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INDEX. 



IMPORTATION of English birds into 

 Australia, 194. 



Improvised bridge, an, 259. 



Infusoria, the, early views respecting, 

 3 Ehrenberg's great work on, 4 

 His classification of, 4 Experi- 

 ment 1 ; in feeding, 5 Many of, 

 now known to be plants, 6. 



Infusorial earths, 14. 



Ink-bag of the Cephalopoda, 95. 



Insects, common opinion of collectors 

 of, 47 Study of, increasing, 48 

 Kirby and Spence's Introduction to 

 study of, 48 Metamorphoses of, 

 50 Errors respecting, 51 Classi- 

 fication of, 54. 



Ireland, introduction of Frogs into, 

 181. 



JACK at church, 206. 



Jackdaw, the, 204, 



Jackass Penguin, the, 195. 



Jamaica, Bat-caves of, 242. 



Jay, the, 204. 



Jelly-fish, the, 27 Their abundance, 

 28 Simplicity of their structure, 

 29 Their rapacity, 30 Pliny on, 

 31 Their venomous powers, 32 

 Pulmonigrade section of, 33 

 Ciliograde, 35 Cirrigrade, 38 

 Hydrostatic, 39 Compound forms, 

 41 Their reproduction, 41 Their 

 luminosity, 44, 45. 



Jocular Toad, the, 183. 



KAHAN Monkey, the, 260. 



Kalong, the, 248. 



Kees, the story of, 262. 



Kingfisher, the, 201 Dispute as to 

 its nesting, 202 Mr. Gould on the 

 subject, 203 Superstitions re- 

 specting, 204. 



Kingfisher, the Gigantic, 231. 



Kirby and Spence's " Introduction to 

 Entomology," 48. 



LABTRISTTIIODON, the, 186. 

 Lace'pfcde's, M. de, eulogy of the Frog 



tribe, 179. 

 Laughing Jackass, the, 231, 



| Laughing Toad, the, 183. 

 I Lemurs, the, 255. 

 I Lepidoptera, the, illustrated woika 

 on, 64 Distribution of British, 

 70 Varieties in the flight of, 71. 

 Lepidosiren, the, a link between ths 



fish and the reptiles, 169, 170. 

 Life in the American forests, 258. 

 Life in the atmosphere, 25. 

 Light, attracting Moths by, 68. 

 Lobsters at play, 150. 

 Loves of the Snails, 80. 

 Luminosity of the Jelly Fish, 44, 4, r >. 



MAGPIE, the, mischievous propensi- 

 ties of, 205 At church, 206. 



Mandrill, the, 262. 



Mandarin Duck, the, 221 Its aflV- 

 tionate disposition, 222. 



Man-keeper, the, 172. 



" Marine stare " collecting, 1 59. 



Martins, a railway colony of, 197. 



Medusa;, the, related to the Polyp.-;, 

 116 Consist almost wholly of 

 water, 28 Their rapacity, iil 

 Diversity of form, 33 British 

 species of, 34 Eeproduction of, 

 41, et seq. 



Melicerta riiyens, the, 24. 



Metamorphoses of insects, 50, 51. 



Microscopic Swans, 22. 



Migrations of young Frogs, 169. 



Mollusca adapted for the aquarium, 

 134, 135, 136. 



Monads, vegetable nature of the, 8 

 Compound forms, 10, 11. 



Monkeys, the, 251 Hands of, 254 

 United to the Bats by the Galeo- 

 pithecus, 255 United to the Kc- 

 dents by the Aye-aye, 257 

 American species, 258, 259, 260 

 Baboon-like species, 263 African 

 species, 265 Slow Monkeys of 

 India, 266 Reverence of Hindoos 

 for, 267. 



Monstrous eg^ of Madagascar, 235. 



Mooruk, the, 234. 



Moss corals, the, 132. 



Moth collector, devices of the, 67, 68. 



Moulting of the Crustacea, 151, 155. 



