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INDEX. 
CON 
Cones, Captain Elliot, on intelli- 
gence of wolverine, 348-50 
Conilurus constructor , 326 
Conklin, W. A., on elephants thatch- 
ing their backs, 409 
Consciousness, as evidence of mind, 
2 ; gradual dawn of, 13 
Conte, Tohn Le, on reasoning power 
of a dog, 460-1 
Cook, Capt., on tiee ants, 111 ; in- 
telligence of tree-ants, 133 
Cook, George, on dog dragging mat 
about to lie upon, 466 
Co-operation, of ants, 48-49, 51- 59, 
64 ct seq. (in making slaves and 
waging war), 85-96 ; (in sundry 
occupations), 96-100; (in harvest- 
ing), 108-10, 111-14; (of ap- 
parently different species), 114— 
122; (of military ants) 127-30, 
132-4, 136-40; of bees, 159-74; 
(in general work, wars, and archi- 
tecture), 177, 178, 184-6, 190-2 ; 
of termites, 198-203 ; of beetles, 
226-8 ; of birds, 318-22 ; of horses 
and asses, 333 ; of bison and buf- 
falo, 335 ; of pigs, 339 ; of rats, 
361, 362 ; of mice, 364 ; of beavers, 
367-83; of elephants, 401; of 
foxes, 433 ; of wolves, 433 and 436 ; 
of jackals, 432-5 ; of baboons, 
483 
Corse, on memory of elephant, 386, 
387 ; emotions of elephant, 393 
Corvus cornice , punishing offenders, 
323, 324 
Couch, on maternal instinct of hen, 
272 ; mode in which guillemots 
catch fish, 285 ; mode of escape 
practised by swan, 290 ; birds 
removing dung from neighbour- 
hood of their nests, 290 ; black- 
birds mobbing cat, 291 ; niditi ca- 
tion of swan, 296-8 ; crows punish- 
ing offenders, 323-4 ; intelligence 
of hare, 359 ; cat unlocking door, 
424; fox avoiding trap, 428; 
catching crabs with tail, 432 ; 
mode by which a dog killed crabs, 
459 
Cowper, on intelligence of hare, 
359, 360 
DAE, 
Cox, C., play-houses of bower- birds 
presented by him to Sydney Mu- 
seum, 280 
Crabs, 231-4 
Craven, on intelligence of a sow, 
340 
Crehore, on foxes avoiding traps, 
428, 429 ; on dog recognising por- 
trait, 453 
Cripps, his elephant dying under 
emotional disturbance, 396 
Criterion of mind, 4-8 
Crocodiles, 263 
Crow, Capt. Hugh, on sympathy 
shown by monkeys for sick com- 
panion, 473, 474 
Crows, memory of, 266; breaking 
shells by dropping them on the 
stones, 283 ; punishing offenders, 
323-5 
Cruelty, of cat, 413 
Crustacea, 231-34 
Cuckoo, parasitic instincts of, 301-7; 
eggs of coloured like those of the 
bird in whose nest they are laid, 
307-9 ; American, 305, 306 
Curiosity, of fish, 247 ; of birds, 
278, 279 ; of ruminants and 
swine, 335 ; of monkeys. 477 
Curlew, nidification of, 292 
Cuvier, his orang drawing chair to 
stand upon to reach a latch, 481 ; 
on birds dreaming, 312 
ACE, tamed, 246 
Dampier, on frigate-pelicans 
plundering boobies, 284 ; on mon- 
keys hammering oyster shells with 
stones, 481 
DapJmia yulex, seeking light, es- 
pecially yellow ray, 23 
Darwin, Charles on apparent intel- 
ligence of worms, 24 ; of oyster, 
25 ; of snail, 27 ; Mr. Hague's letter 
to, on powers of communication in 
ants 54-7 ; observations on ants 
keeping aphides, 60, 61 ; on ants 
making slaves, 64, 66, 67 ; com- 
muni ations of Lin cecum to, on 
harvesting ants, 103, 107 ; on pro- 
portional size of ants’ brain. 140 ; 
communication of Muller on 
