392 
Index. 
Cow - bird, Screaming, dancing 
antics, 273. 
Coypu, 11. 
Oraspedoce^Dhalus alternatns, 160. 
( h’atomorphns, 169. 
Crested Screamer, 20; habits of, 
221-234. 
Gtenomys magellanica, 13. 
Cunningbam, Dr., on habits of 
Oxynrns, 248. 
Curtis, Dr., on the Mosquito, 139. 
Cynara cardunculns, 302. 
Daines Bakeington, on birds’ 
songs, 257. 
D’Albertis, on fire-flies in hTew 
Guinea, 173. 
Dancing (Music and) in Nature, 
261-288. 
Darwin, on birds learning their 
songs, 257 ; fear in birds, 88, 89 ; 
the gauchos, 351; the huanacos’ 
dying places, 316, 317 ; humble- 
bees destroyed by mice, 62 ; 
habits of Oxjnrus, 248; the 
pampas, 4, 5 ; persecution of 
sick and wounded animals by 
their companions, 339, 343 ; 
sexual selection, 208, 263, 279; 
habits of the vizcacha, 289, 304. 
Dasypns minntus, 16. 
D. tricinctus, 16. 
D. villosns, 17 ; a mouse-catcher, 
60 ; a snake-killer, 60 ; hunted 
by trained dogs, 309. 
Death-feigning instincts, 200-204. 
Dendrocolaptidee, habits of, 235- 
260. 
Dendrornis, 243, 259. 
Didelphys anritur, 18. 
D. azar®, 18 ; death-feigning in- 
stincts, 202 ; burdened with its 
young, 102. 
Dog, dislike of the skunk in, 120; 
domineering temper of, 336. 
Dolichotis patagonica, 11. 
Dolomedes, 195. 
D’Orbigney, on oven-birds’ singing, 
272. 
Drymornis, 240. 
Dragon-flies, instinctively feared 
by gnats, 135; travel before a 
south-west wind, 130-134. 
Edentates, 16. 
Elanus leucurus, 95,. 
Epei'ra, 175; hunted by wasps, 
182 : protective resemblances in, 
183. 
Feae, in birds, 83-100; paralyzing 
effects of, 201. 
Felis concolor. Bqq Puma. 
F. geoffroyi, 14. 
F. onca. BeQ Jaguar. 
Fire, confusing effect of, at night, 
173-177. 
Fire-flies, 168-173. 
Firewood gatherer. Bqq Anum- 
bius. 
Fitzroy, Admiral, on the huanaco, 
316 ; on the puma, 50. 
Fleas, 151. 
Fowl, cackling instinct of, 112-115. 
Fox. jS'ec Can is azarse. 
Freeman, Professor, on the humane 
instinct, 347. 
Frog, an undescribed species, 75-78. 
Furnarius ruf u s, 242, 256 ; destroyed 
by owls, 63 ; language, 256, 260 ; 
how it protects itself from para- 
sites, 145. 
Galictis baeeaea, 15; helpless* 
ness of young, 104. 
Gallus bankiva, its cackling in- 
stinct, 115. 
Garrod, Dr., on the Crested 
Screamer, 223. 
Gauchos, their treatment of horses, 
354. 
Gay, Claudio, on the puma, 42. 
Geobates, 242. 
Geositta cunieularia, 242, 296, 298 
Gibson, Mr. Ernest, anecdote oi 
carancho and skunk, 119. 
Golden plover, American, migration 
of, 21, 22. _ 
Gossamer spider, 184; migrations 
of, 185-188. 
Gould, Dr., on humming-birds, 205, 
207, 209, 213. 
Grass-cat, 14. 
Grasshoppers, curious habit of, 
373 ; mimicry and warning 
colours in, 124-129. 
Guzman, Bui Diaz de, his story ol 
Maldonada and the puma, 56. 
Gynerium argenteum, 6. 
Hawks, 93. 
Henicornis, 242. 
