358 THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST 
Dolichotis, a Patagonian rodent, 
287 : 
Earthworms, effect of weed-killer 
on, 343; habits of, in relation 
to lawns, 345-6; London, 350- 
851; heath and sandy soil, 351; 
chalk soil, 351-2; cause of wide 
distribution of, 352-6 
Elsie Venner Infelix, 209 
Epicauta adspersa. See Blister- 
beetle 
Fayrer, Sir Joseph, a great ophio- 
logist, 197 
Fer-de-lance, an impression of the, 
188 
Flea, origin of the, 36 
Flowers, beauty and charm of 
wild, 316; adorning waste lands 
and ruins, 322; on an old Roman 
road, 323; on a_ prehistoric 
earthwork, 323-5; rare and Ic- 
cal, 326 
Fox, beauty of the, 50-54; senti- 
ment concerning the, 55; a 
South American music-loving, 
58; adventures of a_ threc- 
legged, 59-62 
Fox terrier, character of the, 253 
Fritillary, appearance of, seen 
growing in profusion, 331-4; 
beauty and singularity of the, 
334-6 
Geranium, G. pyrenaicum, 327; 
the blue, 327 
Ghost-moth, dance of the, 221-2 
Glanville, Ernest, on the African 
Icanti, 158-9 
Goat’s-beard, various folk-names 
of, 317-18; singular habit of, 
318-22 
Gould, earliest writer on habits of 
ants, 251 
Grass of Parnassus, beauty of the, 
327 
Grey, Viscount, squirrels tamed 
by, 233 
Guanaco, a pet, in Patagonia and 
its habits, 125 
Guinea (or Ginny) flower. 
Fritillary 
Guira cuckoo, a mouse-killer, 97 
See 
Hake, Dr. Gordon, serpent poetry 
of, 197-200 
Hawk-moths, 217; death’s-head, 
217-19; crimson underwing, 219- 
221; humming-bird, 222-4 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, character 
of his genius, 203-4; in search 
of a weed, 338 
Heron, bathing, 93; strange ad- 
venture with a, 94-6; flight of 
the, 103; a ghostly bird, 104; as 
a table-bird, 106-12 
Heronry, a great, 47 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, story of 
a serpent girl, 201-9 
Hopley, Miss C. C., on the ser- 
pent’s tongue, 139; her pet slow- 
worm, 233 
Horse, habit of a tamed wild, 119- 
122; twitching muscle in the, 
229 
House-martin, accidentally killed, 
98 
Humming-bird, flight in the, 47; 
hawk-moth, 222-4 
Huxley, on monographs, 190 
Teanti, African serpent myth, 159 
James, Henry, on living in a pine 
wood, 3 
John-go-to-bed-at-noon, 
habit of, 316 
singular 
Keats, serpent poetry of, 200 
Kidd, Benjamin, humble-bees 
tamed by, 232, 280 
Lacepede, on the serpent’s uses, 
136 
Lagidium, an Andean rodent, 287 
Lang, Andrew, on drawing-room 
dogs, 292-4 
Lawns, feeling about, 337; Sir 
Walter Raleigh quoted, 337-8; 
in relation to earthworms, 340- 
3x4 
Leibnitz, on a talking dog, 279 
Lemurs, beauty and docility of the, 
286-7 
Lindsay, Dr. Lauder, Mental Evo- 
lution quoted, 279; on the dog’s 
spiritual nature, 288 
Long, Sir Walter, dog-muzzling 
order of, 252 
