INDEX, 
^EsCIINA B01SIAE.IENSIS, 130. 
Agiiara, 15. 
Agiiaia-guazu, 15. 
Animal weapons, 69-82. 
Anumbius acnticaudatus, 147, 253. 
Argyroneta, 195, 
Armadillo, Hairy, See Dasypus 
villosus. 
Aspisoma, 169. 
Ass defends itself against the puma, 
38. 
Atticora cyanolenca, 296, 298. 
Andnbon and Bachman, on the 
puma, 37. 
Automalns, 250. 
Azara, Felix de, on the habits of 
Anumbius, 253; of the oscillating 
finch, 263 ; of the puma, 31, 35, 
40 ; of the tree-creej)ers, 251 ; of 
the vizcacha, 304, 310. 
Anecdote of caged rats, 343, 
344. 
Azara’s dog. See Canis azarse. 
Bacon, on the dog maintained by 
a man, 341. 
Bain, Dr. A., on anger, 166. 
Baird, Dr. Spencer, on the peregrine 
falcon, 97 ; on the skunk, 119. 
Bartlett, Mr., on the Talegallus in 
the Zoological Gardens, 87. 
Bates, Mr., on wandering bands of 
birds, 251. 
Belt, on the bush-tick, 142 ; on the 
fire-fly’s light, 171 ; on man’s 
hairless condition, 143 ; on hum- 
ming-birds in Nicaragua, 218 ; 
on wandering bands of birds, 255. 
Bete-rouge, 144. 
Bicho-colorado, 144. 
Bigg-Wither, Mr., on dancing-birds 
in Brazil, 262 ; on fire-flies in 
Brazil, 17^ 
Bird-fly. See Ornithomyia. 
Birds, on the pampas, 19 ; aerial 
dances of, 265; fear in, 83-100; 
affected by fire-light, 176 ; how 
they escape the bush- ticks, 144 ; 
wandering bands of, 252. 
Black-faced ibis, 265. 
Boddam-Whetham, Mr. J. W., 
anecdote of puma, 52. 
Bombas thoracicus, 154. 
B. violaceus, 154, 157. 
Burrowing owl, 24, 66 ; a snake- 
killer, 73. 
Burton, Captain, on bush-ticks in 
Brazil, 141. 
Bush-ticks, 141-145. 
Buteo eythronotus, 175. 
Byron, Commodore, anecdote of a 
great beast in Tierra del Fuego, 
50. 
Caciialote. See Homorus. 
Canis azarae, 15 ; death-feigning 
instincts of, 202 ; preying habits, 
300. 
C. jubatus, 15. 
Carancho, 23, 119. 
Carduus mariana, 303. 
Cat, anecdotes of the, 60, 61, 73. 
Cattle, strange instincts of ,329-347 . 
Cavia australis, 13, 64. 
Ceratoj)hrys ornata, 78, 79. 
Cervus campestris, 16 ; instincts 
of doe and fawn, 110 ; powerful 
smell of buck, 159. 
C. paludosus, aquatic habits, 144. 
Chaja. See Crested Screamer. 
Chauna chavarria. See Crested 
Screamer. 
Chimango, 23, 91, 93, 94. 
ChinchillidEe, language of, 265. 
Chlamydophorus truncata, 16. 
Ciconia maguari, 62. 
Cinclodes, 242, 248. 
Circus cinereus, 94. 
C.'macroifferus, 94. 
Cnipolegus hudsoni, antics of, 271. 
Cock-of-the-rock, dancing antics, 
261. 
Cometes, 219. 
Coryphistera, 242. 
Courlan, 19. 
Cow-bird, Common, habits of the 
young, 90; language and antic j, 
273. 
