[77] Naturalist on the Amazon, p. 83.

[78] For many other confirmations see Sir E. Tennent, Nat. Hist. Ceylon, pp. 468-69.

[79] Kirby, vol. ii., p. 298.

[80] Thompson, Passions of Animals, p. 145.

[81] Loc. cit., p. 316 et seq.

[82] Hist. Habits and Inst. of Animals, vol. ii. p. 296.

[83] Nature, vol. xx., p. 581.

[84] Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders, p. 120.

[85] 'The History and Habits of Epeira aurelia,' in Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. for June 1865.

[86] Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders, p. 126. This admirable work, with its appendix, contains a very full account of the whole economy of the interesting animals with which it is concerned.