INDEX 



Beaver Cont. 



prehistoric remains, 157, 158 



re-introduction for amenity, 242, 298 

 Bedford, Duke of, 288 

 Bedfordshire, 288 

 Bee, Hive, domestication of, 107 



fertilization of flowers by, 5 1 5 



indirect effects of Isle of Wight disease 



of 5 J 5 



introduction to Britain, 515 



to New Zealand, 257 

 Beetles, Asparagus, European, 459 



Bean, 446 



Biscuit, 410, 444 



Black. See Cockroach 



change of food habits of, 409, 410 



Cigarette, 445 



Click, increase of, 392 



"Clock," 239, 416 



Cockchafer, 235, 392 



Colorado, 387-388, 397, 409, 411 



"Death Watch," 4 o 4 



Dung, 239, 396 



Furniture, 404 



Grain, 441 



Heather, 206 



houses selected as domicile by, 404 



increase due to dung, 396 



introduction, into greenhouses, 463 

 with flour, 443 

 with wheat, 440 



Ladybird, 235, 260, 261 



Lentil, 446 



Longicorn, transportation in timber, 

 470 



Pea, 392, 445, 474 



pine, 329, 472 



Scarabee, 474 



Store, 442 



Timber, or Capricorn, 470 



Timberman, 472 



Tobacco, 410 



Turnip Flea, 392 



Weevils, q.v. 

 Belfast, 436 

 Belgium, 469, 474 

 Belhelvie Moss, 51 

 Bellenden, John, 83, 90, 173, 251 

 "Ben, Jo.", 173 

 Ben Lui, 314 

 Ben More, 126 

 Ben Venue, 128 

 Bennachie, Capercaillie in woods of, 272 



Forest of, 3 1 1 

 Bennie, James, n, 305 

 Berlese, A., 262 

 Berner, Dame Juliana, 277 

 Berriedale, 295 

 Berry, William, 395 

 Berwick, North, 432 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, 226, 471, 472 

 Berwickshire, ague in, 509, 510 



Beaver in, 157 



Berwickshire Cont. 

 Boar, Wild, in, 90 

 Bustard in, 274 

 Chough in, 178 

 Deer, Red, in, 333 

 Roe, in, 330, 331 

 Elk in, 346, 347 



Hare, Mountain or Variable, in, 282 

 Polecat in, 164 

 Rabbit in, 252 

 Squirrel in, 352 

 Tench in, 279 

 Urus in, 51 

 Wild Cat in, 125 

 Beveridge, F. S., 412 

 Bignold, Sir Arthur, 288 

 Bilharzia hamatobia, 422 

 Birchwood, 446 

 "Bird-butter," 148 

 Birds, carrion, protection as scavengers, 



223-226, 395 



change of food habits of, 411 

 change of habits induced by houses, 401 

 destruction, as pest on fruit-crops, 411 

 as vermin, 176-178 

 by bird-catchers, 189, 193-194 

 by lighthouses and other lights, 377- 



379 



by Little Owl, 256 



for food, 139 



for plumage, no. 189 



of eggs, 148 

 dispersal of, 399 



effect of destruction of forest upon, 329 

 ^game. destruction for sport, 186-188 

 influence of towns upon, 405-408 

 insect-eating, increase due to cultivation, 



393' 394, 48? 



introduction for amenity, 283 

 marshland, decrease due to reclamation 



of swamps, 370, 371, 373, 374, 488 

 moorland and plains, decrea>>e due to 



cultivation, 366 ^ 

 mortality due to telegraph wires, 379 

 of prey, destruction of, 109, in, 127-137, 



217,489,493, 498 

 Paris Convention for Protection of, 277 



?rehistoric remains of, 8, 1 7 

 rotection Acts relating to, 227, 228, 

 229, 236 



protection by popular favour, 233 

 for aesthetic reasons, 229 

 for food, 216 

 for sport, 183, 197, 202, 203, 204-207, 



486 



for utility in agriculture, 227 

 Royal Society for the Protection of, 236 

 seed-eating, increase of, 389, 485, 496 

 Birse, Forest of, 80, 81,311 



parish of. 121 f.-n. 



Biscuits, pests infesting, 441, 443, 444 

 Bishop, A. Henderson, 19, 30, 316 

 Bison, in Germany, 349 



