Bird-fly. See Ornithomyia.
Birds, on the pampas, 19; aerial dances of, 265; fear in, 83-100; affected by fire-light, 176; how they escape the bush-ticks, 144; wandering bands of, 252.
Black-faced ibis, 265.
Boddam-Whetham, Mr. J. W., anecdote of puma, 52.
Bombas thoracicus, 154.
B. violaceus, 154, 157.
Burrowing owl, 24, 66; a snake-killer, 73.
Burton, Captain, on bush-ticks in Brazil, 141.
Bush-ticks, 141-145.
Buteo eythronotus, 175.