.INDEX, 
BEE 
B®e, mason, 178, 179 ; tapestry, 179 ; 
carpenter, 179; rose, 179; card- 
ing, 179, 180 
Bees, sense of sight, 143, 144 ; of 
smell and hearing, 144 ; of direc- 
tion, 144-51; remembering exact 
locality of absent hive, 148-49; 
following floating hives, 149 ; 
memory, 151-55; sympathy, 155, 
156 ; distances over which they 
forage, 150 ; powers of communi- 
cation, 156-60; economy of hive, 
160-8 ; food and rearing, 160- 
163 ; swarming and battles of 
queens, 163, 164; drone-killing, 
164-68 ; plunder and wars, 168- 
170; architecture, 170-8; way- 
finding, 181, 182 ; instinct of 
neuters, 181 ; recognising com- • 
panions, 183, 184; barricading 
doors against moths, 184, 185; 
strengthening combs in danger of 
falling, 185, J 86 ; mode of dealing 
with surfaces of glass, 186; with 
strange hives, 186, 187 ; evacua- 
ting fallen hive, 187 ; ceasing to 
store honey in Barbacloes and 
California, 187, 188; recognising 
persons, 188, 189 ; biting holes in 
corollas, 189; ventilating hives, 
191, 192 ; covering slugs, &c., with 
propolis, 190, 191 ; effects of re- 
moving antennae, 197 
Beetles, see Coleoptera 
Belshaw, on cat knocking knockers, 
422 
Belt, on ants, duration of me- 
mory in, 39, 40 ; sympathy, 48 ; 
division of labour, 99 ; ecitons, 
114-19 and 138 ; tunnelling 
under rails, 140 ; on sand- wasp 
taking precise bearings to remem- 
ber locality, 150. 151 ; struggle 
between wasps and ants for secre- 
tion of frog-hoppers, 194, 195 ; 
intelligence of spiders in protect- 
ing themselves from ecitons, 219, 
220 ; beetles undermining stick 
supporting a dead toad, 228 ; in- 
telligence of monkeys, 480 
Benedictson, on navigating habits of 
Iceland mice, 364, 365 
501 
BLA 
Bennet, on birds dreaming, 312 
Bennett, on conjugal fidelity of 
duck, 270, 271 
Berkeley, Gh, on beetle storing its 
food, 228, 229 
Bettziech-Beta, on termites, 199 
Bidie, on suicide of scorpion, 222. 
223 ; on reasoning power of cat, 
415 
Bingley, on intelligence of ants, 
133 ; carpenter-bees, 179 ; account 
of alleged training of bees, 189 ; 
co-operation of beetles, 226, 227 ; 
ant-lion, 230, 235; domestication 
of toad, 255 ; fascination by snakes, 
264; sympathy in birds, 272; 
eccentricity of nest building in- 
stinct, 295 ; education of birds, 
312; pigs pointing game, 339* 
340 ; intelligence of otter, 346 ; 
memory of elephant. 387; vindic- 
tiveness of elephant, 387, 389; 
elephants enduring surgical opera- 
tions, 399, 400 
Bird, Miss, on combined action of 
crows in obtaining food from dogs, 
320 
Birds, 266-325 ; memory of , 266-70; 
emotions, 270-82; special habits 
of procuring food, 283-6 ; of in- 
cubation and taking care of off- 
spring, 287-31 0 ; general intelli- 
gence, 310-25 ; dreaming and ima- 
gination, 311-12 ; learning to avoid 
telegraph wires, 313; recognising 
painting of birds, 311 ; submitting 
to surgical operation, 313-14; 
honey-guide, 315-16 ; appreciation 
of mechanical appliances, 315-16 ; 
concerted action, 318-322 
Birgus l-atro , 233 
Bison, 334-5 
Blackbirds, breaking shells against 
stones, 283 ; removing eggs, 289 ; 
mobbing cat, 291 
Blackburn, Professor H., on dis- 
tances over which bees forage, 
150 
Blackhouse, R. O., on dog being 
alarmed at a statue, 453 
Blackman, on cats learning to beg 
for food, 414-15 
