INDEX OF NATURAL OBJECTS, ETC. 



417 



Black ants, 163 



Black panther, the, 302 



Black rain, 88 



Black rhinoceroses, 265 



Blind animals, 255 



Blind insects and fishes, 28 



Blind worm, peculiarity of tail of the, 



264 

 Blind worm, popular error respecting, 



302 



Blood, the, 39, 203, 218 

 Blood, the, and the sun, 327 

 Boa-constrictor, the, 83, in 

 Boom slange, the, 348 

 Boring-wood beetle, 169 

 Brazilian vegetation, 251 

 Brooke's deep-sea sounding apparatus, 



119, 243 



Brown meadow butterfly, the, 179 

 Bud, importance of the, 405 

 Budding, 186 

 Buffalo and cow, 93 

 Bullfinch, the, 352 

 Bunt, 78 



Burrowing owl, the, 239 

 Butterfly, zig-zags of the, 353 



CAMELS, 304 



Capuchin Saki, 122 



Caracara, the, of South America, 249 



Caracaras, the, 72 



Carbonate of lime, a test for, 41 



Caribitos, the, 394 



Cassida aurichalcea, the, 346 



Cat and dog as friends, 291 



Caterpillars extraordinary eaters, 60 



Caterpillar's life, 66 



Caterpillars, the leaf rolling, 75 



Cats, 64 



Cats and dogs incapable of living at 



great altitudes, 326 

 Cave of Kentucky, 28, 256 

 Caverns of Illyria, 255 

 Cedar of Lebanon, 264 

 Cephalopoda, 38 

 Choetodan rostratus, 215 

 Chalk cliffs, 288 

 Chameleon, the, 188 

 Chemical tests, 361 

 Cheops and the Sphinx, 172 

 Chimachima, 403 

 Chimpanzees regarded as a nation by 



negroes, 121 

 Chlorine gas, affinity for hydrogen, 216 

 Christatella mucedo, 33 

 Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, 201 

 Cicada plebeia, the, 330 

 Cleft-grafting, 170 

 Cloud, influence of a, on bees, 340 

 Clove trees, 23 



Coal-tar, colours from, 24 



Cockroach, the, 263 



Colibris, 47 



Condor of the Andes, the, 307 



Contrary colours, 263 



Coral islands, 348 



Coral reef, formation of the, 52, 240 



Coralline mistakable for an animal, 16 



Cordilleras, the, 326 



Cormorant, 23 



Corrallina officinalis, 155 



Cow, the, easily astonished, 18 



Crested anolis, 171 



Cricket, pugnacity of the, 287 



Cricket, the, and the light, 364 



Crickets, the African, 236 



Crimson topaz (bird), 164 



Crocodile and its friend, 129 



Crocodile and the vulture of Brazil, 



248 



Crocodile, the, in, 112, 148 

 Crocodile's egg and bird's egg, 254 

 Crows, 107 



Crows, judicial meetings of the, 359 

 Crustaceans, the, 300 

 Crystals of gypsum, 162 

 Cuckoo, audacious ingratitude of the, 



21 



Cyance capillata, 320, 322 

 Cyclones, law, of, 188 

 Cydippe pileus, 25 



DAYAL, the, 290 



Dead Sea, the, 73 



Dead substances usually rejected by 



carnivorous animals, 294 

 Death's-head moth, the, 182 

 Desert, horrors of the, 82 

 Deserts as suction pumps, 380 

 Desrnodium gyrseus, the, 345 

 Desolate Sea, the, 79 

 Diamond, charcoal, and black-lead, 



unity of, 371 

 Diamond, the, 276 

 Diatomaceae, 119 

 Dionaea muscipula, the, 391 

 Dodo, the, 160 

 Dog, the, astonished at external 



change, 18 

 Dogsbane, the, 315 

 Dormant seeds, 113 

 Dorr beetle, 30, 222 

 Dragon-flies, the 283 

 Dripping well of Knaresborough, the, 



132 



Driver ant, 7 



Drought, after the, in Jamaica, 273, 

 Dunes, the, 274, 286 

 Durian fruit, the, 315 



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