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Index. 



Cow - bird, Screaming, dancing 



antics, 273. 

 Coypii, 11. 



Craspedocephalus alternates, 160. 

 Cratomorphus, 169. 

 Crested Screamer, 20; habits of, 



221-234. 

 Ctenomys magellanica, 13. 

 Cunningham, Dr., on habits of 



Oxyurus, 248. 

 Curtis, Dr., on the Mosquito, 139. 

 Cynara cardunculus, 302. 



Daines Barbington, on birds' 

 songs, 257. 



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 gauchos, 351; the huanacos' 

 dying places, 316,317; humble- 

 bees destroyed by mice, 62 ; 

 habits of Oxyurus, 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. villosus, 17; a mouse-catcher, 

 60; a snake-killer, 60; hunted 

 by trained dogs, 309. 



Death-feigning instincts, 200-204. 



Dendrocolaptidae, habits of, 235- 

 260. 



Dendrornis, 243, 259. 



Didelphys orassicaudata, 18. 



D. azaras, 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, 195. 



D'Orbigney, on oven-birds' singing, 

 272. 



Drymornis, 240. 



Dragon- flies, instinctively feared 

 by gnats, 135 ; travel before a 

 south-west wind, 130-134. 



Edentates, 16. 

 Blanus leucurus, 95. 



Epe'ira, 175; hunted by wasps, 

 182 .- protective resemblances in, 

 183. 



Feab, in birds, 83-100 ; paralyzing 



effects of, 201. 

 Felis concolor. See Puma. 

 F. geoffroyi, 14. 

 F. onca. See Jaguar. 

 Fire, confusing effect of, at night, 



173-177. 

 Fire-flies, 168-173. 

 Firewood gatherer. See Anum- 



bius. 

 Fitzroy, Admiral, on. the huanaco, 



316 ; on the puma, 50. 

 Fleas, 151. 



Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 

 Fox. See Canis azarae. 

 Freeman, Professor, on the humane 



instinct, 347. 

 Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 

 Fnrnariusruf us, 242, 256; destroyed 



by owls, 63; language, 256, 260; 



how it protects itself from para- 

 sites, 145. 



G-alictis baebaea, 15; 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, 296, 298 



Gibson, Mr. Ernest, anecdote of 

 carancho and skunk, 119. 



Golden plover, American, migration 

 of, 21, 22. 



Gossamer spider, 184; migrations 

 of, 185-188. 



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

 207, 209, 213. 



Grass-cat, 14. 



Grasshoppers, curious habit of, 

 373 ; mimicry and warning 

 colours in, 124-129. 



Guzman, Rui Diaz de, his story of 

 Maidonada and the puma, 56. 



Gynerium argentevtm, 6. 



Hawks, 93. 

 Henicornis, 242. 



