492 
INDEX 
Red-deer, origin of, 68 
Red-fin in drift area, 60 
Regan, on bony-pikes, 164 ; Central 
American Cichlidae, 234 ; land-con¬ 
nection between South America and 
Africa, 379 
Regulus, in Nova Scotia, 56 ; dis¬ 
persal, 114, 115 ; cuvieri, 115 ; 
satrapa, 115 ; calendula, 115 
Rehn and Hebard, Bermudan Orthop- 
tera, 189 ; Orthoptera of Florida, 
179 
Reindeer, forms of, 3, 4 ; original 
home, 4, 5 ; extinct Irish, 12 ; 
in Iceland, 12 ; former range in 
Europe and America, 6, 35 ; in 
Newfoundland, 55 
Reithrodon, 431 
Relict lakes, explanation of term, 49 
Rhamphastidae, 250, 368 
Rhea, 373, 374, 396 
Rhinema floridana, 173 
Rhineura, 203 
Rhinocerotidae, 229 
Rhoads, structure of Greenland hare, 
9 
Rhopalomesites, 178 
Rhynchophora, 387 
Rhynchopsittaeus, 172 
Rhysida, 382 
Rice, geology of Bermuda, 184 
Rice-rats, in Antilles, 284, 285 ; in 
Galapagos, 298 
Richardson, isopods of Florida, 179 ; 
isopods of Bermuda, 190 
Ridgway, birds of Galapagos, 301 
Ridley, on Fernando de Noronha, 384, 
385 
Riffarth (see Stichel). 
Robbins and Cockerell, on Veroni- 
cella, 194 
Robinson and Greenman, flora of 
Galapagos islands, 314, 315 
Rockall Bank, shallow water species 
dredged near, 17 
Rocky Mountains, 100—104 ; plants 
of in Southern Andes, 414 — 418 
Roe-deer, affinity with American deer, 
111 
Romerolagus, 226 
Rorig, affinity of American deer, 111 
Roth, fauna of Santa Cruz beds, 399, 
400 
Rothschild and Hartert, birds of 
Galapagos islands, 302 
Roosevelt, land reserves in Rocky 
Mountains, 118, 119 
Rumina decollata, 192, 273 
Rupicapra, 106 
Rupicola crocea, 362 
Ruscinomys, 372 
Russell, extent of American ice-sheet, 
33 ; former drainage of Mississippi, 
54 ; description of Rocky Moun¬ 
tains, 102 ; absence of trees in 
prairies, 145 
Ruthven, prairie forms of animal 
life, 145 ; origin and varieties of 
garter-snakes, 128, 222 
Rutimeyer, on Antarctic continent, 
420 
Rydberg, antiquity of Rocky Moun¬ 
tain flora, 103 
S 
Salamander, giant, 135, 136 ; tiger, 
136, 137 ; blunt-nosed, 136 
Salamandridae, 136, 137 
Saida, 391 
Salisbury (see Chamberlin). 
Salvin and Godman, birds of Central 
America, 250 ; insects of Central 
America, 258 
Salvin, birds of Galapagos islands, 
301 
Sandberger, on Tertiary mollusks, 
176 ; on Helicidae, 206 
Santa Cruz fossil beds, 246, 398—404 
Sarasin, on age of Coeciliidae, 251 ; 
on age of Typlilopidae, 252, 288 ; 
origin of Galapagos, 313 ; dispersal 
of Herpele, 370 
Saturnidae, 381 
Sauresia, 281 
Scalaria rugulosa, 428 
Scalops aquaticus, 142 
Scapanus, 201 
Scaphiopus, 204, 220 ; holbrooki, 205 
Scaphirhynchus, 83 ; platyrhynclius, 
88 
Scaphoceros tyrelli, 155 
Scarabaeidae, 425 
