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INDEX 



Pig- tailed Monkey, 407 



Pika, 389 



Pike, Bony, Alligator, 224; Long- 

 nosed, 224 ; Short-nosed, 224 



Pilchard, 230 



Pinnipedia, families of, 369 



Pipe-fishes, 205, 229 



" Piping Hare." (See Pika.) 



Pipistrellus, 397 



Pipit, Meadow, 314; Rock, 314 



Pithecia, 404 



Placoids, 209 



Plaice, experiments with marked, 203-4 



Plaintain-eater, 304-5 



Plant Lice. (See Aphides.) 



Plasmodia, 14 



Plasmodiophora brassica, 12-4 



Platalea leucorodia, 298 



Plataleince, 298 



Platanista gangetica, 337 



Platyhelminthes, 71 



Platyrrhines, 403 



PUcotus auritus, 397 



Pleuronectidce , 234 



Pliopithecus, 410 



Plotus anhinga, 287 



Plover, Egyptian, 275 ; Golden, 294 ; 

 Grey, 293 ; Kentish, 294 



Plumatella, 90-1 



Pocket Gopher, 388 



Podicipes cristatus, 284 



fiuvialilis, 284 



Polar Bear, 376 



Pollack, 231 



Polo, Marco, his marvellous tales, 278 



Polybius Henslowii, 119 



Polyergus rufescens, 167 



Polyzoa, 89-91 



Pond Skater, 187 



Pontobdella muricata, 89 



PorcillanidcB, 120 



Porcupine, 388 ; Tree, 389 



Porcupine Fishes, 237 



Porifera, 30-8 



Porosa, 52 



Porospora gigantea, 15 



Porpoise, 339-40 



" Portuguese Man-of-War," 46 



Portunus puber, 119 



Poterion patera, 36 

 Pouched Rat, 388 

 Pout. (See Bib.) 

 Pracochfsrus africanus, 355 



eethiopicus, 355 



Prairie Dog, 385 



Prawn, 117-8; Mantis, 123 



Praying Insects, 192 



" Primary cell," 6 



Primates, 399-410 



Pristida, 218 



Pristiophorida , 218 



Proboscidea, 346 



Procellaria pelagica, 285 



Prosobranchiata, 101 



Protamaeba, 12 



Proteles cristatus, 379 



Proteomyxa, 12-3 



Proterospongia, 21-2 



Proteus, 244 



" Protista," term introduced by 

 Haeckel, 6, 19 



Protophyta, 6 



Protoplasm, 3, 4, 6 



Protozoa, 1-29 ; classes and sub- 

 divisions of, 6 et seq. ; distribution of. 

 evils inflicted on mankind and cattle 

 by, i ; reproduction of, 22-3 



Pseudoechis porphyriacea, 257 



Pseudopodia, 6 



Psithyrus, 177 



Psittaoi, 302 



Psittacus erithacus, 303 



Pteropoda, 106 



Pteropus, 397 



edulis, 397 



poliocephalus , 398 



Puffin, 288-9 Horned, 290 ; nests of, 



273 ; Tufted, 290 

 Pulmonata, 101 

 Puma, 381 

 Purpura, 102, 115 



lapillus, 102 



Pycnogonida, 125 



Pycraft, W. P., on Birds, 265 ; on the 



Ratita, 277 

 Pyrosomida, 199 

 Pyrrhocorax graculus, 317 

 Pythium, 13 



