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Index. 



241 ; zygodactyle birds, 241 ; Buc- 

 conidse, 241 ; blue-clieeked barbet, 



241 j blue-throated, barbet, 242 ; cry 

 of the barbet, 242 ; Bassunt Bari, 



242 ; " old woman of spring," 242 ; 

 nest of barbet, 242 ; African barbets, 



243 ; trachyphorie barbet, 243 ; ha- 

 bits of trachyform, 243 ; American 

 barbets, 244 ; native country of dif- 

 ferent birds, 245 ; Pselopogon, 243 ; 

 Megatorhynchus, 243 ; Megatcema 

 Asiatica, 243 ; Barbatula, 243 ; gym- 

 nobucco, 243 ; Lamodon, 243 ; Capi- 

 tonidse, 243 ; Pogonorynchi, 243 ; 

 Barbatulse, 243 ; Trachyphonus mar- 

 garitatus, 244 ; humming-birds, 245 ; 

 toucans, motmots, puff birds, Curas- 

 sows tinamous, 245 ; bee-eaters, horn- 

 bills, rollers, sugar birds, honey guides, 

 orioles, 245 ; falcons, owls, swifts, 

 swallows, and thrushes, 245 ; parrots 

 and trogons, 245 ; structure and man- 

 ner of growth of scales of fish, 246 ; 

 reptiles scales, 246 ; gadoid fish, 247 ; 

 megrim, or scale fish, 247 ; herring 

 and pilchard, 248 ; cuticle of the 

 fish, 248 ; sea bream, Pagellas, Cen- 

 trodontus, 249 ; perch scales, 249 ; 

 sole scales, 249 ; Sciosnae, 249 ; Perca 

 fiuviatilis, 249 ; Solea vulgaris, 249 ; 

 comber fish, 250 ; Serranus cabriha, 



'. 250 ; Mullus surmuletus, 239 ; Trigla 

 piper, 250 ; Bhombus hirtus, 250 ; 

 shad, 250; Clupeida3, 250; Can- 

 tharus griseus, 250 ; Caranx tra- 

 churus, 250 ; Scomber esiox, 250 ; 

 scad, 250 ; Labridfe, 251 ; Atherine, 

 251 ; Atherina presbuta, 251 ; scales 

 of lateral line, 251 ; Trigla cuculus, 

 252 ; Ammodytes Tobianus, 252 ; 

 Labrus balamus, 252 ; Mullus sur- 

 muletus, 252; Pagellus centrodontus, 

 252 ; Clupea pilchardus, 253 ; Esox 

 lucius, 253 ; Belona vulgaris, 253 ; 

 Salmo trutta, 253 ; Brama Raii, 

 253 ; gadus fish, 253 ; structure of 

 annelids, with a criticism on Quatre- 

 fages, 266 ; regions of the body and 

 appendages, 267 ; feet of annelids, 

 269 ; hesions, 269 ; teguments and 

 muscular apparatus, 269 ; Arthro- 

 podes, 270 ; muscular system, 271 ; 

 digestive organs, 271 ; perivisceral 

 circulatory system of annelids, 272 ; 

 Aphroditians, 272 ; Grlycerians, 272 ; 

 Terebella, 272 ; Aphrodita aculeatu, 

 272 ; rotifers, 281 ; ovovivaparous 

 generation, 282 ; eggs of rotifers, 2S3 ; 

 eyes of rotifers, 283 ; calcar or spur 

 of rotifer, 283; Systolides, 284; 

 fixed rotifers, 284 ; swimming roti- 

 fers, crawling rotifers, 284 ; Floscu- 



larians, 2S4 ; Melicertians, 284 ; 

 Brachions, 284 ; Philodines, 284 ; 

 Polyarthra, 284; Triarthra, 284; 

 Conochilus, 284 ; Lacinularia, 284 ; 

 GEcistes, 284 ; Limnias, 285 ; Ste- 

 phanoceros, 286 ; tube-dwelling roti- 

 fers, 286 ; Dujardin's free-swimmers, 

 287 ; Asplanchna, 287 ; pitcher 

 rotifer, 288; Salpina, 288; Ptero- 

 dina, 288 ; cuirassiers, 288 ; trochal 

 disks, 288 ; ciliary organs, 289 ; 

 active wheel cilia, 290 ; gizzards, 291; 

 mastax, 291 ; ciliary movement, 290 ; 

 brachion mastax, 292 ; foscules, 293 ; 

 stomach and intestines, 293 ; diges- 

 tive apparatus, 294 ; nervous system, 

 295 ; Metopidia acuminata, 295 ; 

 localities in which rotifers are found, 

 295 ; Annuloida, 296 ; true-jointed 

 limbs of rotifers, 296 ; sulphuric 

 acid formed by a mollusk, 319; in- 

 sects eggs, their structure, beauty, 

 and variety, 321 ; Lepidopterous, 

 321 ; care of insects in depositing 

 eggs, 321 ; cockroach's eggs, 322 ; 

 ants' eggs, 322 ; queen bees' eggs, 

 322 ; silkworms' eggs, 322 ; goat 

 moth's eggs, 322 ; coleopterous in- 

 sects' eggs, 322 ; burying beetles' 

 eggs, 323 ; Scarabseidte, 323 ; earth 

 borer, 323 ; formation of eggs, 323 ; 

 chemical constituents of eggs, 324 ; 

 egg membrane or shell, 325 ; Coccus 

 Persicas, 326 ; pbryganea eggs, 326 ; 

 coccus eggs, 327 ; ova of crustaceans, 

 327 ; mottle umber moth, 327 ; mag- 

 pie moth, 327 ; thorn moth eggs, 

 327 ; straw-belle moth eggs, 328 ; 

 dingy shears moth eggs, 328 ; puss 

 moth eggs, 328 ; swallow prominent 

 eggs, 328 ; brimstone moth eggs, 

 328 ; lappet moth, 328 ; buff tiger 

 moth, 328 ; brown-tail moth, 328 ; 

 emerald volute moth, 329 ; glory of 

 Kent moth, 329 ; silkworm moth, 



329 ; silver line moth, 329 ; meadow 

 brown butterfly, 329 ; white butterfly, 

 330 ; brown hair-streak butterfly, 



330 ; fur-bearing foxes, 354 ; Can- 

 nidrc family, characteristics of, 355 ; 

 red fox, 355 ; grey fox, 355 ; wolves 

 and foxes, 355 ; foxes' tails, 355 ; 

 South American foxes, 356 ; silver 

 fox, 356 ; prices of fox skins, 357 : 

 cross-fox fur, 358 ; red fox, 358 ; 

 trapping foxes, 359 ; red trappers, 

 359 ; kitt fox, 359 ; Koeky Mountain 

 fox, 360; skull of kitt fox, 361: 

 corsac fox, 361 ; thievish propen- 

 sities of kitt fox, 362 ; Arctic fox, 

 364 ; white fox, 361 ; blue Arctic 

 fox, 364 ; respiratory apparatus of 



