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The Romance of Natural History, Second Series · Philip Henry Gosse — chapter 39 of 44 · ~136 words · public domain

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Changeable colours, 315.

Climbers of tropical forests, 368.

Climbing perch, 123.

Cock of the rock, 307.

Corals, parasitic, 380.

Corncrake, torpidity of, 198.

Cowpen bird, 381.

Crabs, parasitic habits of, 379.

Crane-fly, luminous, 231.

Creation progressive, 89.

Cuckoo, habits of, 381.

Deer, elegance of, 304.

Deposition, rate of geologic, 47.

Dinothere, 5, 14.

Dodo, 74.

Drift, remains in, 44.

Eagle fascinates rabbit, 259.

Eel, wanderings of, 122.

Eggs, fossil, 37, 38.

Elephant of Siberia, 6, 20.

Elk, Irish, 14, 49-57, 61.

Entozoic worms, 360.

Europe, early condition of, 3.

Extinction of species, 1, 81, 88.

Fascination in serpents, 242 --in lizards, 255 --in scorpion, 256 --in stoats, 257 --in fox, 258 --in eagle, 259.

Fig-trees, parasitic, 364.

Fire attracts insects, 260 --birds, 261 --toads, 262.

Fishes, showers of, 109-117 --torpidity of, 118 --travelling, 121 --parasitic, 376.

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