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INDEX. 



Balfour, A. F., Lieut. B.N., ascent of Ter- 

 nate, 392. 



Batistes, habits of, 74 ; noise made by, 51. 



Bahia, appearance of town, 85. 



Bamboo Jews -harp, 401 ; spears, 402. 



Banda Island, 382 ; zones of vegetation at, 

 45. 



Bandicoots, hunting, 269. 



Banksia, 266; Loranthus on, 545. 



Barracuda, 74, 156. 



Barrington, Hon. Dalnes, experiments on 

 song of birds, 377. 



Barringtonia, 387, 433. 



Basilan Island, 405. 



Bat. Fruit, feeding on flowers, 291 ; habits 

 of, 268; at Aru, 375. 



Bat, pouch-winged, 103. 



Bathyactis symmetrica, size of, in deep water, 

 586. 



Bathyergus suilus, habits of, 145. 



BdeUostoma, 156. 



Bee Eater, 353. 



Belemnites, search for, 586. 



Bell, origin of the, from wooden drum, 322. 



Beione, 58, 83, 88 ; habits of, 479. 



Belt, Mr. Thomas, on Ants, 104 ; on cock- 

 fighting, 413; on dress in Nicaragua, 

 411; on sharks, 325. 



Bendigo, 259. 



Bennett, Dr. G., on Nautilus, 299 ; on Onii- 

 thorynchus, 263 ; on Porto Praya, 65. 



Berkeley, Rev. M. J., on fungi of Tristan 

 da Cunha, 136. 



Bermuda, 18. 



Betel, chewing of, 464. 



Bethell, G. R., Lieut. B.N., excursion with, 

 546. 



Betsey Cove, 196. 



Bible, the, of a Boer, 150 ; King Thackom- 

 bau's, 319. 



Bipalium, 494. 



Birds, at Api, 345 ; burrowing, 123, 125, 131, 

 207, 560 ; change of habits in, 125 ; 

 migrations of, in Torres Straits, 364; 

 learning by experience, 74 ; Land, met with 

 at sea, 482 ; notes of, not necessarily a test of 

 race, 377 ; of Heard Island, 230; of prey 

 at St. Jago Island, 59 ; Sea, nesting with 

 Land, 83 ; Sea resting on drift-wood, 367 ; 

 tameness of, 122,210, 552; young, pug- 

 nacity of, 72 ; young, power of conceal- 

 ment of, 552. 



Birds of Paradise, the King, 377 ; arrows 

 used to kill, 374 ; for sale, 391, 392 ; the 

 Great, cry of, 376 ; the Great, nunmit of, 

 375. 



Birgiis latro, 304, 403. 



Blekk, Dr. W. H., on Bushmen, 148. 



Bladder-nose Seal, 129. 



Bligh's Cap, l«:i. 



Boatswain Birds, 25, 282, 5! 6, 563. 



Boatswain-Bird Island, 562. 



Bodleian Library, Pigeon- English at the, 416. 



Bolas, the, for cattle, &c, 557 ; for wild 

 geese, 558. 



Bolax g/cliaria, 166. 



Bombinator igneus, 93. 



Bonito, mode of catching, 53. 



Boobies, 68, 83, 363, 563 ; nests of, 72, 83, 

 349, 563 ; young of, 72. 



Booby Island, 83, 363 ; a resting place for 

 migrating birds, 364. 



Books, Chinese, development of, from the 

 roll, 417. 



Borborus apterus, 559. 



Botany Bay, 266. 



Botryococus in hot springs, 36. 



Bows and arrows, of Api Islanders, 346; 

 gradual development of, 443 ; at Humboldt 

 Bay, 443 ; not known at the Admiralty 

 Islands, 468, 478. 



Bradypus tridactylm, 104. 



Brazil, convict settlement of, 78 ; slavery in, 

 106 ; excursions in, 85. 



Brine, Capt. Lindesay, B.N., visit to 

 Crozets, 183. 



Bromeliaceous epiphytes, 15, 90, 278. 



Browera Creek, 270. 



Brown, Mr. K., on colour of muscles of 

 seals, 204; on discolouration of Arctic 

 seas, 249 ; on food of seals, 189. 



BrowNE, Sir Thomas, on Unicorns' horn, 

 426. 



Buchanan, Mr. J. Y., on natural sand- 

 blast, 222 ; on rocks of Kerguelen's 

 Land, 195 ; on ice, 233, 250 ; on stones 

 dropped by ice, 219 ; on St. Paul's Rocks, 

 75 ; at Humboldt Bay, 442 ; experiment 

 on deep-sea pressure by, 579. 



Buckholtz, Dr., on food of seals, 189. 



Buffaloes, 395. 



BURETA, 310. 



Burials, of Admiralty Islanders, 476; of 



Australian Blacks, 360 ; of Hawaians, 498 ; 



native, at the Cape of Good Hope, 149 ; 



in Torres Straits, 363. 

 Bushmen, middens of, &c, 149. 

 Butterfly, clicking, 89 ; at Tristan da 



Cunha, 134 ; Bird- winged, 373. 



C. 



Cacatua galerita, 264, 352. 



Cactus, 16, 141, 544. 



Caladium esculentum, 35, 464. 



Calcareous, algse, 12, 76, 581, at St. Vincent 

 Island, 46 ; sand, pipes formed by, 149 ; 

 sandstone, with volcanic intermixture, 

 78 ; sandstone, weathering of, 78, 83. 



Caldeira de? Sette Cidades, 37. 



CaUitriche Verna, 191, 224. 



Calophyllum inophyllum, 305, 387. 



Calornis metalhca, 372, 382. 



Calotragus melanutis, 151. 



Calycopterix Moseleyi, habits of, 192. 



Cameron, S. L., Commander R.N., on pile- 

 dwellings, 400. 



Camiguin Island, volcano at, 409. 



Campbell and Auckland Islands, the, 189. 



Cannibalism, at Fiji, 318, 320, 325, 327 ; at 

 Fiji and New Zealand, 339 ; of white 

 men, 341 ; at Admiralty Islands, 473 ; 

 cannibal convicts interviewed, 309. 





