(Pope, The Wife of Bath.)
Fig. 49.—Diagram of burrow of field-mouse.
The field-mouse is prolific, the female producing several litters throughout the greater part of the year. The mother carries the young-born litter about for two or three weeks, nipping the skin of her offspring at the side, half-way between the fore and hind legs. The average number of young born at one time is probably somewhere about five, though litters of nine are by no means unknown. All predaceous animals naturally eat field-mice, and they are the favourite food—at any rate, in some localities—of owls.
INDEX
- Agramonte, Dr., [105]
- Albertus Magnus, [135]
- Allen, H. Warner, [151]
- Anobium paniceum (biscuit-‘weevil’), [111], [112]
- A. striatum, [111]
- Apodemus sylvaticus (field-mouse), [153], [154]
- Anopheles maculipennis, [42], [65], [106];
- head of, [49];
- distribution of, [51];
- hibernation of, [54];
- breeding habits of, [55]-6;
- sensibility to light, [59];
- and colour, [60]-3, [110];
- extermination of, [63];
- buzzing of, [73]-4;
- eggs of, [78];
- larva, [86]
- Austen, [55]
- Bacillus lactis aerogenes, B. cloacae, [23]
- Bell, [135]
- Bellesme, Jousset de, [72]
- Biscuit-‘weevil,’ [111]-13
- Blandford, Dr., [135], [140]
- Blattodea, [4]
- Bombay Plague Commission, [137], [145]
- Bot- or warble-fly, [25], [27];
- effect on cattle, [40];
- cure for, [41]
- British Medical Journal, [24], [63]
- Browne, Sir Samuel James, [27]
- Cambon, [59]
- Canada, [31], [32]
- Carpenter, Prof. G. H., [36]
- Carroll, Dr., [105]
- Ceratopogon, [42]
- Challenger, H.M.S., [16]
- Churchill’s Voyages, [142] n.
- Cropper, J., [63]
- Cockroaches (Periplaneta), [1], [3];
- food of, [8], [11], [13], [17]
- Culex, [42], [50], [51], [55], [58], [79], [88], [90], [106]-7
- Duncan, P. M., [21] n.
- Dusaussois, [148]
- Ectobia, [4]
- Elephantiasis, [47]
- Entomology, Washington Bureau of, [114], [118]
- Ephestia cautella, [114], [115], [117], [121]
- E. kühniella, [115], [116], [117]
- Field-mouse, [154]-9
- Fig-moth, [114];
- ravages of, [117]-22;
- prevention of infection by, [123]
- Filaria, [47]
- Filaria rhytipleurites, [21]
- Filaria labiato-papillosa, [131]
- Finlay (of Havana), [104]
- Finsch, [53]
- Gardiner, J. Stanley, [73]
- Gesner, [136]
- Gleichen-Russworm, von, [73]
- Grassi, [54], [55], [68], [77], [78], [79], [84]
- Gray, [58]
- Hadwen, Dr., [31], [32]
- Halobates, [2]
- Helm, [135]
- Hewitt, T. R., [36]
- Hindle, Mr., [131]
- Howard, [58], [71], [74], [77], [94]
- Hypoderma, [25], [28]
- Hypoderma bovis, [31], [32];
- eggs of, [34]
- Hypoderma lineatum, [31], [32];
- eggs of, [34], [38]
- Imms, Mr., [31]
- Infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), [132]
- Irish Department of Agriculture, [36]
- Ismailia, [98]
- Jenyns, [136], [141]
- Johnston (of Baltimore), [65], [66], [67]
- Joly, [74]
- Kerschbaumer, [57]
- Lantz, Dr., [147] n.
- Larva, of bot-flies, [28], [35];
- of mosquitos, [80]-5, [90], [91], [97];
- of yellow-fever mosquito, [107];
- of stable-fly, [130]
- Latter, [4]
- Lazear, Dr., [105]
- Lefroy, Prof., [63]
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, [55]
- Lyddeker, [146]
- Malaria, [48], [104];
- prevention of, [98]
- Maxim, Sir Hiram, [75]
- Mayer, [67]
- Miall and Denny, [5]
- Microlepidoptera, [116] n.
- Morrell, Dr. C. Conyers, [21], [23]
- Moseley, Prof., [16]
- Mosquitos, biting apparatus, [43];
- wings, [50];
- hibernation of female, [54];
- food of, [64]-7;
- experiments with, [60]-3, [67]-8;
- how to avoid, [63]-4;
- auditory organs of, [65];
- buzzing of, [68]-74;
- eggs of, [76]
- Moufet, [3]
- Muridae, [154], [156]
- Mus or Epimys, [135]
- Mus rattus or Epimys rattus, [135] n., [136], [139], [144], [145]
- M. decumanus or Norvegicus, [135] n., [137], [140], [141], [142], [145]
- M. alexandrinus, [140]
- Musca domestica, [125], [126]
- Neumann, R. O. and O., [109]
- Nuttall, Professor, [47], [52], [54], [56], [57], [58], [71], [77]
- Ormerod, Miss, [28], [30]
- Oestridae (bot-flies), [28]
- Pennant, [138], [139], [141]
- Perez, J., [71], [72]
- Periplaneta orientalis, [4], [5], [16]
- P. americana, [4]
- P. germanica, [5], [16]
- Plague conveyed by rats, [149]
- Port Swettenham, [98]
- Ptinidae, [111]
- Pupa of mosquitos, [92]-5, [97]
- Pyralidae, [116] n.
- Rats, black, or Old-English, [137];
- brown, [141];
- ravages of [145]-9;
- estimated annual damage by, [149];
- diseases conveyed by, [149];
- destruction of, [150], [152];
- in the trenches, [151]
- Reed, Dr. Walter, [105]
- Ross, Sir Ronald, [97], [98], [104]
- Sam Browne belts, [26]
- Sigmodon (rice-rat), [140]
- Smyrna, Report of the fig-moth in, [114] n.
- Smyth, E. G., [118]
- Sphex (or Chlorion), [20]
- Spirogyra, [84]
- Stable-fly, [125];
- food of, [128];
- diseases conveyed by, [131], [132]
- Stegomyia calopus or fasciata, [101], [105];
- domesticated, [108];
- bites of, [108], [110]
- Stomoxys calcitrans (stable-fly), [125];
- distribution of, [127];
- eggs of, [129];
- diseases conveyed by, [131], [132], [133];
- extermination of, [133]
- Symbius blattarum, [21]
- Thayer, Dr., [53]
- Thomas, Oldfield, [140]
- Trichinella spiralis, [149]
- Trypanosoma, [131]
- ‘Warbled’ hides, [30]
- Watson, Dr. Malcolm, [98]
- Weaver, A. de P., [74], [75]
- Weinland, [73]
- Whelan, R. G., [37]
- White, Gilbert, [5]
- Wilson, Edwin, [69], [73]
- Xestobium tessellatum, [111]
- Yellow-fever, [101]-3;
- localities affected by, American commission on, [105]
- Yellow-fever mosquito, [101], [104];
- metamorphosis of, [109]
- Yersin, [149]
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Transformation of Insects, by P. M. Duncan. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1882.
[2] From the Portuguese ‘cuspidor.’ Cf. the Latin ‘conspuere.’