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.