ed by Other Animals
-- Lizard and Butterfly -- Scorpion and Fly -- Stoats and Hares -- Foxes
and Pullets -- Eagle and Rabbit -- Attractive Power of Fire --
Entomologist's Bull's-eye Lamp -- Yard-fire in Alabama -- Insects come
to the Fire -- Titmouse around a Gas-lamp -- Bell Rock Lighthouse
visited by Herring-gull -- Fire Fascinates Toads in Africa, 242

IX. SERPENT-CHARMING.

Revulsion Inspired by the Serpent -- Persons Professing Immunity against
Venomous Serpents -- Scriptural Allusions -- The Ancient Psylli and
Marsi -- Babylonian Magician -- Atyr -- Immunity Distinct from
Serpent-charming -- Hexagon the Ambassador -- Posterity of Psylli in
Sennaar -- Bruce's Curious Account -- Various Plants Antidotic to
Serpent-venom -- Experiments on _Simaba Cedron_ -- Peruvian Serpents and
Remedies -- Various South American Antidotes -- Vejuco of Venezuela --
Grass of Dahomey -- Immunity of Mangouste -- Anecdotes -- Of Hedgehog --
Bruce's Account of the Cerastes -- Hasselquist's Observations -- Psyllic
Woman -- Power of Spittle -- Influence of Music on Serpents --
Proceedings of Egyptian Charmers -- Rattlesnake Charmed by a Flute --
Cobra of India Attracted by Music -- Occasional Failures and Fatalities
-- Anecdotes -- Comments -- Psylli in London -- Are the Poison-fangs
Extracted? -- Power of Snake-stones -- Napier's and Tennent's Accounts
-- Faraday's Analysis -- Plant-remedies, 263

X. BEAUTY.

Delight in Beauty -- Divine Appreciation of it -- Magnificent Flower in
a Thicket -- Beauty of Deer -- Pet Fawn -- Eye of Gazelle -- Spotted Fur
-- Zebra-stripes -- Birds -- Spoonbills on the Amazon -- Carolina
Parakeet -- Cock of the Rock -- Soft blending in the Goatsuckers --
Resplendent Trogon -- Metallic Colours -- Rifle-bird -- Plume-birds --
Iridescent Hues -- Sun-birds -- Humming-birds -- Mexican Names --
Jamaican Humming-birds -- Mango -- Long-tail -- Cause of changeable
Lustre -- Angle of Light -- Other Examples -- Region of the Amazon and
Rio Negro -- Birds -- Fiery Topaz Humming-bird -- Cerro of Potosi --
Night-blowing Cactus -- Bar-tail Comet -- Pheasant tribe -- Chinese
Pheasants -- Fire-back of Java -- Argus of Malacca -- Impeyan of India
-- Polyprectons -- Peacock -- Wild Peacock-shooting -- Paradise-birds --
Emerald -- His Vanity in Dress -- Splendour of Insects -- Metallic
Beetles -- Soft Refulgence -- Gem-scales -- Butterflies -- Changes