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INDEX. 



House sparrows, forcible invasions 

 of, A.333 



House sparrow, A. 321, Jig. ; crowd- 

 ing of, H. 59 



House wren, singular localities 

 chosen by, A. 313 



Hume, his opinion with respect to 

 instinct, F. 290 



Humming-bird, H. 210; food of, 

 F. 173 ; its catching of insects, 

 F. 1?4,^. ; nest, A. 277; A. 278 



M 

 Hun 



rlunter and Blumenbach's opi- 

 nions, F. 125 



Hunter, Cuvier, and Kircher's re- 

 marks, H. 236 



Hunter's remarks on pigeons, II. 

 190 



Hybernating animals, anatomical 

 structure of, F. 265 



Hypna, A. 342, 324, 330 



Hypnumfelicinum, A. 125 



Hypnum prcelongum, A. 314 



Hypnum proliferum, A.. 125; A. 331 



Hypnum tenetlum, A. 262, 318 



Hypnum velutinum, A. 303 



Hypoqymna dispar, A. 76 



Hy striae, Brisson, H. 252 



Icteria viridis, Brisson, A- 212 



Icterus Baltimorus, A. 246, 248, 256, 

 347 



Icterus banana, A. 258 



Icterus mutatus, A. 256 



Icterus spurius, Bonaparte, II. 2 



Illustration from the masonry of 

 earth-worm, A. 101 



Imitation, origin of the pleasure 

 caused by, H. 316; theory of, H. 

 272 



Indians placed gourds for the pur- 

 ple martin, A. 343 



Indian sparrow, nest of, A. 249 



Indicator, Vieillot, A. 379 



Infundibulum F. 112 



Ingluvies, F. Ill 



Insects and quadrupeds, analogy 

 from, H. 56; effects of cold and 

 heat on, F. 197 



Instinct, II. 212; meaning of the 

 term, F. 289 ; identity of, with 

 reason, maintained *by some 

 writers, F. 290 ; animals mere 

 machines, maintained by others, 

 F. 293 ; opinions of different 

 writers on, F. 297 



Instructions in catching prey, II. 

 221 



Internal heat of the earth im- 

 portant, A. 61 



Inventions derived from the lo-.vcr 

 animals, A, 17 



Islands, preference for, A. 73 

 Ivory-billed woodpecker, A. 153 ; 

 history of one, by Wilson, A. 1 53 



Jacana, Chinese, walk of, F. 230 ; 



walking on the leaves of the 



water-lily, F. 230, 

 Jackdaws sometimes burrow, A. 43 

 Jack-snipe, H. 50 

 Java swallow, comparison of the 



gastric glands of with those of 



other birds, A. 297 

 Jay, nest of, A. 196, Jig. 

 Jays, A. 96 



Juncus ma-vimus. F. 207 

 Jurine and Sir E. Home, theories 



of,F. 11 



Keel-bone, point of, H. 232, Jig. 

 Kentucky warbler, A. 86, Jig. 

 King-bird of Paradise, II . 44, 45, 



fig- 



King birds, origin of the notion of, 

 11.43 



Kingfisher, A. 47,^. 



Kingfisher and dipper, walk of, F. 

 218 



Kingfisher described by Aristotle, 

 A. 45 ; mistake of Aristotle re- 

 specting, A. 52 ; singing, Mon- 

 tagu's account of, corrected by 

 facts, A. 54 ; social and solitary 

 habits of, A. 55 ; fishing of, F. 

 170 



Kircher, Cuvier, and Hunter's re- 

 marks, H. 236 



Kircher, various notes of birds from, 

 EL 258 



Knapp's remarks, H. 204 



Kcelreuteria hygrometrica, lied- 

 wig, F. 184 " 



Konijnenburg, M. J., his observa- 

 tions on the birds of passage that 

 frei{ueiit the Netherlands, F. 287 



Lacerta afjilis, H. 84 ; II. 151 

 /Mcerta alligator, Linnajus, A. 121 

 Ladu swain, A. 113 

 J.ayopus Scotiais, Fleming, F. 209 

 Lagopus vulguris, Fleming, F. 209 

 Lamarck, extraordinary statement 



by, with respect to instinct, F. 



295 



Lamina, F. 4 

 Larninaria saccharina, Lamouroux, 



H. 365 

 Lammer Geyer, bearded eagle, or 



vulture, H. 3^1, Jig. 

 Lamouroux, opinion of respecting 



edible mv.ls, A. 29'.) 

 J.ampyris noctiluc.a, II. i_ ; l 

 Language of birds, 11.247 



