3 OTe) 
ants, 20; fertilising flowers, 
FOL; nestS, 21, 222; rejecting 
Heliconii, 244 
Bittern, 124 
Bland, Mr., on the distribution of | 
land shells in the West Indies, | 
205 
Blewfields, R., 11, 43, 50, 121 
Boulder clay, 191, 200, 224 
Boundary question between Nica- 
ragua and Costa Rica, 15 
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, 
271 
Brazil, migratory butterflies of, 
120 
Breadfruits, 5, 55, 56 
Bromelia, 39, 42, 239 
Bruce, on whirlwinds in Africa, 
231 
Buccaneers, 186, 197 
Bugs, 57, 99; injecting poisonous 
fluid, 99 
Bullock, Mr. W., on the use of 
rattles in Mexico, 121 
Bull’s-horn thorn, 21, 169; wasps 
attending glands of, 169 
Bungos, 27 
Buprestide, 240 
Burial customs of the ancient 
Indians, 133, 134 
Buttertiies, 7;85, °89;\ 11¢- 142; 
instinct of, 85; migrations of, 
720; in \ Rio . Plata, 7203) “in. 
Patagonia, 120; Mr. Darwin on, 
120; Mr. R. Spruce on, 120 
Cabbage, 56 
Cacao, 5, 91, 263 
Cactuses, 39, 123; tree, 183 
Californian pitcher-plant, 144, 145 
Callidryas, 84 
Calliste larvata, 100; laviniz, 99 
Calopteron basilis, 243; vicinum, 
243 
Canal, interoceanic, 31 
Candelera, El, 251 
Candolle, Alph. de, on fresh-water 
productions, 253 
Canis caratbicus (Lesson), 
tinge (Tschudi), 160 and n. 
Capsicums, 56 
Captive Indians, 52 
Carabide, 117 
Carbolic acid, 61, 62 : 
Carca Indians, 83; R., 83, 115 
160; 
Caribbean Sea, carving on rocks | 
on the banks, 44 
The Naturalist in Nicaragua 
Caribs, 4, 13, 44, 46, 278 and u.; 
food of the, 46, 278 n. 
Carlos, San, 31, 32, 34; 
31, 35 
Carrots, 56 
Castillo, 28, 30, 31; capture of by 
Nelson, 28 
B27, 
| Castilloa elastica, 29 
Caterpillars, 57 
| Catlin, G., on traditions of the 
Abbé, | 
271; on the Teo Amoxtli, 209, | 
deluge among the American 
Indians, 209; Lifted and Sub- 
sided Rocks in America, by 
Cattle, 42, 220, 237; raising, 121 
236, 250 
Cebus albifrons, 122, 260; white- 
faced, 122; anecdotes, 92 
Cecropia, 16, 172, 173 
Cedar, 13, 30, 89 
Cedrela odorata, 13, 30, 89 
Celeus castaneus, 96 
Cement, 196; white, 195 
Centipedes, 21, 108, 137 
Central America, States of, absence 
of patriotism in, 134, 135, 261; 
civil war, 161; tyrannical oligar- 
chies, 133, 261 
Centrurus pucherant, 96 
Chicchera, 40 
Chicha, 179, 213 
Chichalakes, 95 
Children, great numbers of, 155, 
got 
Childs, Colonel O. W., survey for 
canal, 31 
Chilote, 45 
Chioties, 54 
Chirosctphia lineata, 126 
Chlorophanes guatemalensis, 100 
Chocoyo, R., 236 
Choluans, 277 
Chontales, birds of,16, 287; insects, 
291; derived from chontali, 276; 
Mining Co., 13, 50, 53, 70, 71 
Chontales and Costa Rica, con- 
nection of forest forms, 287, 
288 
Chontals, 121 
| Cicade, 127, 178, 239 
Cinerary urns, 129, 134- 
Citron trees, 54 
Citrus aurantium, 60; lemonum, 60; 
medicus, 60 
Clarke, Mr. Hyde, 279 
Claro, Santa, 251 
Clausilia, 254 
Clavigero, 54; 
cuintli, 160 
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