INDEX, 



519 



Valleys of New South Wales, 437 

 Valparaiso, 252, 313 

 Vampire bat, 22 

 Vapour from forests, 24 

 Van Diemen's Land, 446 

 Vanellus Cayanus, 114 

 Vanessa, flocks of, \5S 

 Vanikoro, 469, 471, 475 

 Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, 



489 .^ 

 on opposite sides of Cor- 

 dillera, 326 



., luxuriant, not necessary 



to support large animals, 85 

 Ventana, Sierra, 107 

 Verbena melindres, 40 

 Villa Vicencio, 331 

 Virgularia Patagonica, 99, 202 

 Volcanic bombs, 493 



— islands, 8 



phenomena, 31 1 



Volcanos near Chiloe, 273, 275, 291, 



, their presence determined 



by elevation or subsidence, 480 

 Vulturaura, 58, 184,284 



Waders, first colonists of distant is- 

 lands, 380 



Waimate, New Zealand, 421 



Walckenaer on spiders, 38 



Walleechu tree, 68 



Wasps preying on spiders and killed 

 by, 35—38 



Water-hog, 49 



Water, sold at Iquique, 362 



. ., fresh, floating on salt, 39, 



458 

 Waterhouse, Mr., on Eodents, 49, 378 

 . on the Niata ox, 



146 

 , . on the insects of Ti- 



erra del Fuego, 238 

 of Gala- 



Waves, caused by fall of ice, 224. 



246 



from earthquakes, 305, 309 



Weather, connection with earth- 

 quakes, 351 

 Weather-board, N.S.Wales, 437 

 Weeds in New Zealand, imported, 



392,428 , ^ ^^ 



Weight of large quadrupeds, 87 

 Wellington, Mount, 448 

 Wells, ebbing and flowing, 458 



at Iquique, 364 



West Indies, banks of, 439 



, coral reefs of, 472, 480 



, zoology of, 132 



Whales, oil from, 1 7 



leaping out of water, 223 



White, Mr., on spiders, 35 

 Wigwams of Fuegians, 212 

 Williams, Rev., on infectious disor- 

 ders, 435 

 Winds, dry, inTierra del Fuego, 231 



. at the Cape Verds, 3 



-, cold, on Cordillera, 360 



- on Cordillera, 323 



Winter's Bark, 235, 281 

 Wolf at the Falklands, 193 

 Wood, Capt., on the Agouti, 70 

 Woollya, 221 



Yaquil, 265 



Yeso, Valle del, 319 



York Minster, 208 



Zonotrichia, 52 



Zoological provinces of N. and S. 



America, 131 

 Zoology of Galapagos, 377 



of Keeling Island, 456 



of Tierra del Fuego, 236 



. of Chonos Islands, 287 



— of St Helena, 490 



jagos, 381, 392 



!!!!^\t'Falkland Islands 201 

 Zorillc, or skunk, 80 



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