INDEX OF NATURAL OBJECTS, ETC. 



421 





QUAIL, instinctive love of change of, 38 



Queen bee, 252 



Quinquinas plants, medical virtues of, 



i4 



BABBIT, the, and her cradle, 365 



Kaindrops, influence of, 137 



Raptores, the, and their eggs, no 



Raptores, the, and their enemies. 138 



Rattlesnake secretes poison posthu- 

 mously, 22 



Rattlesnake, tail of the, 386 



Rattlesnake, the 118 



Raven, the, 298 



Red ants, 164 



Red-deer, the, 184, 284 



Red-headed woodpecker, 317 



Reduvius personatus, 317 



Remora, the, 143 



Remora, the, and the turtles, 381 



Reptile race, use of the, 372 



Reptiles, 175, 274 



Retina, the, 157 



Rice-water used as ink, 182 



Rifle ants, the, 368 



Ringed snake, the, 396 



River, effect of a little, 204 



River Plata, 166 



Rivers, law respecting the courses of, 

 62 



Rocks, the, and their story, 370, 399 



Rooks, sympathy of, 342 



Rooks, the, 150 



Roots, struggles of, 197 



Roots, varying shapes of, 42, 47 



Rose, composition of the, 56 



Rose of Jericho, the, 305 



Rotifer, the, 112, 197 



Ruffs, the, 293 



Runn of Cutch, 98 



SALT, a field of snow-white, 162 



Samoiedes, the, worship the bear, 6 



Saurians, the, 337, 399, 401 



Sauroid animals, footprints of, 124 



Scolytus, ruin of trees by the, 101 



Scorpion, the, 321 



Sea-crabs, quarrelsomeness of, 292 



Sea, currents of the, 284 



Sea, destructive power of the, 388 



Sea-eagles punished by seals, 8 



Sea-mouse, 164 



Sea, springs of fresh water rising in 



the, 29 



Sea-water unpresentable, 369 

 Sea-waters of diiferent temperature 



will not commingle, 371 

 Seals and the tempest, 90 

 Seals, intelligence of, 8 

 Seals,thedomesticarraugementsof,2i9 



Secretary bird, the, and the snake, 386 



Secretary bird, the, and the snakes, 108 



Seeds, extraordinary vitality of, 350 



Seeds, methods by which, are dissemi- 

 nated, 363 



Seeds, ubiquity of, 194 



Seeds, universality of, 247 



Selaginella convoluta, the, 270 



Self-luminous stars, 237 



Sensitive plant, the, 315, 342 



Seolytus, ruin of trees by the, 101 



Sepia, the, 236 



Serpents safe when gorged, 135 



Serum, 218 



Shark, the, 129, 148, 296 



Sheep, i, 158 



Shell-collectors, a hint to, 49 



Ship-worm, ravages of the, 377 



Ship- worm, the, 332 



Silk-worm moth, the, 312 



Silurian seas, the, 401 



Silurus, the, 183 



Silver, 134 



Silver-thaw, the, 95 



Sirocco, the, 377 



Skuas, hatred of, for eagles, 6 



Skull, artificial alteration of shape of, 

 127 



Skunk, the, 238, 325 



Skye sandstone, 43 



Slave Lake, vegetation around the, 234 



Sloths, the, 163 



Snake bites, 332 



Snake, manner of changing skin of, 113 



Snakes, lurking places of, 139, 207 



Snakes, venomous and non-venomous, 

 good friends in confinement, 7 



Snow, 152 



Snow cannot quench thirst, 260 



Snow, the uses of, 309 



Snowdrop, the, 239 



Solar rays, 134 



Solids, philosophy of floating, 44 



Sound, propagation of, 363 



Sparrow, the, 393 



Sparrows robbing martin s nest, 349 



Sparrows, the, 160 



Spice-trees, 202 



Spider, tricks of the, 310 



Spiders and fine weather, 175 



Spitzbergen coast, summer on the, 200 



Squirrel an unconscious oak-planter, 2 



Stag, the, and his pursuers, 336 



Star-fish, 168, 257 



Star-fishes break themselves when 

 alarmed, 308 



Stars, 147, 279, 390 ^ 



Stars, ceaseless motion of, 91 



Stars, heat of the, 300 



Stars, the, as guides, 391 



