INDEX 



Acherontia atropas, 217-19 



Adders, the quest of, 15 ; dreaming 

 of, 19 ; reasons for not killing, 

 20-28; swallowing their young, 

 21 ; measuring, 25 ; capturing, 

 28-9 ; beautiful colours in, 29-32 



Adder-stone, 16 



Agouti, beauty of the, 288 



Aldebaran, an intelligent visitor 

 from, 37-40 



Aldermaston, snake preserve at, 17 



Ants, a danger to fledgelings, 5-6 ; 

 9-10 ; 13-14 



Aquilegia. See Columbine 



Ardea cinerea and A. cocoi. See 

 Heron 



Arnold, Matthew, serpent poetry of, 

 195-7 ; lines on fritillary, 331 



Badger, encounter with a, 51-2 



Barrett, Charles, on ants destroying 

 fledgelings in Australia, 14 



Bastard balm, beauty and rarity of 

 the, 327 



Bats, Pliny on, 33 ; genealogy of, 

 33-6 ; how Nature made, 37-40 ; 

 ferocity of, 41-2 ; migration, 42- 

 44 ; sense organs, 44-6 ; Cuvier 

 and Spallanzani on extra senses 

 in, 45-8 ; J. G. Millais on facul- 

 ties of, 49 



Beddard, Dr. F. E., an authority on 

 earthworms, 347 



Bell's British Quadrupeds, campaign 

 against moles related in, 116 



Bicho mow. See Blister-beetle 



Birds, stories about, 74-83 



Bird's-foot trefoil, on a prehistoric 

 earthwork, 323-5 



Blister-beetle, ravages of the, 309 ; 

 appearance and smell of, 309 ; a 

 rapacious fly enemy of, 311 



Book of the Serpent, a, 186 



Breydon Water, herons fishing in, 

 102 



Britton, J., a story of a fox told by, 

 56 



Browne, Sir Thomas, on fear of 

 serpents, 178 



Browning, grandfather of the poet, 

 330 



Byron, potato with vinegar de- 

 voured by, 308 



Caius, Dr., the British dogs of, 



250 



Cantharides, 309 



Cat, friendship of, with rat, 234-7 

 Chaucer, 318 



Chequered daffodil. See Fritillary 

 Chillingham, the white bull of, his 



low place in the scheme of things, 



34 

 Chinchilla, beauty and grace of, 



287 



Clodothrix odorifera, 349 

 Cobbe, Miss Frances Power, an 



admirer of Schopenhauer, 292 

 Columbine, the blue, in England, 



328-31 

 Cormorant struggling with eel, 98 ; 



as a pet, 233 

 Crotalus durissus, New England 



rattlesnake, 205 

 Cuvier, on senses of bats, 45-8 



Daisies, on old Roman Road, 322 

 Danish farmer, imaginary conversa- 

 tion with a Wiltshire pig-keeper, 

 298-9 



Darwin, on the origin of the 

 domestic dog, 275 ; on earth- 

 worms, 348-9 



Daw, history of a tame, 77-8 

 Death by accident in wild life, 96 

 Death's-head moth, seen in num- 

 bers, 217-19 



Demeter, the Corn Mother, 312 

 Dog, the little red, character and 

 anecdotes of, 238-46 



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