INDEX. 257 



Dorr-beetle, or May-bug, vi. 14-8. See Beetle. 



Dottrel, a small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. 



Doves, the ring-dove, iv. 240. The turtle-dove^ 237. The stock- 

 dove, 234. See Pigeon, 



Douc, a monkey of the ancient continent, so called in Cochinr 

 china, where it is a native ; its description ; forms part of 

 the chain by which the monkeys of one continent are linked 

 with those of the other, iii. 317. 



Draco-volans, a flying ball of fire, i. 322. 



Drag, name given by the huntsmen to the tail of the fox, 

 iii. 49. 



Dragons, the whole race dwindled down to the flying lizard, 

 v. S21. 



Dragon-fly, or the libella, described, vi. 2. 



Dragonet, a description of this fish, v. 119. 



Drill of Purchas, an ape of the ourang-outang kind, iii. 280. 



Dromedary, a sort of camel, iii. 370. 



Drones, the second sort of bees, supposed to be the males ; 

 their cells ; the working bees kill the drones in the worm 

 state in the cell, and eject them from the hive, among the 

 general carnage, vi. 94, &c. 



Dryness, a great degree of it produced by heat, preserves 

 from corruption, ii. 123. 



Duck, when ducks are caught, the men keep a piece of turf 

 burning near their mouths, and breathe upon it, lest the 

 fowl, smelling them, should escape, iv. 9. Plutarch assures 

 us, Cato kept his family in health, feeding them with duck, 

 whenever they threatened to be out of order, 406. Its eggs 

 often laid under a hen; seems a heedless, inattentive mother; 

 of the tame duck, ten different sorts ; and of the wild, Brisson 

 reckons above twenty ; the most obvious distinction between 

 the wild and tame ducks ; difference between wild ducks 

 among each other ; sea and pond ducks ; names of the most 

 common birds of the duck kind among ourselves ; and of 

 the most noted of the foreign tribe ; their habits, nests, 

 and number of eggs ; are, in general, birds of passage ; 

 their flesh ; the ducks flying in the air, often lured down from 

 their heights by the loud voice of the mallard from below ; 

 what part of the lake they generally choose ; what can 

 employ them all day not easy to guess ; manner of making 

 and managing a decoy to take them ; the American wood- 

 duck ; general season for catching them in decoys, from 

 the end of October till February ; taking them earlier pro- 

 hibited by an Act of George the Second, imposing a penalty 

 of five shillings for every bird destroyed at any other season ; 

 amazing quantity of ducks sent to supply the markets of 

 London ; manner of taking them frequently practised in 

 China, 419, &c. 



Dunlin, a small bird of the crane kind, iv. 340. 

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