INDEX 



I 

 I 





A 



^PYORNIS, 137 

 Albatross, in 

 Alligator, 227, 231 

 Alternation of generations, 



74 



Amblystoma, 225 



Amoeba, 287 



Anaconda, 232 



Ant, 17, 42, 165 ; Amazon, 54 ; 

 callows, 47 ; cleanliness of, 

 48 ; cocoons, 47 ; decapi- 

 tating fly, 300 ; driver, 43 ; 

 eggs of, 45 ; gardens, 52 ; 

 harvesting, 43, 51 ; honey- 

 pot, 48 ; leaf-cutting, 52, 

 106 ; legionary, 43 ; lion, 

 61 ; lion pits, 61 ; nest, 43 ; 

 nuptial flight of, 44, 47 ; 

 nurses, 46 ; queen, 44 ; 

 slave-making, 53 ; societies, 

 42 ; soldiers, 52 ; white, 55 ; 

 workers, 45 



Aphis, 77, 222 



Axolotl, 225 



B 



BADGER, 193, 209 



Bag-worm, 83 



Bald-eagle, 306 



"Balling "bees, 22 



Barbet, 146 



Barnacle, 253 



Bat, 194 ; colour of, 198 ; 



Hodgson's, 198 ; plantain, 



198 ; senses of, 195 



Beaver, 201 ; dams, 202 ; huts, 

 202, 203 ; lodges, 203 



Bedeguar, 74 



Bee, 17, 18, 90 ; bread, 21, 34 ; 

 blunt-tongued, 36 ; carpen- 

 ter, 33 ; carpenter, small, 

 35 ; doorkeeper, 25 ; drones, 

 18 ; eggs, 21 ; hive, 18 ; 

 ventilation of, 24 ; honey, 

 24 ; jelly, 20, 22 ; leaf-cut- 

 ting, 31 ; nests of, 32; louse, 

 26 ; mason, 36 ; moth, 26 ; 

 nurses, 27 ; parasites, 33 ; 

 potter, 36; queen, 18 ; 

 sharp-tongued,36; solitary, 

 31 ; swarm, 19 ; trumpeters, 

 28 ; wax, 19 ; wool-carder, 

 35 ; workers, 18 



Beef-eater, 174 



Beetle, ambrosia, 67 ; blister, 



107, 244; cigarette, 69; 



leather, 299 ; museum, 299; 



purple ground, 298 ; silver 



^ water, 93 ; tiger, 79 



Bird of paradise, 155, 161 ; 

 king, 155 



Bitterling, 248, 304 



Bittern, 148 



Blackbird, 129, 137, 141 



Black-headed gull, 305 



Bower-bird, 154, 160 



Brambling, 181 



Brazilian tree-frog, 245 



Bright colours, 107 



Brock, 209 



Brown pelican, 305 



Brush-tailed rat, 215 



307 



