INDEX. 



501 



BEE 



Bee, mason, 178, 179 ; tapestry, 179 ; 

 carpenter, 179 ; rose, 179 ; card- 

 ing, 179, 180 



Bees, sense of sight, 143, 144 ; of 

 smell and hearing, 144 ; of direc- 

 tion, 144-51; remembering exact 

 locality of absent hive, 148-49 ; 

 following floating hives, 149 ; 

 memory, 151-55; sympathy, 155, 

 156 ; distances over which they 

 forage, 150 ; powers of communi- 

 cation, 156-60; economy of hive, 

 160-8 ; food and rearing, 160- 

 163 ; swarming and battles of 

 queens, 163, 164; drone-killing, 

 164-68 ; plunder and wars, 168- 

 170; architecture, 170-8; way- 

 finding, 181, 182 ; instinct of 

 neuters, 181 ; recognising com- 

 panions, 183, 184; barricading 

 doors against moths, 184, 185 ; 

 strengthening combs in danger of 

 falling, 185, 1 86 ; mode of dealing 

 with surfaces of glass, 186; with 

 strange hives, 186, 187 ; evacua- 

 ting fallen hive, 187 ; ceasing to 

 store honey in Barbadoes and 

 California, 187, 188 ; recognising 

 persons, 188, 189 ; biting holes in 

 corollas, 189; ventilating hives, 

 191, 192 ; covering slugs, Sec, with 

 propolis, 190, 191 ; effects of re- 

 moving antennae, 197 



Beetles, see Coleojftera 



Belshaw, on cat knocking knockers, 

 422 



Belt, on ants, duration of me- 

 mory in, 3d, 40 ; sympathy, 48 ; 

 division of labour, 99 ; ecitons, 

 114-19 and 138 ; tunnelling 

 under rails, 140; on sand-wasp 

 taking precise bearings to remem- 

 ber locality, 150, 151 ; struggle 

 between wasps and ants for secre- 

 tion of frog-hoppers, 194, 195 ; 

 intelligence of spiders in protect- 

 ing themselves from ecitons, 219, 

 220; beetles undermining stick 

 supporting a dead toad, 228 ; in- 

 telHgence of monkeys, 480 



Benedictson, on navigating habits of 

 Iceland mice, 364, 365 



BLA 



Bennet, on birds dreaming, 312 



Bennett, on conjugal fidelity of 

 duck, 270, 271 



Berkeley, Gr., on beetle storing its 

 food, 228, 229 



Bettziech-Beta, on termites, 199 



Bidie, on suicide of scorpion, 222, 

 223; on reasoning power of cat, 

 415 



Bingley, on intelligence of ants, 

 133 ; carpenter-bees, 179 ; account 

 of alleged training of bees, 189 ; 

 co-operation of beetles, 226, 227 ; 

 ant-lion, 230, 235; domestication 

 of toad, 255 ; fascination by snakes, 

 264 ; sympathy in birds, 272 ; 

 eccentricity of nest building in- 

 stinct, 295 ; education of birds, 

 312; pigs pointing game, 339» 

 340 ; intelligence of otter, 346 ; 

 memory of elephant, 387 ; vindic- 

 tiveness of elephant, 387, 389; 

 elephants enduring surgical opera- 

 tions, 399, 400 



Bird, Miss, on combined action of 

 crows in obtaining food from dogs, 

 320 



Birds, 266-325 ; memory of, 266-70; 

 emotions, 270-82 ; special habits 

 of procuring food, 283-6 ; of in- 

 cubation and taking care of off- 

 spring, 287-310; general intelli- 

 gence, 310-25 ; dreaming and ima- 

 gination, 311-12 ; learning to avoid 

 telegraph wires, 313; recognising 

 paintingof birds, 311 ; submitting 

 to surgical operation, 313-14; 

 honey-guide, 315-16 ; appreciation 

 of mechanical appliances, 315-16; 

 concerted action, 318-322 



Birffus latro, 233 



Bison, 334-5 



Blackbirds, breaking shells against 

 stones, 283 ; removing eggs, 289 ; 

 mobbing cat, 291 



Blackburn, Professor H., on dis- 

 tances over which bees forage, 

 150 



Blackhouse, R. 0., on dog being 

 alarmed at a statue, 453 



Blackman, on cats learning to beg 

 for food, 414-15 



