INDEX. 483 



B. 



Babelmandel, {freight of, how diftinguifhed, p. 80, 81. 



Badenach, Dr. James, his defcription of a bird from 

 Malacca, p. r. 



Barker, Mr. Thomas, his meteorological regiiter, p. 42, 

 43, &c. 



Barrington, Hon. Dairies, investigation of the fpecifk 

 characters of the rabbit, and the hare, p. 4. On the 

 periodica! appearing or difappearing of certain birds, 

 p. 265. 



Beaufort^ duke, uncle to Henry V. his body found laft 

 year, p. 465. 



Belon, his account of quails found at fea, p. 270. No 

 argument for their migration, p. 2j\. 



Birds , their periodical migration acrofs confiderable ex- 

 tents of fea, called in queflion, p. 5.66. Objections 

 againft this opinion, p. 267. At what height they can 

 rife, p. 268. Whether night is a proper time for their 

 flight, p. 269. Would want food, p. 292. Always 

 fly againft the wind, p. 293. Their difappearing 

 during winter, accounted for, p.300, 301. And during 

 fummer, p. 306. 



Bladders not fuflicient to fecure different kinds of factitious 

 air, p. 



Body, well preferved 2 or 300 years after death, defcribed, 

 p. 466, &c. 



Bohemian chatterer, a bird, why only feen now and then ? 



P- 3 J 5- 

 Borlafe, Dr. William, his meteorological obfervations for 



*nu p- s 6 5- r ,. 



Bradley, the late Dr. James, a paper of his, con- 

 taining directions for ufing the common micrometer, 

 p. 46. 



Buff on, M. attempts to prove the hare and rabbit to be 

 really diftinct fpecies, from their not breeding together, 



Q.qq2 p. 9- 



