INDEX 



" Picts' houses." See Eird houses ; 



Picus major. See Woodpecker, Great 

 Spotted 



Pieris brassicae and rapae. -See Butterflies, 

 Cabbage 



Piette, M., 30 



Pig. See also Boar, Wild 

 as street scavenger, 224 

 domestication of, 89, 9295, 491 

 extermination of Dodo of Mauritius by, 



498 



in New Zealand, 245 

 numbers added to fauna, 486 

 parasites introduced by, 422 ' 

 prehistoric remains of, 32, 33, 34 

 primitive, in Highlands and Islands, 92, 



93 

 Pigeon, 34, 95-100, 267. See also Rock 



Dove 



Crowned, destruction for plumage, 189 

 houses, evolution and legislation, 97- 



100 



introduction of exotic, 283 

 Mayer's, 245 



protection for food, 98, 217 

 Wood, 389, 390 

 as pest, 231 

 in London, 406 

 Pike, transportation of, 279 



in California, 258 

 Pine forests, 308 



Pines, weevils transported with, 472, 474 

 Pinnaspis pandant, 46 1 

 Pipit, Tree, 399 

 Pissodes notatus, 472 



piniphilus, 472 

 Pitfour House, 296 



Ponds, 279 

 Pitlochry, 133, 360 



Placocephalus (Bipalinni) kewensis, 464 

 Plague, Bubonic, 420, 423 

 relation of Fleas to, 420, 507 



of Rats to, 423, 507 

 Plaice, destruction of, 150 

 Plains, animals of, 12, 13 



destruction owing to cultivation, 365, 366 

 Planarians, Land, introduction to Scottish 



greenhouses, 464 



Plant-bugs, 459, 474. See also Aphis 

 Plants, introduction of animals with, 457- 



466, 474, 475 



introduction with animals of, 418 

 Pliny the Younger, 45 

 Plover. See also Lapwing 

 abundance of, 266, 356 

 destruction of eggs for food, 1^.8 

 Golden, mortality caused by telegraph 



wires, 379 

 price, 140 



protection for food, 217 

 Pltimatella emarginata, 414 

 Plntella maculipennis. See Moth, Diamond- 

 backed 



Plymouth Sound, 433 

 Poaching Acts, 205 



Podiceps cristatus. See Grebe, Great Crested 

 Pogonochaerusfasciculaius, 472 

 Polecat, in Scotland, 107, 329 

 destruction as vermin, 127, 176, 177 

 destruction for skin, 156, 161-166, 221 

 effect of destruction of forest upon, 350 

 Pollution of rivers, 382-3*6 

 Polyommatits agrestis var. artaxerxes. See 



Butterflies, Artaxerxes 

 Polyzoa, in water-pipes, 414 

 Pony. See under Horse 

 Poplar, 414 

 Population, increase of, 25, 394, 481, 



485 



Port Elphinstone, 294 

 Porthetria dispar, 462 

 Possil Marsh, 298 

 Potato, birds as pests on, 41 r, 412 

 Colorado Beetle as pest upon, 387 

 pests transported with, 475 

 plants as food of Death's Head Hawk 



Moth caterpillars, 408 

 Sweet, pests transported with, 474 

 Poultry, domestication of, 34, 101-106 



parasites introduced with, 423 

 Pralincola rubicola. See Stonechat 

 Predmost, 109 

 Pressmennan Lake, 279 

 Prestonpans, 154 

 Pribilof Islands, no, 223, 257 

 Prospaltella berlesei, 262 

 Protection of animals, 197-240, 481, 485, 



487 



as scavengers, 216 

 .by law, 198, 478 

 by popular favour, 198, 233-237 

 by superstition, 198, 237 

 for aesthetic reasons, 198, 229-232 

 for food, 216 



for fur and skins, 216, 221 

 for special services to agriculture, 216 



227 



for sport, 197, 198, 199-215 

 for utility, 216-228 

 Prothero, R., 391 

 Psychoda hmneralis, 416 

 Ptarmigan, as food, 267, 356 

 prehistoric remains, 1 7 

 protection for hawking, 203, 205 

 Pteronus ribesii, 392 

 Plilinus peclicornis, 404 

 Ptimis tectus, 442, 445 f.-n. 

 Puffin, rats in burrows of, 432 

 PufHn Island, 432 

 Pulex irritans. See Fleas, Human 

 Pulvinaria floccifera, 460 

 Punjab, 328 

 Punt-gunning, 188 

 Pupa, 39 

 Putney, Surrey, 446 

 Pyralis farinalis, 443 



