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.,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
Grakle, the purple, incidents in the history of,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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,
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,
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