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INDEX AND GLOSSARY 



Painted terrapin, 223. 

 Partridge, 254. 

 PSr a mce' cium, 178. 

 Parasites, organisms feeding on 

 living tissues, whether plant 

 or animal, 



of fish, 332, 333. 



of honey bee, 51. 



of insects, 330-332. 



of man, 131, 155, 158-160. 

 Parasitism, 323-334. 

 Par'thenogen'esis, the production 

 of young from eggs not fer- 

 tilized, as in some cases 

 among plant lice, ants, bees, 

 and wasps, 54, 95, 96, 161. 

 Passeres, 231. 



Peach tree borer, 24, 89, 90. 

 Pea louse, 97. 

 Pearl oysters, 144. 

 Pearly nautilus, 150. 

 Pear slug, 24. 

 Peas, insects affecting, 24. 

 Pea weevil, 108. 

 Perching birds, 231. 

 Peritoneum, 198, 210, 286. 

 Pernicious scale, 98. 

 Petrel, fulmar, 334. 

 Petromyzon, 180. 

 Pewee, 232. 

 Phoebe, 232. 

 Phorodon, 97. 

 Photinus, 112. 



Phyla, same as subkingdom, 28. 

 Phylloxera, 97. 

 Physiology, 11. 

 Pieris, 71. 

 Pigeon hawk, 264. 

 Pigeon, wild, 338. 

 Pill bugs, 140. 

 Pilot, 218, 219. 

 Pimpla inquisitor, 64. 

 Pine-bark beetle, 110. 

 Pine tree borer, 112. 



Pinnipg'dia, 279. 



Pisces, 27. 



Puma, 276. 



Planaria, 160. 



Plantigrade, 266. 



Plant lice, 95-98. 



Plastron, 223. 



Plat' yhelmin' thes (Gr. platys, 

 flat, and helmins, worm), 25, 

 157-161. 



Plethodon, 201. 



Pleura, 286. 



Pleuronec'tes, 194. 



Plum curcu'lio, 107. 



Poisonous lizard, 218. 

 snakes, 313. 



Polar bear, 278. 



Pollina'tion by insects, 54, 62. 



Pol'yp, a fixed individual animal 

 of the Coelenterata, 170. 



Polyphemus, 75. 



Pond snail, 147, 148. 



Porlf'era, 25, 167, 176-177. 



Porpoises, 264. 



Potassium cyanide, 19. 



Potato beetle, 115. 



Prairie dog, 270. 



Preservation of material, 15. 



PrTmates (L. primum, first), 28, 

 280-283. 



Proglot'tides, 159. 



Proinethea, 76, 297. 



Protective coloration, 313-823. 



Proteus, 203. 



Pro'tochorda'ta, 27. 



PrO'toplasm, the semi-liquid ma- 

 terial forming the greater 

 part of the cells, 179, 180. 



PrOtozo'a (Gr. protos, first, and 

 zoon, animal), 25, 178-184. 



Pseu'dopods (Gr. pseudeo, false, 

 and poda, feet), 182. 



Ptarmigan, 319, 320. 



Pulex, 329. 



