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Index. 



Cow - bird, Screaming, dancing 



antics, -7o 

 Coypii, 11. 



Craspedocephalus alternatus, 160. 

 ( !ratomorphus, 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. 



DAEJES BABBINGTON, 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 Oxyurus, 248; the 

 pampas, 4, 5 ; persecution of 

 sick and wounded animals by 

 their companions, 339, 343 ; 

 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. 



Dendrocolaptidse, habits of, 235- 

 260. 



Dendrornis, 243, 259. 



Didelphys auritur, 18. 



D. azarae, 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. 



EDENTATES, 16. 

 Elanus leucurus, 95. 



Epeira, 175; hunted by wasps, 

 182 : protective resemblances in, 

 183. 



FEAR, in birds, 83-100; paralyzing 



effects of, 201. 

 Felis concolor. See Puma. 

 F. geoffroyi, 14. 

 F. onca. See Jaguar. 

 Fire, confusing effect of, at night. 



173-177. 



Fire-flies, 168-173. 

 Firewood gatherer. See Anum- 



bius. 

 Fitzroy, Admiral, on the huanaco, 



316 ; on the puma, 50. 

 Fleas, 151. 



Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 

 Fox. 'See Canis azarae. 

 Freeman, Professor, on the humane 



instinct, 347. 



Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 

 Furnariusruf os, 242, 256; destroyed 



by owls, 63; language, 256, 260; 



how it protects itself from para- 

 sites, 145. 



GALICTIS BABBABA, 15; helpless- 

 ness of young, '104. 



Gallns bankiva, its cackling in- 

 stinct, 115. 



Garrod, Dr., on the Crested 

 Screamer, 223. 



Gauchos, their treatment of horses, 

 354. 



Gay, Claudio, on. the puma, 42. 



Geobates, 242. 



Geositta cunicularia, 242, 296, 298 



Gibson, Mr. Ernest, anecdote oi 

 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. 



HAWKS, 93. 

 Henicornis, 242. 



