INDEX. 
593 
Humming-bird, i. 455. its diminutive size — Indians’ opinion re- 
specting it — its flight and manner of collecting honey, 456. 
subject to violent passions — nest described, 457. tame ones, an 
account of, 458. Indians of Mexico and Peru made pictures of 
the feathers, 459. 
Hysena, an instance of two tame ones, i. 1 95. hyaena in Exeter 
’Change described — is naturally savage, unsociable, and solitary, 
196. is insatiably voracious — abounds in Gondab, 197. a visit 
from a hyaena described by Bruce — a great coward in the da - 
time, 198. ridiculous notions respecting the hyaena — spotted 
hycena inhabits the Cape of Good Hope — howls dreadfully in 
the night-time, 199. his predaceous disposition exemplified, 
200. attends the shambles at the Cape in the night-time for the 
sake of the offal — anecdote by Dr Sparrman, 201. 
Hydrophane, its singular property, iii. 409. called oculus mundi, 
or lapis mutabilis, 410. account of — where found, 410, 411. 
I. 
Ibex, mode of hunting the, i. 36, 
Ichneumon, account of a tame one, i. 256. found wild in Asia and 
Africa — his prey, what, 257. description — venerated by the 
Egyptians — great enemy to the crocodile, 258. impatient of 
cold — his natural habits, 259. 
Indigo, principally cultivated for its colouring property, iii. 187- 
described, 188. manner of extracting the colouring matter, I89. 
African indigo reckoned the best— mode of making indigo in 
Senegal, 190. in Asia — in China, 191. in Agra, 192, culti- 
vation of the indigo plant in America, 193. at the Cape of 
Good Hope, 194, 195. 
Insects worthy our attention, ii. 235. their brilliant colours — ac- 
count of their different parts, 236. proceed from a germ which 
contains the insect in miniature, 238. contrivances of the fe- 
males to secure their eggs from injury, 239. remarkable in- 
stinctive faculty exemplified, 240, 24 1 . larva described — chry- 
salis, what — spin a little sepulchre, 243. and how, 244. manner 
of disengaging itself from its prison— industry of the young cater- 
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