392 



Index. 



Cow - bird, Screaming, dancing 



antics, 273. 

 Coypu, 11. 



Craspedocephalus alternatus, 160. 

 Cratomorphus, 169. 

 Crested Screamer, 20; habits of, 



221-234 



Ctenomys magellanica, 13. 

 Cnnaingham, Dr., on habits of 



Oxyurus, 248. 



Curtis, Dr., on the Mosquito, 139. 

 Cynara cardunculus, 302. 



DAINES BABBINGTON, on birds' 

 songs, 257. 



D'Albertis, on fire-flies in New 

 Guinea, 173. 



Dancing (Music and) in Nature, 

 261-288. 



Darwin, on birds learning their 

 songs, 257 ; fear in birds, 88, 89 ; 

 the gauchos, 351 ; the huanacos' 

 dying places, 316, 317; humble- 

 bees destroyed by mice, 62 ; 

 habits of Oxyurus, 248; the 

 pampas, 4, 5 ; persecution of 

 sick and wounded animals by 

 their companions, 339, 343 ; 

 sexual selection, 208, 263, 279; 

 habits of the vizcacha, 289, 304. 



Dasypus minutus, 16. 



D. tricinctus, 16. 



D. villosus, 17; a mouse-catcher, 

 60; a snake-killer, 60; hnnted 

 by trained dogs, 309. 



Death-feigning instincts, 200-204. 



Dendrocolaptidae, habits of, 235- 

 260. 



Dendrornis, 243, 259. 



Didelphys orassicaudata, 18. 



D. azaras, 18 ; death- feigning in- 

 stincts, 202 ; burdened with its 

 young, 102. 



Dog, dislike of the skunk in, 120 ; 

 domineering temper of, 336. 



Dolichotis patagonica, 11. 



Dolomedes, 195. 



D'Orbigney, on oven-birds' singing, 

 272. 



Drymornis, 240. 



Dragon-flies, instinctively feared 

 by gnats, 135; travel before a 

 south-west wind, 130-134. 



EDENTATES, 16. 

 Elanus leucurus, 95. 



Epei'ra, 175; hunted by wasps, 

 182 : protective resemblances in, 

 183. 



FEAE, in birds, 83-100; paralyzing 



effects of, 201. 

 Felis concolor. See Puma. 

 F. geoffroyi, 14. 

 F. onca. See Jaguar. 

 Fire, confusing effect of, at night, 



173-177. 



Fire-flies, 168-173. 

 Firewood gatherer. See Anum- 



bius. 

 Fitzroy, Admiral, on the huanaco, 



316 ; on the puma, 50. 

 Fleas, 151. 



Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 

 Fox. See Canis azarae. 

 Freeman, Professor, on the humane 



instinct, 347. 



Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 

 Furnariusrufu s,242, 256; destroyed 



by owls, 63 ; language, 256, 260; 



how it protects itself from para- 



sites, 145. 



BAHBAEA, 15; helpless- 



ness of young, 104. 

 Gallus bankiva, its cackling in- 



stinct, 115. 

 Garrod, Dr., on the Crested 



Screamer, 223. 

 Gauchos, their treatment of horses, 



354. 



Gay, Claudio, on the puma, 42. 

 Geobates, 242. 



Geositta cunicularia, 242, 296, 298 

 Gibson, Mr. Ernest, anecdote of 



carancho and skunk, 119. 

 Golden plover, American, migration 



of, 21, 22. 

 Gossamer spider, 184; migrations 



of, 185-188. 

 Gould, Dr., on humming-birds, 205, 



207, 209, 213. 

 Grass-cat, 14. 

 Grasshoppers, curious habit of, 



373 ; mimicry and warning 



colours in, 124-129. 

 Guzman, Bui Diaz de, his story of 



Maidonada and the puma, 56. 

 Gynerium argenteum, 6. 



HAWKS, 93. 

 Henicornis, 242. 



