INDEX. 



589 



Hare and Hounds, game of, in Nubia, 

 377. 



Hare of Western Siberia, 150. 



Hassauie, a Soudanese tribe, 204 ; their 

 appearance and singular customs, 

 204 ; their huts, 205 ; life of a Has- 

 sanie matron, 206. 



Hazel-grouse, hunting of the, 142. 



Heat in the desert, 170, 574. 



Hippopotamus, the, 225, 230. 



Hochtiere, an order including man and 

 the monkey, 317. 



Hornbill, the, 219, 576. 



Horse, among the Kirghiz, 458, 484; 

 horse-racing, 485. 



Hulman and Bunder, monkeys wor- 

 shipped, 238. 



Humboldt, Alexander von, xx. 



Hungary, bird-fauna of, 540. 



Hyaena-dog of African steppes, 195. 



Instinct versus Love, 259. 

 Isegrim, name for the wolf, 152, 154, 

 564. 



Jerboa of the Asiatic steppes, 108, 570. 

 Journey, in the Desert, 318 ; in Siberia, 

 390. 



Kaisak, Kasak, or Cossack. See Kir- 

 ghiz. 



Kaliim, price of a Kirghiz bride, 499. 



Kazan, town of, 393. 



Kirghiz, the, 397 ; a sample of their 

 poetry, 398. See Nomad Herdsmen, 

 and Family and Social Life. 



Kittiwake, brooding-places of the, 60. 



Korti, the Nubians defeated at, 370. 



Koumiss, 469, 498. 



Kulan, ancestor of the domestic horse, 

 115, 404, 571; migrations of the, 245. 



Lark of the Asiatic steppes, 105, 115. 



Lemming of the tundra, 74 ; migrations 

 of, 254, 568, 580. 



Lizards in Africa, 185. 



Locusts, 230. 



Lofodens and their bird-life, 48. 



Love and Courtship among Birds, 259; 

 intelligence and emotional life in 

 animals, 260 ; all birds seek to pair, 



261 ; various methods of bird- wooing, 

 262 ; their songs are love-songs, 263 ; 

 their love-flights, 265; love-dances, 

 266; coyness of the female birds, 271, 

 581; combats among the rival males, 

 272 ; devotion of birds to their chosen 

 mates, 275 ; occasional unfaithful- 

 ness, 277; polygamous birds, 279, 581 ; 

 bird widows and widowers, 280, 581. 



Love versus Instinct, 259. 



Love-dances of birds, 266. 



Love-flights of kites, harriers, &c., 265. 



Love-song of birds, 263. 



Lynx in Siberia, 155. 



Mammals, migrations of, 234. 



Man-like apes, 308. 



Maral stag, hunting of the, 144 ; value 

 of his antlers for preparing a Chinese 

 quack specific, 144, 573. 



Marmoset, lowest of the monkey order, 

 291. 



Marriage ceremonies among the Kir- 

 ghiz, 498. 



Marsh-harrier, a bird of prey, 102. 



Melik el Nimmr, the "panther king", 

 371. 



Metallic starling, the, 214, 215. 



Migrations of Mammals, 234; causes 

 of periodic migrations, 234 ; wander- 

 ings of the brown rat, souslik, and 

 mice, 235 ; expeditions to obtain bet- 

 ter food, 238 ; fundamental cause of 

 all true migration, 239; scarcity of 

 water a cause of migrations, 242 ; 

 migration of sea animals, 248 ; mad 

 flight of zebras and other animals in 

 South Africa, 256. 



Mines of Siberia, convicts in, 534. 



Mohammed Aali subjugates the Nu- 

 bians, 370. 



Monkeys. See Apes and Monkeys. 



Monkeys, long-tailed, 222, 581. 



Mosquito, a terrible pest in the tundra, 

 81, 568. 



Mud-fish of Africa, 183, 575. 



Naturalist-travellers, list of works by, 



xxix. 

 Nests of birds, 217; of the bee-eaters, 



217 ; of the golden weaver-birds, 218; 



