INDEX. 



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B. o.rd, customs of nations in the man- 

 ner i>f wearing- the, i. 322?, :ii3 ; diver. 

 sitK'3 in respect of tlie, among- 

 ditturent nation<<, 408 n. 



B'-aiity, female, when it is perfeeted, i. 

 3li ; tastes of ditterent nations in re- 

 ffard to, 31'i, 313; Darwin's tlieory 

 i-oMi-eniinEr, 326,327 n. ; of tlie human 

 figure, 329. 



B"aver, the remains of brutal society, 

 ii. 381 ; its disposition, 382 ; singular- 

 ities in its form, ib. 383 ; their as- 

 sembling, 383 ; formation of a dike, 

 ih, 384; their apartments described, 

 384—5 ; provisions, 385— (i ; how 

 caugiit, 386. 



fiee, Reaumur's diligent researches 

 into the history of the, iv. 318; the 

 three kinds in every hive, ib. ; the 

 labouring, ib. ; tlie drone, ih, and 

 319 II ; the queen bee, 319; Huber's 

 division of tlie labouring b -es, 319 n.; 

 black bees, 320 n. ; structure of the 

 bee, 320; teeth, ib. ; how it collects 

 wax, ib ; Hunter and Huher's ex- 

 periments, 320—2 n. ; the belly de- 

 scribed, 321; honey. bag, ib. 322; 

 sting, 323; community of the, ib. ; 

 four companies in constructing cells, 

 324 ; form of the cells, ib- ; passages, 

 ib. ; uses of the cells, ib. ; manner of 

 constructing the combs, 3'25 ; hrmey 

 cells, 326 ; food, ib. ; stomachs, ib. ; 

 bee bread, ib. ; honey, whence ex- 

 tracted, ib. 327 ; eggs, 3-^8 ; the 

 bee's care of the worm, 329; labours 

 of the worm, ib. : transformations, 

 ib. 330; the young bees, 330—1 ; 

 swarming, 331 ; settling, 332 ; la. 

 hours, ib. ; slaughter of the drones, 

 ih. ; number of sivarms, 333 ; rear- 

 ing of bees, ih; floating bee-houses 

 in France, ib. 334; their wax, 334 

 and n. ; arts in using the propoli-i, 

 335—6 n. ; honey, 336—7 ; the bee of 

 Guadaloupe, 337 ; the humble, ib. ; 

 the wood,338— 341 and n.; tlie ground, 



341 ; the leaf-cutting, ib. ; the poppy, 



342 n. ; the wall, 342—3. 



Beetle, characteristics of the class, iv. 

 373; transmutations, ib. ; analogy to 

 shell-fish, 374 ; cases of their wnigs, 

 ih. ; differences in size, ib. ; dorr, 

 beetle. (See May-bug) ; general 

 characteristics, 379—381 ; the ele- 

 phant, where found, 382; its horns 

 and proboscis, ib. ; the exploding 

 beetle, 383 ii.; the musk, ib ; the 

 larger musk. scented green Capri- 

 corn, ib. ; the rhinoceros, 384 n. ; 

 the Goliah, ih. ; the Midas, ib. ; the 

 kangaroo, ib. ; the golden, ib. ; the 

 stag, 385 n. ; the vhilet, ib. ; the elk- 

 horned stag-chafter, ib. ; the great 

 stag beetle, ib. ; the water beetle 

 tribe, 386 n. ; the niarginated water 

 beetle, ib. 



Bell. See Diving-bell. 



Bellows fish, the, noticed, iii. 524 n. 



Belly of the opossum. See Boiich. 



St Bernard, convent of, its hospitality 

 to strangers, ii. 207 n. ; sagacity and 

 enterprise ot the dogs there, ib. 



Bewailer. See Sai. 



Bezoar, German, a concretion found in 

 the stomach of the chamois, its sup. 

 posed properties, ii. 40 ; describe.i, 4.% 

 44; oriental and occidental, 41 , hog, ih. 



Birds, their adaptatioPiS, iii. 1,2; con- 

 formation, 2 ; feathers, ih. 3 ; wings, 

 4 ; head, 5, 6 ; their internal struc- 

 ture, 7 — 10; incubation, 11 ; nest, 12, 

 13 n. ; hatching, 15 — 18 ; emigration, 

 IS — 23, and 21 n. ; longevity, 23 ; do. 

 mestication, 24 ; classification of, 25; 

 according to Linnsu-, 26 — 28 ; ra- 

 pacious, their general characteris- 

 tics, 45 n. ; their use, 45^49 ; 

 adaptation, 49 ; habits, 50, 51 ; their 

 fecundity small, ib. 51 ; superiority 

 of the female, 52 ; classification of, 

 ib. 53 ; of the poultry kind, their 

 utility, 104 ; characteristics, 105 ; 

 sociability, ib. ; love of eating, ib. 

 106 ; sensuality and infidelity, 106 ; 

 habit of dusting themselves, 107 ; of 

 the pie kind, 148 ; of the sparrow 

 kind, 213; voices of birds, 229 — 232 n. : 

 of the crane kind, 301 ; influence of 

 birds on the imagination, 439 ; com. 

 pared with fishes, 446 n. 



Bird.catching, how performed, iii. 220, 

 i21. 



Bisiayneers, their method of whale 

 fishing, iii. 470 — 474. 



Bishopiiig, a cruel practice to conceal 

 the age of a horse, i. 498, 499 n. 



Bison described, i. ,530 ; where found, 

 531 ; usefulness anion? the Hotten- 

 tots, 532 ; diversities of, 5.33— .539 n. ; 

 colossal species of the, found in the 

 diluvian strata, ,533 n. ; described by 

 Cuvier, ib. ; difference of the bison 

 and ox, ib. ; difterent species of the, 



534 n. ; the true, of the ancients, de- 

 scribed, ib. ; the American dcscribedi 



535 n. ; its habits, 536 n. ; how huut. 

 ed, ib. 



Bisons, fossil, the broad-headed, de. 



scribed, i. 539 n. ; where found, ib.; 



Bomhifrons, ib. ; specimen wher 



found, 540 n. 

 Bitch. See Dog. 

 Bittern, dismal noteof the, iii. 331—333 



the bird described, 3;^l ; its windpipe 



ib. ; habitudes, 332 ; tlesh, 333 ; vari 



eties, 33i n. 

 Bivalve shell fish. iv. 45 and 65 ; core 



pared with univalve. 

 Black bees iu a hive, what they are, iv. 



320 n. 

 Blackbird, the, described, iii. 239 ; ha. 



bitudes, 23Sn.; note, 239 and n. ; nest, 



ib. ; food, ib. 



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