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Dolichotis, a Patagonian rodent, 

 287 



Earthworms, effect of weed-killer 

 on, 343; habits of, in relation 

 to lawns, 345-6; London, 350- 

 351; heath and sandy soil, 351; 

 chalk soil, 351-2; cause of wide 

 distribution of, 352-6 

 Elsie Venner Infelix, 209 

 Epicauta adspersa. See Blister- 

 beetle 



Fayrer, Sir Joseph, a great ophio- 

 logist, 197 



Fer-de-lance, an impression of the, 

 188 



Flea, origin of the, 36 



Flowers, beauty and charm of 

 wild, 316; adorning waste lands 

 and ruins, 322; on an old Roman 

 road, 323; on a prehistoric- 

 earthwork, 323-5; rare and lo- 

 cal, 326 



Fox, beauty of the, 50-54; senti- 

 ment concerning the, 65; a 

 South American music-loving, 

 58; adventures of a three- 

 legged, 59-62 



Fox terrier, character of the, 253 



Fritillary, appearance of, seen 

 growing in profusion, 331-4; 

 beauty and singularity of the, 



Geranium, O. pyrenalcum, 327; 



the blue, 327 



Ghost-moth, dance of the, 221-2 

 Glanville, Ernest, on the African 



Icanti, 158-9 

 Goafs-beard, various folk-names 



of, 317-18; singular habit of, 



318-22 

 Gould, earliest writer on habits of 



ants, 251 

 Grass of Parnassus, beauty of the, 



327 

 Grey, Viscount, squirrels tamed 



by, 233 

 Guanaco, a pet, in Patagonia and 



its habits, 125 

 Guinea (or Ginny) flower. See 



Fritillary 

 Guira cuckoo, a mouse-killer, 97 



Hake, Dr. Gordon, serpent poetry 

 of, 197-200 



Hawk-moths, 217; death's-head, 

 217-19; crimson underwing, 219- 

 221; humming-bird, 222-4 



Hawthorne, Nathaniel, character 

 of his genius, 203-4; in search 

 of a weed, 338 



Heron, bathing, 93; strange ad- 

 venture with a, 94-6; flight of 

 the, 103; a ghostly bird, 104; as 

 a table-bird, 106-12 



Heronry, a great, 47 



Holmes, Oliver Wendell, story of 

 a serpent girl, 201-9 



Hopley, Miss C. C., on the ser- 

 pent's tongue, 139; her pet slow- 

 worm, 233 



Horse, habit of a tamed wild, 119- 

 122; twitching muscle in the, 

 229 



House-martin, accidentally killed, 

 98 



Humming-bird, flight in the, 47; 

 hawk-moth, 222-4 



Huxley, on monographs, 190 



Icanti, African serpent myth, 159 



James, Henry, on living in a pine 



wood, 3 

 John-go-to-bed-at-noon, singular 



habit of, 316 



Keats, serpent poetry of, 200 

 Kidd, Benjamin, humble-bees 

 tamed by, 232, 280 



Lacepede, on the serpent's uses, 



136 



Lagidium, an Andean rodent, 287 

 Lang, Andrew, on drawing-room 



dogs, 292-4 

 Lawns, feeling about, 337; Sir 



Walter Raleigh quoted, 337-8; 



in relation to earthworms, 340- 



344 



Leibnitz, on a talking dog, 279 

 Lemurs, beauty and docility of the, 



286-7 



Lindsay, Dr. Lauder, Mental Evo- 

 lution quoted, 279; on the dog's 



spiritual nature, 288 

 Long, Sir Walter, dog-muzzling 



order of, 252 



