506 



INDEX. 



EAG 



EAGLE, plundering instinct of 

 white-headed, 284 ; teaching 

 young to fly, 290 ; variations in 

 nest-building, 299; submitting to 

 surgical operations, 313, 314 



Earwig, 229, 230 



Bbrard, on co-operation of ants, 132 



Ecliinodermata, movements of, 23 



Edmonson, Dr., on crows punishing 

 offenders, 323, 324 



Edward, on intelligence of frogs, 

 255 ; sympathy of terns for 

 wounded companion, 274, 275 ; 

 crows breaking shells by dropping 

 them on stones, 283 ; co-operation 

 of turnstones, 321 



Edward, H., on honey-making ants, 

 111-14 



Eimer, Dr., on voluntary and in- 

 voluntary movements of Mediisce, 

 22, 23 



Elephant, general remarks upon, 386; 

 memory of, 386, 387; emotions of, 

 387-96 ; vindictiveness, 387-9 ; 

 sympathy, 389-90; rogue, 393, 

 394 ; dying under effects of emo- 

 tion, 395, 396 ; general intelligence 

 of, 396-410; enduring surgical 

 operations, 399-400 ; vigilance, 

 401; formation of abstract ideas, 

 401, 402; intelligence of tame de- 

 coys, 402-6; of tame workers, 

 306-8; thatching their backs, 

 308, 309 ; removing leeches, and 

 fanning away flies, 309, 310; con- 

 cealing theft, 410 



Ellendorf, Dr. F., on leaf-cutting 

 ants, 95, 96 ; on ants making a 

 bridge, 137 



Elliot, on collective instinct of 

 wolves, 433 



Emery, J., on powers of communi- 

 cation in bees, 157 



Emulation, of birds, 277 ; of dogs,442 



Encyclopgedia Britannica, on bees 

 following floating hives, 149 ; 

 battles of queen-bees, 163, 164 ; 

 parasitic instincts in birds, 306 



Endurance, of pain by wild dogs, 

 441 ; of surgical operations by 

 eagle, 313, 314 ; by elephants, 

 399, 400 ; by monkey, 482 



FLB 



Engelmann, on Daphniapulex seek- 

 ing yellow light, 23 



Epeira aurelia, Mr. F. Pollock on 

 perfection of web built by young, 

 217 



Erb, G. S., on intelligence of deer, 

 338, 339 



Esox lucius, 246 



Espinas, on co-operation of a^ts, 

 130 



FABRE, on instincts of sphex- 

 wasp, 180, 181 



Faister, Mdlle. de, her tame weasel, 

 346 



Falcon, variations in nest-building, 

 299 



Faraday, J., on intelligence of skate, 

 251 



Fascination, alleged, by snakes, 263, 

 264 



FajTer, Sir J., on fascination by 

 and charming of snakes, 264 



Fear, in horses, 329 ; in ruminants, 

 334 ; in rabbits, 355 ; in rats, 360 

 excited in dogs by portraits, 

 455-7; in monkey by snakes, 

 477, and by imitation monkey, 

 495 



Ferret, 347 



Fire -flies, stuck on nests by baya- 

 birds, 294 



Fish, 241-53; comparison of brain 

 with that of invertebrata, 241 ; 

 emotions, 242-7 ; nidification, 

 courtship, and care of yo'ong, 

 242-6 ; pugnacity, and social 

 feelings, 242; anger, 246, 247; 

 play, jealousy, curiosity, 247 ; 

 angler, 247, 248 ; jaculator, 248 ; 

 travelling overland, 248 ; climbing 

 trees, 248, 249 ; migrations, 249, 

 250 ; general intelligence, 250-53 



Fisher, J. F., on hen removing eggs 

 with her neck, 288 



Fleeson, Captain B., on honey-mak- 

 ing ants, 111-14 



Fleming, W. J., on intelligence of 

 horse, 330 



Fleury, Cardinal, on intelligence of 

 ants in making bridges, 135 



