660 INDEX. 



Blackcap, its loud uote, Hi. 2G1 ; the, 

 described, ib. u.; mi;?ration of tin", ib.; 

 iucubatiou, ib. ; note of the, describ- 

 ed, ib. 

 Black vomit, fatal symptom of the 



Chapotonadas, i. 218. 

 Blanc, Mont, its enormous glaciers, ii. 



39 n. 

 Benny, account of the fish, iii. 532. 

 Blindness, progress of the perception' 

 of a person having it removed, i, 353 

 —355; history of a boy blind and 

 deaf, 3fi6— 370 n. 

 Blindworm, a harmless reptile, describ- 

 ed, iv. 185—6; motion, 180; eyes, 

 ib. ; viviparous, ib. 

 Blood, how affected by the air, i. 223; 



its colour, ib. 

 Blood hounds, employed by Columbus 

 to hunt the Indians, ii. 196 n. ; the 

 Scottish, 211 n. ; laws concerning the, 

 ib. ; English, 217. 

 Bluebird, its colour and change of, iii. 

 2-tO ; uote and articulation, lb ; liovv 

 caught, ib. ; haunts ib. ; note of the 

 red.breaBted American, 251 n. 

 Blushing, how produced, i. 321. 

 Boa Constrictor, the, described, iv. 187 

 n. ; account of one killing a man, 18S 

 n. ; of one shot by Captain Stedraan, 

 ib. 189 n. ; the manner of the life of 

 those kept in the tower, 189 n. 

 Boar, wild, described, ii. 112; their 

 strength and method of defence, ib. ; 

 how hunted, 113; one tamed by M. 

 De Dieskau, ib. n. ; a native of Bri- 

 tain, 119. 

 Bobak, the marmout in Poland, ii. 316. 

 Body, human, its figure, i. 329; size, 

 .3.30 ; weight, 331 ; strength, 331—337. 

 Boiguaca, a great serpent, described, 



iv. 190 ; habits, ib. 

 Bombardier, or exploding beetle, de- 

 scribed, iv. 333 n ; its explosions, ib. ; 

 how produced, ib. ; how used iu de- 

 fence, ib. 

 Bonasus, a name of the bison, i. 530. 

 Bones, the, visited by the blood, i. 378; 

 « experiment proving this, ib. 379; 

 I how affected by age, 379. 

 Bonet Chinois, a kind of monkey, ii. 



437. 

 Bonito, the fish, described, iii. 544. 

 Booby bird, de-cribed, iii. 376 n.; why 



so called, 396. 

 Botany Bay, the natives there describ- 

 ed, i. 397 n. 

 liottora of the sea, changes produced 

 there, i. 194 ; nature of, in tho Red 

 .Sea, ib. ; near America, ib. 195 ; na- 

 ture of, in general, 195. 

 Boyuna, serpent of Ceylon, Iiow re- 



(■arded there, iv. 186. 

 Braidwood, Thomas, Edinburgh, 



taught the deiif, i. 360 n."» 

 Br.iin. first seen iu the embryo, i. 350. 

 Brambliug, a kind of finch, iii. 281 — 2 n 



Bramins, sensibility of their sense of 



smell, i. 371. 

 Breast, human, its form, i. 326—23 ; 

 female, ib. ; its beauty, ib. ; said to 

 be the origin of our ideas of beauty, 

 326, 327 n. 

 Breezes. See Land and Sea Breezes. 

 Brisson, his classilicatiou of animals, i. 



443. 

 Bruce, his account of the rhinoceros, 

 ii. 491 n. ; liis encounter with a 

 hyisna, 255 n. 

 BubaliiS of the aucients, of the cow 

 kind, i. 530; the cervine antelope sup- 

 posed to be the, of the ancients, ii.i 

 53 n. ; a kipd of gazelle, described,! 

 46, 47. 

 Buckland, Professor, his conjectures 

 concerning the fossil hysena,.ii. 253 n. 

 Buffalo, distinguished from the cow, i. 

 541— .545; described, 541 n. 516: 

 thrir habits, 542 n. ; instance of theii 

 docility, ib. ; autipathy to red, ib. 

 and 543 n. ; the Cape, described, 513 

 n. ; its fierceness, 544 n. ; uses ot, 

 548 ; native country of, ib. ; dangers 

 from the, in a wild state, ib. ; method 

 of escaping, 549 ; the domestic, its 

 stock, i. 546 n. ; history, 517 n. ; do- 

 cility and uses, ib. ; state of, in Ben. 

 gal, ib. ; in Italy, 543 n. 549. 

 Butfon, his theory of the earth, i. 25 — 

 27 ; character of, 28 ; Ills opinion 

 concerning the formation of fossils, 

 39 ; his speculations concerning 

 generation, 283 ; his description of 

 the perceptions of a man imagined 

 newly created, 375— 378; his mistakes 

 concerning American animals, and tht 

 panther in particular, ii. 172 n. and 

 173 and n. ; his opinion concerning 

 the camel, 510. 

 Buffoon bird, the demoiselle, iii. 32 



and 3vi2 n. 

 Bug, the, its habitudes, iv. 227, 228; 

 the bed, 228 n. ; the leek-green, ib. ; 

 abounds in France and Italy, ib ; 

 the animal described, ib. 229; co- 

 pulation, young, and eggs, 229, 230, 

 and n. ; antidotes, 230. 

 Bull, musk, its country, i. 540 n. ; de- 

 scribed, ib. ; its habits, 541 n. ; where 

 seen by Captain Parry, ib. ; the wild 

 or urus, described, 529. 

 Bull-dog, the, described, ii 215 n. 219, 



222. 

 Bull's eye, a kind of cloud prognosticat- 

 ing a hurricane, i. 241. 

 Bullfinch, characteristics of the, iii 

 282 n. ; its cry in a state of nature, 

 ib. ; taught to articulate, 283 n. 

 Bullhead, or Cottas, a fish, iii. 534. 

 Bullock's exhibition of rein-deer, ii. 



99 n. 

 BuntiiiL', distinctive properties of the, 

 iii. i!5S n. ; powfr of cracking nuts, 

 ib. 259 n. ; the yellow, described, 



