INDEX 



Gophers, an interesting incident, 

 237, 238. 



Grackle. -See Crow blackbird. 



Grebe, and loon, 235, 236. 



Gregariousness, its eflect on indi- 

 viduality, 118, 119. 



Groos, Karl, his work on T?ie Play 

 of Animals, 87, 100. 



Grouse, flight of, 4. 



Grouse, rufled {Bcmasa ' umbel- 

 lus), 71, 94; drumming of, 177, 

 257; the " Hermit's " incredible 

 story of a, 179, 180; feeble vocal 

 powers of, 257. 



Grouse, spruce, or Canada grouse 

 {Canachites canadensis canor 

 ce), 260. 



Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, his 

 Chapters on Animals, 124; 237. 



Hawk, broad - winged (B'uteo 

 platypterus), 74. 



Hawk, fish, or American osprey 

 (Pandion haliaUits carolv- 

 nensis), 213. 



Hawk, marsh {Circus hudsonitts), 

 a young, 99. 



Hawk, red-shouldered (Buteo li- 

 neatus), 222, 223. 



Hawk, red-tailed (Suteo borealis 

 and subsp.), 102. 



Hawks, alleged mimicry among, 

 248, 249. 



"Hermit," his false natural his- 

 tory, 93-95; his stories of cow- 

 birds and a grouse, 178, 179. 



Hibernation, 48, 49. 



Hickory nut, 251, 252. 



Borne Life on an Ostrich Farm, 

 135, 136. 



Homing instinct, the, a remark- 

 able trait, 53; an instance of its 

 workings, 53-67; 99; nature of, 

 235. 



Honeysuckle, a shoot of, 24, 25. 



Horses, ignorant fear in, 123; self- 

 destruction of, 146; 162; a mare 

 and her blind companion,226,227. 

 • Hyla, peeping, hibernation of, 48; 

 a second period of peeping, 231, 



Indigo-bird ( Cyanospiza eyanea), 

 flight song of, 44. 



Individuality, effects of solitude 

 and gregariousness upon, 118, 

 119. 



Industries of Animals, 137. 



Inferences, right, 231-238. 



Insects stilled by the cold, 49, BO. 



Instinct, 1 ; demoralized, 73, 74 ; 

 one instinct overcoming an- 

 other, 74; makes up nine tenths 

 of the lives of our wild neigh- 

 bors, 74; a kind of natural rea- 

 son, 76; in connection with par- 

 asitism, 79, 80; importance of, 

 81; origin and development of, 

 81, 82; not always inerrant, 155; 

 machine-like action of, 158, 159; 

 non-progressive, 212; nature of, 

 254-257; variability of, 257-261. 



Jackals, 142. 



Jackdaw, the Bishop of Carlisle's 



story of a, 148. 

 Jay, blue (Cyanocitta cristata), 



Mr. Keyser's young bird, 69, 



70 ; hiding instinct of, 161 ; 251, 



263. 

 Jay, Canada (Perisorei/s canadeji' 



sis), 204, 260. 

 Jefferies, Richard, 131, 197, 203. 

 Jesse, Edward, his story of some 



swallows, 148. 



Katydids, 49. 

 Kea, 260, 261. 

 Kearton, Richard, his story of an 



osprey, 137; on the wren's nest, 



138, 139; on a colony of terns, 



139; his experiments with 



wooden eggs, 227, 228; on instinct 



in animals, 257. 

 Keyser, Leander S., his ejcpeii- 



ments with young birds, 69, 



70. 

 Kingbird {Tyrannus tyrannus), 



177. 

 Kipling, Kudyard, his Jungle 



Book, 14; his The White Seal, 



14. 

 Kittens, 75. 



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