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INDEX TO BOOKS NOTICED AND REVIEWED.

THE GENERAL SUBJECT.

Analyst, the, noticed, 479. 656.

British Association's Third Report, announced,
480; Fourth Report, announced, 656.
Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Natural-
istes de Moscou, noticed, 187.

Bushnan's Introduction to the Study of Nature,
illustrative of the Attributes of the Almighty,
noticed, 476.

Finch's Travels in the United States of America
and in Canada, noticed, 95.
Fraser's Account of Persia, noticed, 185.
Hastings's Illustrations of the Natural History
of Worcestershire, noticed, 186
Higgins's Alphabet of Electricity, announced.
544. 656.

Jesse's Gleanings in Natural History, Second
Scries, noticed, 284.
L'Institut, noticed, 288.

Macgillivray's Memoirs of the Lives of cele.
brated Naturalists, ann., 288; not., 605.
Naturalist's, the, Poetical Companion, not., 89.
Parent's, the, Cabinet of Amusement and In-
struction, not., 95.

Partington's British Cyclopædia, not., 382. 605.
Quebec Literary and Historical Society's Trans-
actions, noticed, 544.

Teacher's, a, First Lessons on Natural Religion,
announced, 96.

GENERAL ZOOLOGY.

Bonaparte's Iconografia della Fauna Italica,
announced, 384.

Bushnan's History of a Case in which Animals
were found in Blood drawn from the Veins
of a Boy, noticed, 94.

Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, Henderson's Trans-
lation of, noticed, 607.
Edwards on the Influence of Physical Agents
on Life, noticed, 381.

Grant's Comparative Anatomy, announced, 656.
Gray's Zoological Text Book, announced, 384.
Innes's New Edition of Goldsmith's Natural
History, noticed, 479.

Jardine's Felinæ, announced, 196; Dogs, 656;
Deer and Antelopes, 656.

King's Introduction to the Study of the Science
of Organisation, noticed, 543.
Lord's Popular Physiology, announced, 655.
Pritchard's Natural History of Animalcules,
noticed, 285.

Swainson's Zoological Illustrations, Second Se-
ries, announced, 656.
Thompson's Zoological Researches, Memoir 5.,

announced, 656.

Walker's Treatise on the Nervous System,
Anatomical and Physiological, noticed, 603.
Wells's Lecture on Animal Instinct, not. 185.
Wood's Illustrated Descriptions of the Mam.
malia, announced, 192.

Zoological Journal, Part xx., announced, 656.

ORNITHOLOGY.

Brown's and Dick's Natural History of the
Parrots, noticed, 91.

Gould's Bird's of Europe, announced, 656.
Hewitson's British Oology, 338. note.
Jardine's Natural History of Gallinaceous Birds,
noticed, 381.

Jardine's Natural History of Humming-Birds,
vol. ii., noticed, 90.

Mudie on the Feathered Tribes of the British
Islands, noticed, 284.

Swainson's Ornithological Drawings, not. 185.

ICHTHYOLOGY.

Wilson's and Duncan's Ichthyology, ann. 96.
Yarrell's History of British Fishes, ann. 479.
CONCHOLOGY.

Lea's Observations on the Genus Unio, &c.
announced, 655.

Swainson's Exotic Conchology, noticed, 86.
ENTOMOLOGY.

Bagster's Management of Bees, announced, 655.
Bagster's Spiritual Honey from Natural Hives,
announced, 655.

Doncaster Agricultural Association's Report
on the Turnip Fly, noticed, 543.
Entomological Magazine, noticed, 91. 480. 608.
Entomological Society's Transactions, 608, 655.
Fischer's Notice sur le Phlocerus, noticed, 187.
Gray's Entomologist's Popular Guide to the
Study and Classification of British Insects,
announced, 384.

Newman's Grammar of Entomology, ann. 480.
Shuckard's Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial
Hymenoptera, announced, 480.

Westwood's Popular Introduction to the Mo-
dern Classification of Insects, announced, 288.
Wilson's and Duncan's Entomologia Edinensis.
Coleoptera, noticed, 188.

BOTANY.

Babington's Flora Bathonensis, noticed, 191.
Gaillon's Observations sur les Limites qui sé.
parent le Règne Végétal du Règne Animal,
noticed, 189.

Hooker's Journal of Botany, noticed, 286. 480.
Lees's Affinities of Plants with Man and Ani-
mals, noticed, 382.

Lindley's Ladies' Botany, noticed, 383.
Nees von Esenbeck's Genera Plantarum Flora
Germanicæ Iconibus et Descriptionibus il-
lustrata, noticed, 190.

Paxton's Magazine of Botany, announced, 192.
Rhind's Catechism of Botany, noticed, 191.
Royle's Illustrations of the Botany, and other
Branches of the Natural History, of the
Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of
Cashmere, noticed, 285. 480. 608.

Wight and Arnott's Prodromus of the Cha-
racters of the Plants of the Peninsula of India,
announced, 288. 480.

Wyatt's Dried Marine Plants of Devonshire,
noticed, 95.

GEOLOGY.

Ainsworth's Account of the Caves of Bally-
Allan's Manual of Mineralogy, ann. 544.
bunian, reviewed, 286.
Boase's Treatise on Primary Geology, ann. 384.
By landt's Résumé Préliminaire de l'Ouvrage
sur la Théorie des Volcans, reviewed, 85.
Geological Positions in direct Proof of an im.
portant Part of Scripture Chronology, an-
nounced, 96.

Hawkins's Memoir on the Ichthyosauri and
Plesiosauri, noticed, 384; reviewed, 476.
Lea's Contributions to Geology, noticed, 383.
Lyell's Principles of Geology, vol. iii, of, ann.
191. A new Edition of the whole Work,
announced, 544.

Nicol's Observations on the Structure of Recent
and Fossil Coniferæ, announced, 192.
Phillips's Geology of the North and West

Ridings of Yorkshire, announced, 181. 192.
Phillips's Guide to Geology, announced, 656.
Revolutions of the Globe, a work on, ann. GOS.

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658

GENERAL INDEX.

A

CARI are, in the West Indies, sometimes.
fatal to poultry, 633.

Achlýsia Audouin deemed identical with Lim-
nócharis Latr., 161.

Ega monophthalma Johnston, figures, and a
description of, 233.

Egèria, remarks on the characteristics and
synonymes of certain species of, 177.
Aglaia taú is of active habits, 532.
Algæ, a notice of M. Gaillon's views on the
physiological attributes of, 189; notice of
Mary Wyatt's work on the A'lga of Devon-
shire, with a mention of some species, 95.
Albatross, the wandering, dimensions of an in-
dividual of, 74.

Alcyònia, the compound, an incidental noti-
fication of their structural distinctness from
the polypes, 13, 14; illustrations of the struc-
ture of two species of, 15, 16.

Alyssum marítimum Lam. disseminated by
waves, 272.

Amphibious animals, zoological recollections
on, 404.

Animals notices of instances of extraordinary
increase, migrations and irruptions of animals,
birds, insects, and fishes, with a referring of
these to terrestrial and atmospherical convul-
sions, 193; thoughts on the question, Why
cannot animals speak the language of man?
481; instances of animals of different genera
communicating ideas to one another, 502; an
instance of animals of the same species doing
this, 503; instances of certain species of ani-
mals of which varieties with their external
covering of a colour anomalous to that of
the species are known, 589.

Annulate animals, essays in explanation of
the structure of, and of its relation to their
economy, 121. 235; an explanation of the
process of the circulation of the blood, and of
that of the respiration in, 235.
Andbium, see Ptínidæ.
Anòlis, see Lizards.

Ants, various facts on the habits of various
species of, 266-270; facts on the parasol ant
of Trinidad, 363; a note on a species of very
minute ant, 269. 603.

Apiocrinites, see Crinoidea.

Aplídium fallax Johnston and A. nutans John-
ston, a figure and a description of each, 15, 16.
Appetite, depraved, instances of, in mammi-
ferous animals, 185, 136. 503.

Ardèidæ, Mr. Jenyns's views on the systematic
affinities of the, 98.

A'rgulus foliaceus Jurine, fils, a note on, 600.
Artesian wells, a request for information on
the temperature of, 81.

Ascídía? gémina, a figure and a description of,
129; Ascidia? Holothuria? ánceps, a figure
and a description of, 130.

Aspérula arvensis L. not a British plant, 272.
Ass, zoological recollections on the, 318; a
notice of a superstition connected with the
ass, 566; instances of the ass nearly white,

590.

Audubon, Mr., and his work, the Biography of |
the Birds of America, Mr. Waterton's re-
marks on, 66-74; Rev. John Bachman's
defence of Mr. Audubon's account of the
rattlesnake's swallowing squirrels, 164; of
his opinion that the turkey buzzard traces
its food by sight and not by smelling, 165;
and of Mr. Audubon's claim of the author-
ship of the Biography of the Birds of America,

171; a notice by Mr. Bachman of some of
Mr. Audubon's recent contributions to or-
nithology, 174; Mr. Waterton's defence of
his own views on the claim of Mr. Audubon
to the authorship of the Biography of the
Birds of America, 278; Mr. Waterton's views
on Mr. Audubon's ornithology, 279; Mr.
Waterton's analysis of Mr. Audubon's state-
ments on the passenger pigeon, 281.

Aurora borealis, particulars and observations
on a very interesting instance of the, wit-
nessed at Hull, on the evening and night of
Oct. 12. 1833, 50.

Badger, zoological recollections on the, 405.
Ballybunian, information on the caves of, 286.
Bear, zoological recollections on the, 400.
Berberry, the, shown to be uninjurious to
wheat, 26.

Birds: facts and arguments in relation to two
questions; Are all birds in the habit of allur.
ing intruders from their nest? and, Why do
birds sing? 483; facts and arguments on
the mode of the origin of song in birds, 245;
arguments in proof that the song of birds is
innate, 567; singing birds are lovers of music,
144; an instance of the effect of the singing
of birds upon the feelings of man, 143; an
opinion on the degree of birds' power of
scent, 170; certain species of birds celebrated
for their stupidity and contempt of the de-
stroyer, man, acquire vigilant wariness in
places which man much frequents, 75; the
reason why nocturnal birds have become birds
of omen, and subjects of superstitions, 561;
insectivorous birds disgorge the indigestible
parts of coleopterous insects, 514; most, if
not all, granivorous birds, as well as some
others, swallow grit, to the end of its pro-
moting the trituration of their food, 460; the
colour of the irides of some species of birds
varies with the age of the bird, 345; the
names of species of birds of which individuals
in plumage anomalous to that of the species,
and permanent, have been known, 593; an
opinion that the change in the colours of the
plumage of birds kept in confinement is re-
ferable to the confinement and the nature of
the food upon which they feed, 598; a notice
of several instances of crossing and preter-
natural lengthening in the mandibles of birds,
of conditions in some of the instances, and an
opinion on the cause of all of them, 57; a
notice of instances of excrescences on the
head and other parts of the common hedge.
chanter and tree pipit, and a notice of con-
ditions in these instances, 58; if the mandible
of a bird be cut or broken, so as to induce
extravasation of blood, the bird must die, 57.
58; notices on a few of the birds of Lower
Canada, 508; the accumulation of all possible
information on the rock birds of Britain, by
the cooperative agency of naturalists residing
near headlands on the coasts, suggested; and
some information on the arrival, breeding.
and departure of the rock birds in the Island
of St. Kilda, 573; notes on the dates of the
arrival of the summer birds of passage about
Tooting, Surrey, with remarks on some of
the species, 338; notes on the movements of
the migratory land birds, previous to their
departure from Scotland, 145, 146 note; a
notice of some rare species of birds observed or
killed in the county of Suffolk, and adjoining
borders of Essex, during the winter months of

1832 and 1833, 52; the names of a few rather
rare birds which have been met with in the
neighbourhood of Charmouth, Dorsetshire,
513; a notice of the occurrence of certain less
common species of birds in Lexden and its
neighbourhood, in Essex, 18, 19; "In 1833,
birds increased prodigiously, and, in conse-
quence of the drought,were driven to desperate
measures," 197: see also Poultry; and, for other
kinds of birds, see their English generic names.
Bittern, the, occurs at Maldon, Essex, 511.
Blackbird, a notice of its agency in consuming
grubs in the soil, 459. and note; blackbirds
in white plumage, noted, 596.
Boatflies, Notonéctæ, facts on the habits of, 258.
Bombus terrestris will perforate flowers to
make way to their nectar, 571.
Bombyx menthástri, a pupa of, six pupas of the
Ophion vínulæ, and a pupa of Bombyx
vinulus, all found in company within, and
bred from the hard cocoon of the Bombyx
vinulus, 60.

Booby, the, identified, 74; it acquires wariness
in places frequented by man, 75.
Brambling, or bramble-finch, a description of
the song of, 487; a note on the variation in
the plumage of, 489.

Buccinum undàtum, a description of the ana
tony of the proboscis of, 410; B. palústre
Müller, synonymes of, 380; figure of a trun-
cated variety of, 161. 380.

Bullfinch, a poetical notice of the, 148. note*;
instances of the bullfinch in white plumage,
noted, 593, 594; an amendment in names for
the bullfinch proposed, 593.

Bustard, information on the great, 458; an in.
dividual of the little bustard has been killed
near Chatham, 458.
Butterfly, see Insects.

Canine animals, facts suggesting to man his
fittest mode of defending himself from the
attacks of, 1.

Caprimulgus, see Nightjar.
Carex heleonastes Ehrhart, the circumstances
of the discovering it in Switzerland, and a
description of its habitat there, 499; Carex
Gaudiniana Hoppe, characteristics and notice
of a Swiss habitat of, 500.
Cat, the domestic: one of its acts resembles, it
is suggested, one of the lion's, 139; sportsman-
like deeds of certain cats, 159. 502; an in.
stance of a cat's cognizance of the sound of a
door-bell, 502; the cat can, it is stated, imitate
the voice of birds, and this to the end of en-
ticing them, 540; instances of an extraor-
dinary capability of abstinence in cats, 140;
notices on the history of the tailless cats of
the Isle of Man, 159. 142; zoological recol.
lections on the cat, 325; notices of certain
omens connected with the cat, 545.
Catbird of N. America, Wilson's defence of,
from the prejudices prevalent against, 562.
Catocala clocata, stated to be not indigenous to
Britain, 177.

Cerambyx bajulus has eaten way through sheet
lead, 456. note t.

Cerùra vinula, remarks on the colour of its
eggs, 532.

Chameleon, see Lizards.

Char, a fact on the habits of the, 637.
Chélifer cancroides, facts on the habits of, 162.
Chough, the red-legged, occurs in Jersey, 462.
Cicada, a notice of the note of a species in St.
Vincent, 371.

Cicindela, synonymy belonging to, 78.
Classification; remarks on the conditions ne-
cessary to be complied with in consociating
species into subgenera, genera, families, and
other groups, 62. 64. 97.
Climate, see Volcanic emanations.
Clytus Arietis, facts on, 254.

Coccida of the West Indies, a note on, 602.
Colas Hyale and Edusa, notes on the condi-
tions which affect the periodical abundance
and scarcity of, 260; notes on C. Edusa, as
observed in the Isle of Jersey, 473; a species

of Colias has been observed to pass in an ex-
tended column across Trinidad and the Gulf
of Paria, 610. note +; a profile of the human
face is observable upon the upper side of the
primary wings of Colias Edusa, female, 262.
Conchology, British, a notice of the difficulties
which at present beset, 379.
Cordulia Curtis Dale, described, 60.
Crinoidea: information on the structure of the
fossil animals of the genera Encrinites, Cy.
athocrinites, Apiocrinites, 78. 179; and Platy-
crinites, 180.

Crocodile, an instance of its fascinating a bird,
519; Anthony Tempesta has, in his prints,
depicted the act of riding a crocodile, 334.
note*.

Crossbill, facts on the habits of the, wild, and
in captivity, 54. 58; an amendment in the sys-
tematic names of, proposed, 594.

Crow, the carrion, its eggs are sometimes co-
vered, 514; a pair of crows appropriate to
themselves a certain range, and beat intruders
from it, 514; the crow pecks out the eyes of
living sheep and lambs, 147; the crow does
not distinguish rook's eggs from her own, and
does not know the length of time which her
own require incubating, 103, 105; crows in
white plumage noted, 595.

Cuckoo, facts on the, 342. and note; a cuckoo
pursued by a meadow pipit, 348.

Curculionidæ, information on the habits of some,
459. note *.

Cuttlefish, description of the structure and of-
fice of the cup-like suckers upon the arms
of, 417.

Cyathocrinltes, see Crinoidea.

Cynthia cárdui, notes on the conditions which
affect the periodical scarcity and abundance
of, 260.

Cyrena trigónula Wood, described, and figured,
and its relations to C. depérdita Sowerby
stated, 275.

Deathwatch, see Ptínida.
Deiléphila nèrii and lineata, a note of the cap-
ture of cach in England, 260.
Delphax saccharívora Westwood, additional
particulars on, 496; some of these employed
in an argument on another subject, 610.
Dew, facts and arguments on the causes of,
453.

Dog, the, zoological recollections on, 321; in-
stances of dogs' feeding upon unusual food,
137; an instance of a dog's feeding upon
fishes just caught, 240; dogs are remarkably
fond of the alpine mouse, 181; facts suggest-
ing to man his fittest mode of defending him.
selt from canine animals, 1.

Dormouse, the common, an individual of, eats,
of its own choice, certain insects, 143.
Dorónicum Pardaliánches L. a British habitat
of, 273.

Dove, a notice of a hybrid, 154; zoological re-
collections on the dove, 406.

Drósera rotundifolia L., occasionally exhibits
its flowers in an expanded state, 273.
Ducks, certain, thought to have proceeded from
a union between the domestic duck and the
domestic fowl, characteristics of, 516; a men-
tion of an individual of the ferruginous duck
shot, 151.

Dungfly, the, facts on, 61. 530.
Dytiscus glaber, and minutus, facts on, 260; D.
marginalis, sec, Limnócharis.

Eagle two cinereous or white-tailed eagles
have been taken on a rabbit-warren, near
Thetford, Norfolk, 52; Mr. Waterton's ana-
lysis of Mr. Audubon's account of an aerial
encounter of an eagle and a vulture, 69.
Eel, the, sometimes breeds in isolated ponds,
601; a habitat of, 538; a clew to information
on the mode of propagation and on the habits
of, 283.

Eggs of anomalous structure, facts and remarks
on, 335; facts and considerations on the con-
ditions which appertain to birds in their pro-
ducing of their eggs, 336.

Empires, some of the natural boundaries of, Grain, notes on some species of insects which
noted, 95.

Encrinites, see Crinoidea.

Entomologia rustica, hints for a, 423.

consume, 255.

Grakle, the purple, incidents in the history of,

102.

Entomological Society of London, a notice of Granite, see Switzerland.
the first meeting of the, 59.
Entozda, a clew to information on, 94.
Eristalis tènax, information on, 184.
Falcónidæ, the, return, by the mouth, the
indigestible remains of the food they have
swallowed, 514; instances of the falcons
grasping their prey with remarkable tenacity,
334; a notice of localities for certain species
of Falco, and facts on the habits of these
species, 333.

Grenada, information on an insect which ra.
vages the sugar cane in, 496.

February the second, adages on, relatively to
the weather on, 539.

Feline animals, facts suggesting to man his fit-
test mode of defending himself from the at-
tacks of, 1.

Fieldfare, a notice of the song of, and facts on,
a caged one, 151.
Flies: notice of a mode of deterring house flies
from entering apartments, 271; flies have been
observed to feed eagerly on the extravasated
sap of elm trees, and have been found dead
afterwards, 527; flies, of various species, dead
in the posture of life, facts and remarks upon
several instances of, 530.

Fox, facts on the habits of the, 134; circum.
stantial evidence in proof that the fox will
capture fishes for food, 240; some of the fox's
observances when hunted, 401. note t; a
chained fox has spread some of its food within
the range of its chain, to tempt poultry within
its reach, 401. note †; zoological recollections
on the fox, 401.

Freshwater formations at Copford, near Col-
chester, Essex, an account of the strata of,
and of their fossil contents, 435; some notice
of the lacustrine formations at Stutton, by the
side of the river Stour, about six miles south
of Ipswich, and of some of the fossil shells
within them, 274.

Frost, see Hoarfrost.

Fucoides alleghaniénsis Harlan, a description
and figure of, and notices of the geological
relations of the places and strata in which it
is found, 27. 163.

Fungi, a description of a mode practised, by M.
Klotzsch, of drying specimens of, for preserv-
ation in herbariums, 131; a brief notice of
several species of epiphyllous Fungi which
have been observed in the neighbourhood of
Oxford, and have not been hitherto generally
known to occur in Britain, 24; Æcidium Ber-
béridis Persoon, and Puccinia Gráminis Per-
soon, can never inhabit the same species of
plant, 26, 27.

Fasus Turtoni Bean, a figure and description
of, 493.

Gall-bladder, a list of animals which have not
a, 317.

Geology: illustrations, by figures and remarks,
of the dissimilar appearances presented by the
dead stem of Sempervivum arboreum L., dur-
ing the successive stages of decay, to the end
of reconciling the dissimilar appearances of
specimens of stems of fossil species of plants,
32; a notice of some important geological
discoveries at Billesdon Coplow, Leicester-
shire, with observations on the nature of their
relation to the modern system of geology, 38.
See, also, Freshwater formations, Fucoides,
and Switzerland. The geological museum of
G. Mantell, Esq., is about to be removed to
Brighton, 49.

Geotrupes Bannàni Bromfield, characterised,
183.

Gern, see Salt.

Glowworm, localities in which the, has been
seen, and various facts in contribution to the
natural history of the glowworm, 250.
Goèrius èlens, facts on the habits of, 253, 254.
Gold, instances of the occurrence of, 647.
Goldfish with a double tail-fin, an instance of,
159; an opinion on the cause of, 283.

Guernsey and Jersey, the rook is rare in, and
does not build in, 462; the reputed origin of
the Guernsey lily's inhabiting Guernsey, 271;
the red-legged chough occurs in Jersey, but
is rare there, 462; notices on lepidopterous
insects observed in Jersey, 473.
Gull: some of the habits of an individual of the
lesser black-backed gull in partial confine-
ment, 511; notice of an attack of a large sea-
gull, in the manner of a species of rapacious
bird, upon a kittiwake gull, 512; the kitti-
wake is common on the coast of Dorsetshire,
513.

Hare: white hares, 504; a two-coloured hare,
505; black hares, 505; instances of sagacity
in the hare, 506; an instance of monstrosity
in a hare, 506; an omen connected with the
hare, 546. note †; zoological recollections on
the hare, 402.

Hawfinch, a notice of instances of persons find.
ing, in Britain, the nest and eggs of the, 156;
suggestions on the English and systematic
names of the hawfinch, 594.

Hawks, a fact suggesting the question, Have
they such power of sight as is usually ascribed
to them? 333; zoological recollections on the
hawk, 406.

Hedgehog, the, is subject to persecuting preju.
dices, 559. 654; pleas for it against these, 559
Hèlix octoòna Pennant, synonymes of, 161. 379;
a contribution towards the synonymy of H.
octona L., 380.

Henharrier and ringtail are identical, 335.
Heron, the common, facts on, 513.
Hespèria Acta on has been taken in plenty at
Lulworth, 499.

Hipparchia Janira, a profile of Chancellor
Brougham is, it is said, observable on the
reverse of the wings of, 262.

Hirundinidæ, those which visit Britain, dates
when first seen in spring, and last seen in
autumn, 337. and note t; their habits of
flight described, 346. See Swift.
Hoarfrost, facts and arguments on the causes
of, 453.

Hog, zoological recollections on the, $97.
Hoopoe, facts on the habits of, as observed near
Bordeaux, 155; instances of the occurrence
of the hoopoe in Britain, 155.
Hornet, facts on the habits of, 529.
Horse, zoological recollections on the, $15.
Humming-birds, a notice of the structure of the
tongue of, of its fitness to collect the nectar of
flowers, of the manner in which they take this,
and of some of their habits, 569; directions for
preserving the eggs of, for cabinets, 572; Mr.
Waterton's analysis of Mr. Audubon's ac-
count of the precocious flying of the young of
the ruby-throated humming-bird, 71; and of
his account of the nest of this species, 72;
notes on the habits of the red-throated species
(Trochilus Colubris), 510; some information,
and a clew to more, on humming-birds, 91.
Hydráchnadæ, information on the, 161.
Ice and icebergs, remarks on the causes of the
colour of, 440; facts on the conditions of ice
in various places, 618-630.
Ichneumons, a notice of certain, which, in a
winged state, devour the larvæ of other in-
sects, 266; a note on the power of stinging in
ichneumons, 266.

Ignes fatui, views on the origin of, 580
Insects: essays in explanation of the structure
of insects, and of its relation to their eco
nomy, 121. 235; an explanation of the process
of the circulation of the blood, and of that of
respiration, in insects, 235; a case in which
life in an insect's eggs is thought to have been
very persistent, 250; extreme cold does not
destroy life in insects' eggs, 246 522; notices


of instances of insects appearing in extraordi- |
nary numbers at certain times and places,
adduced in connection with an argument that
these appearings are owing, indirectly or di-
rectly, to volcanic emanations, 195. 308, 309.
610; Gonépteryx rhámni, Vanessa urticæ,
V. Io, and Amphidasis pilosària, mentions of
their early vernal appearance in Switzerland,
and remarks in argument that they are indi-
viduals which have newly escaped from the
pupa, not individuals which have hibernated,
240; a notice of certain species which are
deemed to hibernate in England, 523; insects
employ, for any merely mechanical end, any
suitable mechanical object, 534; a mention
of one instance, and references to others, of
insects perforating the corolla of plants, to
make way to the nectar contained, 571; notes
on luminous insects, chiefly of the West In-
dies, 579; a note on insects of extraordinary
configuration, 601; a list of the more rare of
the species of insects found on Parley Heath,
on the borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire,
and neighbourhood not exceeding five miles,
497; remarks on lepidopterous insects noticed
in the Isle of Jersey, 473; criticisms on figures
and accounts of certain of the species of in-
sects figured in Wood's Index Entomologicus,
and Stephens's Illustrations of British Ento-
mology, 176; notes on, and names of, some
species of insects which consume pulse, grain,
biscuits, &c., 255; suggestions on the most
advisable methods for discovering remedies
against the ravages of insects, 425; the au.
thorship of the prefixes pro, meso, and meta
belongs to Mr. Newman, not to Mr. Haliday,
77, 78; criticism on Mr. Newman's nomen.
clature for the thoracic appendages of insects,
178; a notice of a mode of injecting the bo-
dies of the larvæ and pupæ of insects, 572.
Iris, the Persian, the odour of its flowers, and
the idiosyncrasies therewith connected, 179.
Jackdaws consort with rooks, 106; instances of
anomalous plumage in the jackdaw, 595;
anecdotes of a domesticated jackdaw, 150;
notice of a tame jackdaw, so attached to its
protector as to accompany him wherever he
may go, 515.

Jay, a description of the song of the, 515.
Jersey. See Guernsey.

Kestrel, a, has been held fast by a magpie it
had struck at, 150; a mention of the kes.
trel, 334

Kite, notes on the, 334. 511.

Lacefly, the common, affixes its pedunculated
eggs to almost any object, 534.
Lacustrine formations.

ations,

See Freshwater form.

Lark the skylark sometimes sings before dawn
in fine weather, 144.
Leptocéphalus Morris Pennant, corrections to
the engraving of, 77.

Lerot, le, of Cuvier's Règne Animal, a descrip-
tion of, and facts on the habits of an animal
believed to be identical, 182, has this animal
ever been seen wild in Britain? 182.
Lexden, near Colchester, Essex, and its neigh-
bourhood, remarks on the natural produc-
tions of, 17.

Limnda lineata Bean, a figure and description
of, and of a reversed variety of, 493
Limui, the British, are ill-defined and ill-under-
stood, 379; three synonymes of Limnèus elon-
gatus Turton, 379; in reply to enquiry in, 161.
Limnocharis Latr., a species of, parasitic upon
Dytiscus marginalis
Linnet, the mountain, a description of the song
of, 489.

Lion, incidents on the hunting a, with sugges.
tions on the fittest mode of defending one's
self from the attack of a, 3; zoological recol-
lections on the lion, 320.

Lizards, notes on the voluntary changing of
colour in several genera of lizards, and more
especially in Chamæleon and Anòlis, 581;
lizards like music, 583.

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Locusts, instances of abundance of, in various
places, 195, 196. 308, 309. 610.
Lumbricus? Clitéllio Savigny? pellùcida,figured
and described, 131.
Lycæ'na dispar has occurred in two successive
summers, in a locality which was under wa-
ter for a considerable time in the intervening
winter, 522; an instance of difference of shape
in the upper wings of two males of L. dispar,
60; L. Arlon and A`cis have been taken in
plenty, 499.

Lycoris margaritàcea Lamarck, a figure and a
description of, 230.

Mackerel, the common, reasons for deeming it
not a migratory species, 637.
Macroglossa stellatarum, facts on the habits of,

475. 532.

Magpie, instances of enmity evinced by the, to
the kestrel, 149; a magpie has grasped and
held fast a kestrel that had attacked it, 150;
magpies have been employed to capture mag-
pies, 334. note; the magpie in cream-co-
loured plumage, noted, 595; the magpie is
termed nanpie in Yorkshire, 565.

Malachius, bipunctatus Bab., and other species
of, information on the diagnostics of, 178. 378.
525; with figures of two of the species, 378.
Malcomia maritima Brown, a British habitat
of, 271.

Man: facts suggesting to him his fittest mode
of defending himself from attacks of animals
of the feline and canine tribes, 1; an instance
of a high moral sentiment excited in man by
the singing of birds at early dawn, in summer
time, 143; a notice of a white negro, 589.
Mantell, G., Esq., about to reside in Brighton,
and remove his geological museum thither,

49.

Marten, facts on the, 503.
Martins and swallows, a mode of preventing
their affixing their nests to the surface of an
object, 82.
Melolontha fúllo, the fact of the capture of
one, 258; mentions of M. vulgàris, 247. 309.
Membràcis, figures of three species of, and in-
ferences on their habits, 602.

Merian, Madame, observations on most of the
insects and plants figured in her work on the
insects, &c., of Surinam, 355.

Meteoric phenomena, see Volcanic emana-
tions.

Meteors, an extraordinary display of, seen in
America, in the night of Nov. 13. 1833, 289;
speculations on the conditions of, 289. 385.
611; luminous meteors are very common in
the West Indies, 580; a notice of the occur.
rence of meteors, on Nov. 13., in 1834, 654.
Mirage, facts and arguments in relation to the
causes of, 450.

Mocking-bird, British, see Sedge-bird.
Mole: the fact of the capture of a mole of a
silvery ash-grey colour, with an orange mark
under the lower jaw, and a line of the same
colour down the belly, 143.

Molluscous animals, an introduction to the
natural history of the: their respiration, 106;
their food and digestive organs, 218; the food
and digestive organs of carnivorous Mollusca,

408.

Monkey': the original anecdote of a monkey's
employing a cat's paw, to preserve its own
from burning, 326. note; a mention of two
white monkeys, 591.

Mont Blanc. See Switzerland.

Mouse, a notice of a species of, possibly an un-
described one, which has abounded in Inver-
ness-shire and Ross-shire, 181.

Müllèria papillosa Johnston, a figure and a de-
scription of, 584.

Muscle, the freshwater, notice of a portion of
pearly matter found within a shell of, and of
the reason why it was formed there, 160.
Mytilus subsaxatilis Williamson, characteris-
tics, affinities, and habitats of, 358.
Nais L. serpentina Gmel., figured and described,

130.

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