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INDEX. 



San Domingo Valley, 59. 



Sandhurst, Town of, 259. 



Sand-box tree, 15. 



Sand, calcareous and silicious associated, 

 362 ; shifting of, 18 ; rock, calcareous, 347 ; 

 rock, calcareous, absent at Tonga, 290; 

 tracks of animals on, 152. 



Sandwich Islands, the, 495. 



Santa Cruz Major Island, excursion to, 

 402. 



Sarcostemma Daltoni, 44, G3. 



Sargasso Sea, 567. 



Sargassum, 362, 367; bacclferum, 567. 



Saunders, Mr. Howard, on Laridsa, 69, 266. 



Savages, counting of, 358, 457 ; flower 

 gardens of, 466 ; forgetfulness of, 325, 

 358 ; difficulties in learning language from, 

 456 ; mistakes of, as to white men, 453 ; 

 relative decoration of sexes amongst, 461. 



Sawfish in fresh-water, 325. 



Sclater, Mr. P. L., on duck of the Sandwich 

 Islands, 500 ; and Mr. Salvin on Phala- 

 crocorax, 230. 



Scyll&a pelaglca, 568. 



Screw pines, 283, 294, 370; in Hawaii, 499. 



Sea-anemone, living in tube, 408 ; deep-sea, 

 409, 586 ; Pelagic, 572. 



Sea Beans, 17, 135. 



Sea-elephants, 114, 171, 187 ; bones of, 222 ; 

 food of, 205 ; herd of, 200 ; trunk of, 201 ; 

 mode of hunting, habits of, 227. 



Seal, Bladdernose, 203 ; food of, 189, 205 ; 

 Fur, 128, 188, 204; Fur, young, killed, 

 207; swimming of, 265 ; pet, 596. 



Scalpellum, large, 586. 



Sea-leopard, 200 ; bones of, 222. 



Sea Serpent, the, 430. 



Sea urchins, with poisonous spines, 12: 

 borings of, 42 ; at Fiji, 307. 



Seemann, Dr., on Fijian calendar, 295 ; on 

 Musa, 517. 



Seining at St. Jago Island, 57. 



Selkirk, Alexander, 537, 538, 541. 



Semper, Prof., on Fungla, 524; on lungs of 

 Land Crabs, 305. 



Sequoia glgantea, 260. 



Serolls, large, 586. 



Sexual selection in butterflies, 373; experi- 

 ments proposed on, 373. 



Sharks, at Fiji, 308; catching, 8, 71 ; colouring 

 of muscles of, 281 ; freshwater, at Fiji 

 and elsewhere, 325 ; large, caught, 57 ; 

 Port Jackson, 276 ; size of, and largest 

 known, 10 ; treatment of, by sailors, 58. 



Sharpe, Mr. E. Bowdler, on birds of Ker- 

 guklen's Land, 214; on Ground Owls, 431. 



Sheathbill, habits of, 171, 179, 196, 206, 209. 



Sheep, from Faster Island, 515; at the 

 Falkland Islands, 553. 



Signs, Papuan, expressing a gun, 437 ; ex- 

 pressive of killing a man, 441. 



Silk-cotton trees, 15. 



Silver tree, 142. 



Simon's Bay, 139. 



Slnapldendron Vogelll, 51 



Sipkcmacece, 12. 



Slpuncullds, larvae of, 402. 



Stutchbury, Mr. G., on fungia, 524. 



Skua, 123, 131, 174, 191, 206, 254. 



Slaves, condition of, in Brazil, 105 ; property 



of Europeans in Brazil, 102. 

 Snakes, at Cape or Good Hope, 153 ; feared 



by savages, 477 ; Sea, 292. 

 Snipe, 395. 



Solatium anthropophagorum, 339. 

 Sombrero Island, 8, 589. 

 Somerset, Cape York, 350. 

 Sonchus oleraceus, 115, 541. 

 Sorby, Mr. H. C, on Pele's Hair, 502. 

 Sounding, deep sea, time occupied in, 578. 

 Spalacini, 146. 



Spartina arundlnacea, 110, 115, 117. 

 Spartocytlsus nublgenus, 5. 

 Speotyto cunlcularla, 431. 

 Spermojrfillus mongolians, 431. 

 Sphe?ilscus, Magcllanlcus, 119, 125, 156, 560 ; 



demersus, 119, 155 ; minor, 125, 196. 

 Spkyrcena barracuda, 74. 

 Spider, Ground, 13 ; large, on board the 



" Challenger," 596 ; making horizontal 



web, 8. 

 Spider's web, bird caught in, 382 ; strong, 50. 

 Spondyhis shells at Bermuda, 21. 

 Sporadopora, 530. 

 St. Antonio Island, 41, 42, 50. 

 Stalactite deposit in streams, 378. 

 Starfish, giant, 363. 

 Starling, glossy, 382 ; nests of, 372. 

 Slatlce Jovls barba, 44. 

 Stenorynchus Leptonyx, 200. 

 Stephenson, Mr., excursion with, 256. 

 Stercorarlus Antarctlcus, 123, 131, 174, 191, 



206,254. 

 Sterna, fullglnosa, 349, 363, 563 ; lunata, 479 ; 



vlrgata, 171, 211. 

 St. Jago Island, 55, 56. 

 St. Michael's Island, 32. 

 Stone, sacrificial, at Fiji, 318. 

 Stone implements, at the Admiralty 



Islands, 468 ; at the Cape of Good Hope, 



147 ; grindstones for, 302, 319 ; used by 



Gudangs, 357 ; at Fiji, 313 ; improved 



modifications of, 326, 467 ; Papuan, 444 ; 



Tahitian adze, 523 ; at Tonga, 289. 

 Stone, mounds surrounded by slabs of, 317, 



327. 

 Stone weapons, of the Admiralty Islands, 



468 ; scattered at the Falkland Islands, 



560 ; Hawaian stone club, 510. 

 Storck, Mr., at Fiji, 323. 

 St. Paul's Island, 170, 189. 

 St. Paul's Kocks, 67 ; seaweeds of, 76 ; 



Noddies and Boobies at, 68, 72 ; smallness 



of, 74. 

 Strawberries, at Juan Fernandez, 538 ; at 



Tahiti, 516. 

 Struggle for existence amongst birds, 213. 

 St. Thomas, 11. 

 St. Vincent Island, 41. 

 StylasHeridoe, structure of the, 527-35. 

 Suckling, Lieut. K.N., trip with, 308. 

 Sugar-cane, grown for chewing, 11 ; planta- 

 tions at Fiji, 324; at Admiralty Islands, 



464; wild, 323, 433. 



