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INDEX. 



Collecting, pleasures of, 271 — in 

 Jamaica, 272 — in Brazil, 274 — 

 in Arm. 278. 



Condor, 119. 



Coral formations, 89. 



Crocodile, 262. 



Crusting, 207. 



Cuttle, assault of, 235. 



Cypress, large, 136. 



Cypress swamp, 228. 



Darter, 215. 

 Depths, life at, 64, 292. 

 Desert, life in, 68. 

 Devil-bird, 230. 



Diatoms, forms of, 96, 154 — influ- 

 ence of, 96— increase of, 155. 

 Dogs, wild, 238. 

 Dragon-tree, 133. 

 Duck, summer, 199. 



Eagle, Washington's, 184 — jealousy 



of, 198. 

 Egg of salpina, 167. 

 Elephant in Africa, 56 — height of, 

 -117— rage of, 247. 

 Elevations, insects of, 87. 

 Eiialiomun, existing, 361. 



Fauna, blind, 76. 



Fawn, Gemze, 210. 



Fern-owls, 186. 



Ferns, tree, 178. 



Fire-flies, 34. 



Fishes in boiling water, 75 — in bed, 



87 — in parlour, 88. 

 Flies, plagues of, 110. 

 Flints, origin of, 100. 

 Flosculana, 163. 



Flowers, spring, 6. 



Forest, leafing of, 7 — colours of, 10 

 — in Brazil, 59, 179 — planted by 

 birds, 103 — in Jamaica, 177. 



Frost, efi"ects of, 3. 



Ganges, source of, 55. 

 Gazelle, 39. 

 Golubacser fly. 111. 

 Gorilla, 257. 

 Grebes, 114. 

 Guacharo, 76, 232. 

 Guanaco, 49. 

 Gum-trees, large, 138. 



Hanno, voyage of, 257. 

 Heliconia, 175. 

 Hot springs, life in, 75. 

 Hyena in Palmyra, 41. 



Ice, trees in, 68. 



Iguana, case of, 361. 



Infusoria, 159. 



Insects, destructive, 105 — water, 15 

 — luminous, 34 — brine, 73 — at 

 sea, 84 — at great heights, 87. 



Invisible, the, 153. 



Islands, coral, 90. 



Jackal, shriek of, 237- 

 Jamaica, morning in, 16 — forest in, 

 177— collecting in, 272. 



Kangaroo, combat with, 254. 



Lagoons, 93. 

 Lammergeyer, 45. 

 Leafing of trees, 7. 

 Lion at midnight, 67. 



