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Dogs, friendly with lamb, 128 ; 

 effect of muzzling order on, 247- 

 264 ; artificial instincts in, 272 



Dolichotis, a Patagonian rodent, 



287 



Earthworms, effect of weed-killer 

 on, 343 ; habits of, in relation to 

 lawns, 345-6 ; London, 350-51 ; 

 heath and sandy soil, 351 ; chalk 

 soil, 351-2 ; cause of wide dis- 

 tribution 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 local, 

 326 



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

 ment concerning the, 55 ; 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, 

 334-6 



Geranium, G. pyrenaicum, 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 adven- 

 ture 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 serpent'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 Evolu- 

 tion quoted, 279 ; on the dog's 



spiritual nature, 288 

 Long, Sir Walter, dog-muzzling 



order of, 252 

 Luys, Dr., the revolving mirror of, 



149 



Macroglossa stellatarum, 224 

 Maize Mother, ancient worship of 

 the, 312 



