INDEX 



Gophers, an interesting incident, 

 237, 238. 



Grackle. See Crow blackbird. 



Grebe, and loon, 235, 236. 



Gregariousness, its effect on indi- 

 viduality, 118, 119. 



Groos, Karl, his work on The Play 

 of Animals, 87, 100. 



Grouse, flight of, 4. 



Grouse, ruffed (Bonasa umbel- 

 Itis), 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 cana- 

 ce), 260. 



Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, his 



Chapters on Animals, 124; 237. 

 Hawk, broad - winged (Buteo 



platypterus), 74. 

 Hawk, fish, or American osprey 



(Pandion haliaetiis caroli- 



nensis), 213. 

 Hawk, marsh (Circus hudsonius), 



a young, 99. 

 Hawk, red-shouldered {Buteo li- 



neatus), 222, 223. 

 Hawk, red-tailed {Buteo 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. 



Home Life on an Ostrich Farm, 

 135, 136. 



Homing instinct, the, a remark- 

 able trait, 53; an instance of its 

 workings, 53-57; 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, 

 232. 



Indigo-hird {Cyanospiza cyanea\ 



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, 50. 



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 {Perisoreus canaden- 

 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 experi- 

 ments with young birds, 69, 

 70. 



Kingbird {Tyr annus tyr annus), 

 177. 



Kipling, Rudyard, his Jungle 

 Book, 14; his The White Seal^ 

 14. 



Kittens, 75. 



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