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Index. 



Cow - bird, Screaming, dancing 



antics, 273. 

 Coypii, 11. 



Craspedocephalua alternatus, 160. 

 < !ratomorphus, 169. 

 Crested Screamer, 20; habits of, 



221-234. 

 Ctenomys magelTanica, 13. 

 Cunningham, Dr., on habits of 



Oxyuras, 248. 

 Curtis, Dr., on the Mosquito, 139. 

 Cynara carduuculus, 302. 



Daines Baeeington, on birds' 

 songs, 2.57. 



D'Albertis, on fire-flies in New 

 Guinea, 173. 



Dancing (Music and) in Nature, 

 261-288. 



Darwin, on birds learning their 

 songs, 257 ; fear in birds, 88, 89 ; 

 the gauohos, 351; the huanacos' 

 dying places, 316, 317 ; humble- 

 bees destroyed by mice, 62 ; 

 habits of Oxjurus, 248; the 

 pampas, 4, 5 ; persecution of 

 sick and wounded animals by 

 their companions, 339, 343 ; 

 sexual selection, 208, 263, 279; 

 habits of the vizcacha, 289, 304. 



Dasypus minutus, 16. 



D. tricinctus, 16. 



D. villbsus, 17; a mouse-catcher, 

 60 ; a, snake-killer, 60 ; hunted 

 by trained dogs, 309. 



Death-feigning instincts, 200-204. 



DendrocolaptidEB, habits of, 235- 

 260. 



Dendrornis, 243, 259. 



Didelphys auritur, 18. 



D. azaree, 18 ; death-feigning in- 

 stincts, 202 ; burdened with its 

 young, 102. 



Dog, dislike of the skunk in, 120 ; 

 domineering temper of, 336. 



Dolichotis patagonica, 11. 



Dolomedes, 196. 



D'Orbigney, on oven-birds' singing, 

 272. 



Drymornis, 240. 



Dragon-flies, instinctively feared 

 by gnats, 135; travel before a 

 south-west wind, 130-134. 



Edehtates, 16. 

 Elanus leuciirus, 95,, 



Bpeira, 175; hunted by wasps, 

 182 : protective resemblances in, 

 183. 



Fear, in birds, 83-100; paralyzing 



effects of, 201. 

 Felis concolor. jSee Puma, 

 r. geoffroyi, 14. 

 F. onca. 8e& Jaguar. 

 Fire, confusing effect of, at night, 



173-177. 

 Fire-flies, 168-173. 

 Firewood gatherer. Bee Anum- 



bius. 

 Fitzroy, Admiral, on the huanaco, 



316 ; on the puma, 50. 

 Fleas, 151. 



Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 

 Fox. See Canis azarEe. 

 Freeman, Professor, on the humane 



instinct, 347. 

 Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 

 Farnariusrufu 8,242,256; destroyed 



by owls, 63 ; language, 256, 260 ; 



how it protects itself from para- 

 sites, 145. 



G-AiicTis BAEBAHA, 15 j helpless- 

 ness of young, 104. 



Gallus bankiva, its cackling in- 

 stinct, 115. 



Garrod, Dr., on the Crested 

 Screamer, 223. 



Gauchos, their treatment of horses, 

 354. 



Gay, Claudio, on the puma, 42. 



Geobates, 242. 



Geositta cunicularia, 242, 29G, 298 



Gibson, Mr. Ernest, anecdote oi 

 oarancho and skunk, 119. 



Golden plover, American, migration 

 of, 21, 22. 



Gossamer spider, 184; migrations 

 of, 18-5-188. 



Gould, Dr., on humming-birds, 205, 

 207, 209, 213. 



Grass-cat, 14. 



Grasshoppers, ciirions habit of, 

 373 ; mimicry and warning 

 colours in, 124-129. 



Guzman, Eui Diaz de, his story ol 

 Maldonada and the puma, 56. 



Gynerium argenteum, 6. 



Hawks, 93. 

 Henicornis, 242. 



