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INDEX. 



Marsupials, 576. 

 Martin, 679, 680. 



sand, 558. 

 Massascus, 594. 

 Massena quail, 486. 

 .Mastodon, 619. 

 May-beetles, 210. 

 May-fly, 191. 

 Measuring-worm, 268. 

 Meat-fly, 260. 

 Meckelia, 62. 

 Megachile, 238. 

 Megapode, 496. 

 Menhaden, 316. 

 Menobranchus, 358. 

 Menura, 552. 

 Melanogrammus, 345. 

 Meleagrina, 85. 

 Meleagris, 496. 

 Melicerta, 72. 

 Melicertum, 20. 

 Melu-rsus, 672. 

 Merganser, 457. 

 Mergus, 457. 

 Merino, 648. 

 Mermaid, 660. 

 Mermis, 61. 

 Mesoderm, 11. 

 Metamorphosis, 124. 

 Metamorphoses of in- 

 sects, 170. 

 Metazoa, 3. 

 Mexican cat, 663. 

 Mexican deer, 637. 

 Mice, 596. 



singing, 596. 

 Microgaster, 220. 

 Milk-snake, 378. 

 Millipedes, 167. 

 Milyas, 255. 

 Mink, 679. 

 Minnow, mud, 325. 

 Mire-drum, 468. 

 Mirror-carp, 314. 

 Mississippi kite, 519 

 Mite, cheese, 261. 

 Mites, 154, 105. 

 Mitra, 102. 

 Mitres, 102. 

 Moa, 432. 

 Moccasin, 390. 

 Mocking-bird, 558. 

 Mole, common, 607. 



star- nosed, 608. 

 Mole-cricket, 178. 

 Mole-rat, 594. 

 Moles, 607. 

 Mollie cotton-tail, 588. 



Molluscoida, 73. 

 Molluscs, 77. 



air-breathing, 98. 



anatomy of, 78. 



ear of, 84. 



eyes of, 83, 97, 100, 

 113. 



naked, 97. 



parasitic, 105. 



poison, 104. 



pulmonate, 98. 



sense-organs of, 97. 

 Moloch, 393. 

 Molting, 125, 141, 155, 



424. 

 Monal, 494. 

 Money-cowry, 107. 

 Mongoose, 686. 

 Monitor, 402. 

 Monkeys, 698. 

 Monster, Gila, 400. 

 Moose, 637. 

 Morocco, 649. 

 Morpho, 283. 

 Morphnus, 513. 

 Moschus, 634. 

 Mosquito, 257, 262. 

 Moss-animals, 73, 74. 

 Moss-bunker, 331. 

 Moth, Ailanthus, 272, 

 275. 



carpet, 265. 



Cecropia, 272, 275. 



.clothes, 265. 



coddling, 266. 



cotton, 271. 



currant, 268. 



gooseberry, 269. 



grain, 266. 



hawk, 277. 



honey, 267. 



hop-vine, 268. 



humming-bird, 277. 



io, 171, 276. 



juniper, 269. 



luna, 276. 



Maia, 171, 277. 



noctuid, 269. 



owlet, 279. 



Prometheus, 277. 



silk-worm, 272. 



tiger, 277. 



tobacco, 278. 



tussock, 277. 



underwing, 270. 



yama-mai, 272. 

 Mother Carey's chicken, 

 445. 



Moths, 265. 

 Mot-mots, 540. 

 Mountain-beaver, 600. 

 Mountain- boomer, 600. 

 Mountain- goat, 648. 

 Mountain- witch, 501. 

 Mouse, deer, 596. 



house, 596. 



jumping, 592. 



kangaroo, 592. 



pocket, 592. 



white-footed, 596. 

 Mud-dauber wasp, 236. 

 Mud-eel, 359. 

 Mud-fish, 307. 

 Mud- minnow, 325. 

 Mud-shad, 317. 

 Mule, 626. 

 Mullet, 328, 340. 

 Murex, 103. 

 Murres, 439. 

 Muscardine, 274. 

 Museum-beetle, 213. 

 Museum-pests, 212. 

 Mushroom-coral, 31. 

 Musk, 633. 

 Musk-beaver, 594. 

 Musk-deer, 633. 

 Muskellunge, 324. 

 Musk-ox, 650. 

 Muskrat, 594. 

 Musquash, 594. 

 Mussels, fresh-water, 

 87, 88. 



salt-water, 89. 

 Mustela, 679. 

 Mustelus, 296. 

 Mute swan, 459. 

 Mya, 80, 93. 

 Mygale, 158. 

 Mymecophaga, 686. 

 Myriapods, 167. 

 Myriotrochus, 50. 

 Myrmeleon, 193. 

 Mysis, 141. 

 Mytilus, 89. 

 Myxospongiae, 12. 

 Myzostorna, 70. 



N. 



Nais, 66. 

 Naja, 381. 

 Naked molluscs, 97. 

 Nandu, 431. 

 Narwal, 653. 

 Nasua, 667. 

 Natica, 107. 



Nauplius, 129. 

 Nautilus, 112. 

 Nebalia, 136. 

 Necrophorus, 214. 

 Nectarinia, 567. 

 Necturus, 358. 

 Needle-fish, 328. 

 Nemerteans, 62. 

 Nephthys, 68. 

 Neoptolemus, 283. 

 Neptune's frill, 74. 

 Neptunus, 148. 

 Nereis, 68. 

 Nettle-cells, 18. 

 Newt, 362. 

 Nicobar pigeon, 500. 

 Night-hawk, 539. 

 Nightingale, 556. 

 Nilgau, 643. 

 Nine-killer, 560. 

 Noctuids, 269. 

 Norway rat, 595. 

 Notochord, 290. 

 Notonecta, 254. 

 Nucleus, 2. 

 Nudibranchs, 97. 

 Nut- hatches, 560. 

 Nutria, 592. 

 Nyctala, 526. 

 Nycteribia, 263. 



O. 



Obelia, 22, 23. 

 Octopus, 115. 

 CEstrus, 260. 

 Oil, cod-liver, 297. 

 Oil-shark, 297. 

 Oil-beetles, 203. 

 Oil-bottles, 203. 

 Old-fashioned birds,. 



424. 

 Oliva, 102. 

 Olive-shell, 102. 

 Ommastrephes, 118. 

 Onchidiuni, 100. 

 Oncideres, 199. 

 Ondatra, 594. 

 Ophiobolus, 377. 

 Ophiocephalus, 330. 

 Ophiophagus, 383. 

 ( tphiothrix, 43. 

 ( )phiuroids, 43. 

 Opisthocoelum, 54. 

 Opossums, 577. 

 Opossum-shrimp, 141. 

 Orang, 706, 709. 

 Orang-utan, 709. 



