THE INDEX 



213 



Hawks, 141, 142 

 Heliconia, 170 

 Heron : 



blue, 143 



green, 143 f. 

 History and geography work, 



198 

 Howlers, 171 f. 



Humidity of Canal Zone, 200 

 Humming birds, 155 f. 



tongue of, 156 



Iguanas, 134 f. 

 as a food, 135 



hunted by coatis, 160 f. 

 Indians on Isthmus of Panama, 



I, 3, 7 

 Insects, importance of, 201 

 Isthmus of Panama: 

 climate, 3 

 early roads of Spaniards 



across, 2 f. 

 location, i, 2 

 of gold hunters in 1849 



across, 8 

 under water thousands of 



years ago, 13 



Jacanas, 141 



Jaguar, 164 



Jamaica, canal workers from, 



182 

 Jungle: 



plant growth in, 44 



temperature in, 52 

 Jungle Peace, by William 



Beebe, 195 

 Jungle roof, 43, 50, 52 



Kingfishers, 142 

 King's highways, 2, 8 

 Kirkpatrick, Z. R., cited, 199 



Ladder made of spikes, 38 ff . 

 Lazear, Dr., 183 

 Lianas, 39, 47, 48 



Lizards, 123 ff. 



ancestors of, 123 f. 



Anolis, 126 ff. 



basilisk, 132 ff. 



descendants of, 124 



loss of tail, 130 ff. 

 Llama, 13 



Logging in the jungle, 51 

 Long-headed tree snake, 115 

 Lorita, 148 f. 



Macaw, 147 

 Machete, 39 

 Mahogany trees, 51 

 Malaria, 179 ff. 



how combated in Canal 

 Zone, 188 ff. 



in days of Spanish explorers, 



5 

 in India, 183 



successfully treated by the 

 Americans, 9 

 Manakins, 137, 154 

 Map work, 198 

 Marmosets, 173 f. 

 Marty, Captain, 164 

 Miraflores Locks, 10, 26 

 Milk in Canal Zone, 102 

 Milkweed, 44 

 Monkeys, 162 ff. 



black howlers, 1 7 1 f . 



capuchin, 162 ff. 



marmosets, 173 f. 



night, 172 f. 

 Morgan, Henry, raids of, 6 £., 



179 

 Mosquitoes: 



conquest of, 179 ff. 



eggs laid in water, 184, 193 



how driven from Canal 

 Zone by Americans, 185 ff, 

 Motmot, 137, 153 f. 

 "Mountain cows." 5^^ Tapirs 

 Mushrooms of Attas, 58 ff. 



Natural history, 201 

 Naturalist in Nicaragua, by 

 Thomas Belt, 196 



