INDEX. 
513 
MOR 
481 ; using levers, 481 and 492 ; 
using hammers, 481 and 485 ; 
divining principle of screw, 490- 
91 ; keeping door open with 
blanket, 481-2 ; allowing tooth 
to be drawn, 482; punishing 
young, 482 -3 ; destroying snake’s 
fangs, 483 ; concerted action, 483; 
love of mischief, 485 et seq . ; 
throwing things in rage, 485 et 
seq. ; pushing slab to which tied, 
484-7 ; capricious attachments and 
dislikes, 484 et seq. ; trying to 
unlock a box, 492 ; playing with 
fire, 493-4 ; expression of emo- 
tions, 494-5 ; dread of imitation 
monkey, 495 
Morgan, L. A., on spider convey- 
ing insect to larder, 220 
Morgan, L. H., on the beaver, 367- 
83 
Moschkau, Dr., on intelligence 
shown by a spider which he 
habitually fed, 218-19 
Moseley, Lewin, performing opera- 
tion on a monkey, 482 
Moseley, Prof., on intelligence of 
crabs, 231-2 
Mossman, Rev. J. W., on wasps 
coming out of small aperture 
backwards, 192-3 
Mule, alleged counting by, 332 ; 
intelligence of, 333-4 
Muller, Adolph, on instinct of 
cuckoo, 306-7 
Muller, F., on powers of communi- 
cation in bees, 157; on termites, 
198 and 201 
Murray, S., intelligence of his dog, 
450 
Music, fondness of spiders for, 205- 
7 ; of parrots and pigeon, 282 
Mygale spider eating humming- 
birds, 208 
Myrionphyllum spicatnm , 243 
Myrmelcon formiccbvium , 234-5 
N ADA ULT, Madame, the associa- 
tion of ideas shown by her 
parrot, 269 
Napier, Commander, on pigeon 
ORT 
making a horse shake oats from 
nose-bag, 317 
Napier, Lady, recollection in parrot, 
269, 270; emulation in parrot, 
276, 277 
Nest, see Notification 
Newall, R. S., on wasp dividing 
caterpillar to facilitate carriage, 
195, 196 
Newbury, on absence of beaver 
dams in California, 370, 371 
Newton, Professor A., on instincts 
of cuckoo, 306-9 
Nichols, W. W., on intelligence of 
pigeons, 317 
Nicols, A., on reasoning power of a 
retriever, 464, 465 
Nicropliorus , 228 
Notification, of crustacean, 232, 
233 ; of fish, 242-5 ; of birds, 291 
-301; petrels and puffins, 291, 292 ; 
auks, curlew, goatsucker, ostrich, 
gulls, sandpipers, plovers, king- 
fisher, Chinese swallow, house- 
martin, 292 ; tomtit, woodpecker, 
starling, weaver, 293 ; baya, tale • 
gallus, 294 ; grosbeak, 295, 296 ; 
swan, 296-8 ; Wallace’s theories 
concerning, 298, 299 ; variability 
of 299-301 ; of harvesting mice, 
365 
Nipher, Professor, on intelligence 
of a mule, 333, 334 
Noetua Ervingii , 238 
Noctnra verbasci, 236 
North, the Rev. W., on intelligence of 
mice, 361, 362 
Nottebohm, Herr, on ants stocking 
trees with aphides, 63 
O BSTETRIC-FISH, 246 ; toad, 254 
Octopus , intelligence of, 29, 30 
(Ecypoda ippeus , 231 
Oldham, A., on jealousy in dog, 
442, 443 
Orang-outang, removing dead com- 
panions, 472 ; sense of humour in, 
473 ; drawing chair to stand upon 
to reach high places, 481 
Orthotomus , 293 
