INDEX 
Acherontia atropas, 217-19 
Adders, the quest of, 15; dreaming 
of, 19; reasons for not killing, 
20-28; swallowing their young, 
21; measuring, 25; capturing, 
28-9; beautiful colours in, 29-32 
Adder-stone, 16 
Agouti, beauty of the, 288 
Aldebaran, an intelligent visitor 
from, 37-40 
Aldermaston, snake preserve at, 
17 
Ants, a danger to fledgelings, 5-6; 
9-10; 13-14 
Aquilegia. See Columbine 
Ardea cinerea and A, cocoit. 
Heron 
Arnold, Matthew, serpent poetry 
of, 195-7; lines on fritillary, 
331 
See 
Badger, encounter with a, 51-2 
Barrett, Charles, on ants destroy- 
ing fledgelings in Australia, 14 
Bastard balm, beauty and rarity 
of the, 327 
Bats, Pliny on, 33; genealogy of, 
33-6; how Nature made, 37-40; 
ferocity of, 41-2; migration, 
42-4; sense organs, 44-6; Cuvier 
and Spallanzani on extra senses 
in, 45-8; J. G. Millais on facul- 
ties of, 49 
Beddard, Dr. F. E., an authority 
on earthworms, 347 
Bell’s British Quadrupeds, cam- 
paign against moles related in, 
116 
Bicho moro. See Blister-beetle 
Birds, stories about, 74-83 
Bird’s-foot trefoil, on a prehistoric 
earthwork, 323-5 
Blister-beetle, ravages of the, 309; 
appearance and smell of, 309; a 
rapacious fly enemy of, 311 
Book of the Serpent, a, 186 
Breydon Water, herons fishing in, 
102 
Britton, J., a story of a fox told 
by, 56 
Browne, Sir Thomas, on fear of 
serpents, 178 
Browning, grandfather 
poet, 330 
Byron, potato with vinegar de- 
youred by, 308 
of the 
Caius, Dr., the British dogs of, 
250 
Cantharides, 309 
Cat, triendship of, with rat, 234-7 
Chaucer, 318 
Chequered daffodil. See Fritillary 
Chillingham, the white bull of, his 
low place in the scheme of 
things, 34 
Chinchilla, beauty and grace of, 
287 
Clodothrix odorifera, 349 
Cobbe, Miss Frances Power, an 
admirer of Schopenhauer, 292 
Columbine, the blue, in England, 
828-31 
Cormorant struggling with eel, 98; 
as a pet, 233 
Crotalus durissus, New England 
rattlesnake, 205 
Cuvier, on senses of bats, 45-8 
Daisies, on old Roman Road, 322 
Danish farmer, imaginary con- 
versation with a Wiltshire pig- 
keeper, 298-9 
Darwin, on the origin of the 
domestic dog, 275; on earth- 
worms, 348-9 
Daw, history of a tame, 77-8 
Death by accident in wild life, 96 
Death’s-head moth, seen in num- 
bers, 217-19 
Demeter, the Corn Mother, 312 
Dog, the little red, character and 
anecdotes of, 238-46 
Dogs, friendly with lamb, 128; 
effect of muzzling order on, 247+ 
264; artificial instincts in, 272 
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