306 
Stove, Indian, 189 
Strabo, 280 
Sugantia, 108 
Sugar, 5; came, 47, 55 and 1.; 
plantations, 46 
Sugar-loaf hills, 153 
Sulphide of copper, 70; iron, 70; 
silver, 70 
Swallows, 124 
Sweet potatoes, 56 
Tabanus, 239 
Tablasén, 152, 202 
Tenitotes scalaris, 56, 142, 290 
Talcose schists, 195, 198, 200 
Tanagers, 7, 30, 99 
Tapir, III ; 
Termites, or white ants, 142, 222 
Thaloc, the god of rain, 133 
Thalurania venusta, 106 
Thecle, 229 
Theopompus, on a large island 
outside of Europe, Asia, and 
Africa, 208 
Thunderbolts, 121 
Tillandsia, 144, 
usneoides, 184 
Timetes, 84; cheron, 119 
Tinamus, 95, 111 
Tiste, 187, 249 
Toledo, 126 
Toltecs, 277; 
maize, 45 
Tomatoes, 56 
Tortillas, 140, 155 
Totagalpa, 195, 200, 213 
Toucans, 7, 21, 95, 96; beak of, 
7, 21, 97, 154 
Trachyte, 127, 128, 131, 134, 219, 
224, 266 
‘lrappean dykes, 76 
Trap rocks, 191, 212 
* Trogon atricollis, 95; caligatus, 95; 
elegans, 127; females, dull 
coloured, 95; melanocephalus, 
42,127; resplendens, 191 
Trogons, 19, 21, 42, 95, 96, 184 
Tschudi, on indigenous dogs of 
tropical America, 160 
Tylor, Mr. Alfred, on the re- 
duction of the level of the sea, 
T83, 47568," 221; 
the cultivation of 
205 
Tylor, E. B., on the couvade, 279, 
280; his Early History of Man- 
kind, 279, 282 .; on whirlwinds 
in Mexico, 25: 
The Naturalist in Nicaragua 
| Ubaldo, San, 38, 179 
| Ulleros, 29, 32, 33, 34 
| Ulli, 29 
| Unto, 253 
Urania leilus, 120 
Utopia, 26 
Vacqueros, 148, 150, 163 
Vanilla plantfolia, 57 
| Velasquez, Don Francisco, 62, 92, 
118, 119 
Vertebrata, 25 
Viduas, 96 
Viena paraca, 222 
| Virgin Islands, 205; carved rocks 
of, 44 
| Volcanoes, Caracas, 267; Cosa- 
guina, 266; Masaya, 264, 270; 
San Miguel, 267; St. Vincent, 
267-71 
Vultures, 156 
| 
| Wallace, Mr. A. R., on Angre- 
cum sesquipedale, on brightly 
coloured caterpillars, 244; on 
the faunas of the Malay archi- 
| pelago, 206 
War, not always a curse, 135 
Wasps, 21, 24, 103, 123, 177, 
| 222; attending leap-hoppers, 
| 177; hunting for spiders, 103; 
| killing caterpillars, 104, 105; 
| nests of, 123; taking note of 
place to which they wish to 
| return, 104 
Water-beetles, 137, 
bearing plants, 144 
Waterfall near San Domingo, 127; 
of El Salto, 128 
Westwood, Professor, on nests of 
| __ mygale 
| Whirlwind, 229, 231; origin of, 
230 
Whitecap, 107 
Wolves, or Coyotes, 40 
Wood-lice, 21, 137; 
ants, 90 
Woodpeckers, 95, 96; tongue of, 
89 
Xilomen, feast of, 45 
Xolotlzcuintlt, 160 
Yalaguina, 195, 217 
Yales, 192, 202 
| Yucatan, the cross in, 133 
| 
253, 255; 
| 
chased by 
Zeolite, 227 
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