INDEX 



359 



Mallow, geranium - leafed scented, 

 327 



Marmoset, charm of the domesti- 

 cated, 285 



Marmot, the prairie, 287-8 



Mental evolution of animals, 281 



Merry-lee-dance-a-pole, folk-name 

 of a hawk-moth, 222 



Millais, J. G., on the senses of bats, 

 49 



Mole, whether injurious or not, 113- 

 118 ; persecution of the, in 

 France, 116 ; impending de- 

 struction of the, 116 ; the 

 strenuous, 225 - 7 ; twitching 

 muscle of the, 227-31 



Morris, Mowbray, on dogs and their 

 detractors, 291 



Mother of the Waters, the mythical 

 serpent, 169 



Mus decumanus, 233 



Mushrooms, growing in rings, 164 



Natterjack, music of the, 89 

 Nunn, Mr. Joseph, the sparrow's 

 friend, 114 



Origin of Species, 214 

 Owl, its supernatural reputation, 

 165 



Painted snipe, caught in a mussel- 

 shell, 99 



Peaches and peach-stones, 307 



Pig, social disposition of the, 295 ; 

 a friendly, 297-302 ; a forest 

 animal, 298 ; eating elder-berries, 

 301 



Pine-snake, beauty and motions of 

 the, 155 



Pine woods, effect of living in, 1 ; 

 wild life in, 4-14 



Pipit, a fascinated, 149 



Potato, the wild, 303 ; cultivated, 

 304 ; eaten with oil and vinegar, 

 307 ; ravages of the blister- 

 beetle, 309-11 ; Mother of the, 

 312 ; manner of cooking the, in 

 England, 313 ; what the doctors 

 say, 314 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, a shining 

 Elizabethan, 312 ; his praise of 

 gardens and lawns, 337-8 



Rat, the unloved, 233 ; friendship 

 with cat, 234-7 



Rice Mother, 312 



Romanes, Dr., Mental Evolution of 

 Animals 281 



Rooks, their loose social law, 79- 



83 

 Royal Society for the Protection 



of Birds : Bird and Tree Day 



essays by school children, 6 

 Ruskin, on the serpent's tongue, 



134 ; on the serpent myth, 153 ; 



on serpent motions, 154 

 Russell, Dr., of Brighton, 1 



Sanchoniathan,^ the Phoenician, 



153, 191 



Savernake Forest, a fox in, 52 

 Seal and conger eel, duel between, 



98 

 Selous, on instinctive fear in horses, 



176 



Serpent, use of its tongue, 134-52 ; 

 myths of a great, 158-9, 169-71 ; 

 strangeness, 153 ; origin and 

 universality of worship, 161 ; 

 instinctive fear of the, 174-8 ; 

 Satanic theory, 178-80 ; a Book 

 of the, 186-91 ; the, in literature, 

 191 



Sheep, individuality in, 123 ; a 

 book-destroying, 124 ; a friend 

 of dogs, 127 



Sheldrake, beauty of the, 108 

 Shelley, his Witch of Atlas, 157 

 Silchester, the forest of, 84 ; exca- 

 vation at, 347-9 



Snake, a preserver of the, 16 ; 

 taming a wild, 91-2 ; a frog- 

 hunter, 144 ; shyness, 192 ; a 

 tame, 280 

 Spallanzani, experiments on bats, 



45-8 



Sparrow-hawks, in pine wood, 4, 7 

 Spider, strategy of hunting, 145 ; 



as a pet, 232 



Squirrel, fable of a, 63-9 ; adven- 

 tures of a migrating, 70-73 ; 

 migratory impulses, 70 ; taming 

 the, 233 ; volatile character of 

 the, 286 

 Stradling, Dr. Arthur, on the 



serpent's tongue, 139 

 Stag, lower than the bat, 34 

 Starlings, killed by sparrow-hawk, 8 

 Stoat, a water-vole hunting, 86 



Tabley, Lord de, ghost-moth poetry 



of, 222 

 Tehuelches, children of the Pata- 



gonian, 163 

 Thoreau, on the squirrel, 286 ; his 



" handful of rice " 297 



