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INDEX. 



Kitten, its playfulness, i. 3">7; laws of Howel about the 



price of a, 358. 



Klein, his method of classifying animals, i. 233. 

 Kob, and Kolxi, two kinds of gazelles, i. 308. 

 Kolpoda genus of infusoria, ii. 631. 

 Koomkee, or female elephant, how employed in hunting 



the male, i. 524. 



Labrus, a prickly-finned fish, notice of the, ii. 296. 



fakes, i. 75. 



Lamprey, characteristics of the, ii. 280, n.; the marine 

 lamprey, 281, n.; the river lamprey, ib. ; that at pre- 

 sent served up among the Italians, '280; account of 

 those known among us, 281 ; the fish described, ib.; 

 its manner of swimming, ib.; its adhesive quality, 

 282; mucus, ib.; spawn, ib.; short life, ib.; how taken, 

 283; esteemed among the ancients, ib. 



Lamprey-pie, one presented at Christmas by the city of 

 Gloucester to the king, ii. 283. 



Land-breezes, i. 128. 



Lands, new, formed by the sea, i. 97, 98. 



Lapland, the country of the rein-deer, described, i. 336; 

 rein-deer, chief riches of the natives of, ib. ; their me- 

 thod of defending the rein-deer from its enemies, ib., 

 337; their method of spending the winter with the 

 rein-deer, 337; their comfortable life, 338; their pro- 

 fit from the misfortunes of the squirrel, 439 ; draw 

 omens from the contests of the leming, 457; the people 

 described, 209, 2 10. 



Lapicing, or Peeicit, described, ii. 194, n. ; green lap- 

 wing, ib. 



Lark, song of the, what it depends on for its agreeable 

 nature, ii. 150 152, and n. ; its nest, 152; female, ib.; 

 habits in winter, ib.; the crested lark, 150, n.', the 

 wood lark, ib. ; the short-toed lark, ib.; the clapper 

 lark, ib. ; the red-backed lark, ib. ; the Alpine lark, 

 151, .; the double-crested lark, ib. 



L'tn-a, or Caterpillar state of Insects, ii. 608; larva of 

 musca chamelion, ib.; of British hydrophilus, 609. 



Laughter, how produced, i. 171 and n. 



Launce, a soft-finned fish, ii. 299. 



Lawrence, St, course of the, i. 80; cataract of the, 82. 



Leaf -cutting Bees. See Bee. 



Leaves of plants as seen by the microscope, ii. 599; of 

 stinging nettles, 600. 



Leech, the, its class, ii. 467; the medicinal leech, ib. n.', 

 the useless varieties, 468; that used in medicine, ib.; 

 its description, ib. ; its internal construction, 469; 

 breathes through the mouth, ib.; viviparous, ib. ; size 

 in America, ib.; how leeches should be applied, ib.; 

 the h- leech, 468, n. 



Legs of quadrupeds, i. 238; of insects, 616. 



Leming, boldness and numbers of the, i. 456; propaga- 

 tion, 457 ; manner of its migration in troops, ib. ; de- 

 stroy one another, ib.; their contests considered omi- 

 nous by the Laplanders, ib. ; propagation, ib. ; flesh,ib. 



Lemurs, a group of quadrumanous "animals, described, 

 51 1, n. 



distinguished from the panther, i. 376 and n.; 

 of P'-negal described, ib.; Chetah, or hunting 

 .v.^para, h/8, . 



Lepudogaster, the fish, described, ii. 299. 



Lepisma, the, ii. 621. 



Lerot, a kind of dormouse, i. 453. 



Letters, what most easily pronounced by infants, i. 163. 



Leucophra genus of infusoria, ii. 632. 



LeuvxnhoccVs theory of generation,!. 151; his discovery 

 of the seminal animals, ii. 638. 



, . , size of the, 



429; habits of the, 430. 

 Lichens, seen under the microscope, ii. 601. 

 Lidme, a kind of gazelle, i. 309. 

 Life, destroyed by withdrawing the air, i. 110; dura- 



tion of, in an animal, how it may be determined, 205; 



prolonged by management, ib.; by what affected, 



206,207; love of, in man, 207, 208; its cessation, 208. 

 //, how produced, i. 130; phenomena of, 133, n. 

 Limpet, a small shell fish, ii. 3fi9. 

 Ling, a species of cod, described, ii. 300, n 



Limueus, his classification of animals, i. 223; of fishes, H. 

 293. 



Linnet, description of the, ii. 158, .; identity of the red 

 and gray linnet, ib. 



Lion, the, affected by climate, i. 3GO; description of the, 

 361, n.\ courage of the, 362, .; anecdotes of the, ib.; 

 lion of Africa and mount Atlas, 361 ; their number 

 diminished, ib. ; how attacked by the Hottentots, ib. ; 

 boldness of the African, 362; feebleness of the Indian^ 

 ib.; disposition of the, ib., 363; outward form, hair, 

 muscles, &c., 364; mane, ib.; imperfection of sight 

 and smell, ib. ; method of seizing his prey, 365; iion 

 hunting in Africa, ib., n. ; roar and action, when furi- 

 ous, 365 ; combat with the wild boar, 366 ; rencoun- 

 ters with lions in South Africa, 366, n.; action Avhen 

 pursued, 367 ; its desperate sallies, ib. ; their combats 

 for the female, ib. ; the lioness, 368 ; their age, ib. ; 

 attachment of the female to the young, ib. ; the, of 

 Bildulgerid, ib. ; none in America, ib. ; Aristophanes' 

 advice with respect to trusting the lion, ib. 



Lion-ant, account of the, ii. 472 475, and n. 



Lion, sea, described by Anson, a kind of seal, i. 486. 



Lips, human, their expression, i. 1 70. 



Lisbon, earthquake at, i. 49, n., and 50. 



Lilhophytes, account of, ii. 570. 



Liltorales, shell fish cast on shore, ii. 355, 356. 



Lizard kind, opinions of naturalists concerning their 

 rank in nature, ii. 391; differences among the tribe 

 of the, ib.; colours, ib.; figure various, ib.; distinc- 

 tion from the manner of bringing forth the young, 

 392; three classes thus formed, ib.; distinguishing 

 properties of the, ib. ; beauty of some, 402: the flying, 

 of Java, 405 ; the Chalcidian, the step between the 

 lizard and the serpent, ib. ; the variegated lizard, 404, 

 n.\ the green lizard, ib. ; the nimble lizard, 405, n.\ 

 the sand lizard, ib.; the frilled lizard, ib.; lizards in 

 general, 433, n. 



Llama, the camel of the new world, i. 540 and n. ; co- 

 lours of the, 541 and n. ; habitation, 542 and n. ; size 

 and description, ib. ; usefulness of the, to the Ameri- 

 can Indians, ib. and n. ; description of the, in the 

 wild state, ib. 



Loach, the, described, ii. 304. 



Lobster insect, ii. 621, 622. 



resemblance of the, to the crab,ii. 327 ; manner in 



which it casts its shell, ib., n., and 328, 329, n. ; descrip- 

 tion of the, ib.; the ovary and young, ib. ; its food, 

 328; changes the shell once a year, ib.; how per- 

 formed, 329; state after change, 330; eats its own 

 stomach and shell, ib. ; concretion, within its body, 

 ib.; sudden increase of size, 331 ; contests, ib.; the 

 loss of a claw repaired, ib. ; the extraordinary proper- 

 ties of the animal enumerated, ib. ; varieties, ib.; how 

 taken, ib. 



Lochatce, great gray trout of, ii. 302, n. ; how angled for, 

 323, n. 



Locust, account of the, ii. 479 481 ; number of locusts, 

 480, n. ; their ravages, ib. ; mode of dispersing them. ib. 



Loggerhead Turtles, described, ii. 342. 



Loir, a kind of dormouse, i. 453. 



London, number who die in, of destitution, i. 185. 



Longevity, causes of, i. 205, 206; instances of, 206 and n. ; 

 of the patriarchs, 207; why diminished, ib. 



Lori, its singular figure, i. 510. 



Loricaria, account of the fish, ii. 301. 



Lories, a species of parrots, ii. 114; purple-capped lory, 

 119, n. 



Lorikeet, blue-bellied, ii. Jl9, n. 



Louse, account of the. ii. 456 461, and n.: wood-louse, 

 463. 



Luminous appearance of the waves by night, i. 89, 90. 



Luminous Insects, account of, ii. 548 550, n. 



Lump-fish, the, account of, ii. 289 ; where found, ib. 



Lynx, Ray's mistake concerning the, i. 379 ; distinguished 

 from the panther kind, ib.; described, ib., n. ; where- 

 found, 383; method of taking its prey, ib.; its eyes, 

 bad memory, &c., ib. 



Lyre bird, or Menura, ii. 110, n. 



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Mataguo, a kind of monkey, i. 505, 51 1 , n. 

 Macaw, the great green, ii. 1 17, . 



