15. 



Animal weapons, 69-82. 



Anumbius acnticaudatus, 147, 253. 



Argyroneta, 195. 



Armadillo, Hairy. See Dasypus 



villosus. 

 Aspisoma, 169. 

 Ass defends itself against the pn-.ia, 



38. 



Atticora cyanoleuca, 296, 298. 

 Audubon and Bachmau, on the 

 . puma, 37. 

 Automalus, 250. 

 Azara, Felix de, on the habits of 



Anumbius, 253; of the oscillating 



finch, 263 ; of the puma, 31, 35, 



40 ; of the tree-creepers, 251 ; of 



the vizcacha, 304, 310. 

 Anecdote of caged rats, 343, 



344. 

 Azara's dog. See Canis azarae. 



BACON, on the dog maintained by 

 a man, 341. 



Bain, Dr. A., on anger, 166. 



Baird, Dr. Spencer, on the peregrine 

 falcon, 97; on the skunk, 119. 



Bartlett, Mr., on the Talegallus in 

 the Zoological Gardens, 87. 



Bates, Mr., on wandering bands of 

 birds, 254. 



Belt, on the bush-tick, 142 ; on the 

 fire-fly's light, 171 ; on man's 

 hairless condition, 143 ; on hum- 

 ming-birds in Nicaragua, 218 ; 

 on wandering bands of birds, 255. 



Bete-rouge, 141. 



Bicho-colorado, 144. 



Bigg- Wither, Mr., on dancing-birds 

 in Brazil, 262 ; on fire-flies in 

 Brazil, 173. 



Bird- fly. See Orni thorny ia. 



Birds, on the pampas, 19 ; aerial 

 dances of, 265; fear in, 83-100; 

 affected by fire-light, 176; how 

 they escape the bush-ticks, 144 ; 

 wandering bands of, 252. 



Black-faced ibis, 265. 

 Boddam-Whetham, Mr. J. W., 



anecdote of puma, 52. 

 Botnbus thoracicus, 154. 



B. violaceus, 15t, 157. 

 Burrowing owl, 24, C6 ; a snake- 

 killer, 73. 



Burton, Captain, on bush-ticks in 



Brazil, 141. 

 Bush-ticks, 141-145. 

 Buteo eythronotus, 175. 

 Byron, Commodore, anecdote of a 



great beast in Tierra del Fue^o, 



CACHALOTE. See Homorus. 

 Canis azaras, 15 ; death-feigning 

 instincts of, 202 ; preying habits, 



C. jubatup, 15. 

 Cai-ancho, 23, 119. 

 Carduus mariana, 303. 



Cat, anecdotes of the, 60, 61, 73. 

 Cattle, strangeinstinctsof, 329-347. 

 Cavia austral is, 13, 64. 

 Ceratophrys ornata, 78, 79. 

 Cervus campestris, 16 ; instincts 



of doe and fawn, 110 ; powerful 



smell of buck, 159. 

 C. paludosus, aquatic habits, 144. 

 Chaja. See Crested Screamer. 

 Chauna chavarria. See Crested 



Screamer. 



Chimango, 23, 91, 93, 94. 

 Chinchillidaa, language of, 265. 

 Chlamydophorus truncata, 16. 

 Ciconia maguari, 62. 

 Cinclodes, 242, 248. 

 Circus cinereus, 94. 

 C. macropterus, 94. 

 Cnipolegus hudsoni, antics of, 271. 

 Cock-of-the-rock, dancing antics. 



261. 



Cometes, 219. 

 Coryphistera, 242. 

 Conrlan, 19. 

 Cow-bird, Common, habits of tho 



young, 90 ; language and anti'j j, 

 I 273. 



