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INDEX. 



Flying-fish, flight of, 495 ; hooked, 

 45 ; shooting at, 488. 



Fogg Island, 47. 



Foraminifera, at St. Vincent Is- 

 land, 41 ; large, 253. 



Fortifications at Admiralty Is- 

 lands, 408; Fijian, 281; origin 

 of idea of, 306. 



Fossil, animals found in the deep- 

 sea, 509 ; wood at Kerguelen's 

 Land, 169. 



Fox, Gen. Lane, on bows and 

 arrows, 383 ; collection of, 390 ; 

 on devek pment of weapons, 404 ; 

 on savage decoration, 441. 



Fiaiicolimis, 125. 



Frigate bird, 10, 71, 301, 489. 



Fritz Muller on Ocypoda, 144. 



Frogs, noise made by, in Brazil, 81. 



Friitgilla Teydcana, 7. 



Fruit pigeon, 253, 262, 2S0, 413. 



Fuegian natives, 478. 



Fitciis vesictilosHs. 492. 



Fiilmanis glacialis, 1 79. 



Funchal, 34. 



Fungi, growing, washed by sea- 

 water, 393. 



Fttngia, 333 ; alternation of gene- 

 rations in, 454. 



Furnas, hot springs at, 31, 32. 



Fur Seal, 229, 538; eating pen- 

 guins, 164; killed, 163; pet, on 

 board the "Challenger,' 517- 



G. 



Galeoidcs polydadyltis, 5 1 . 

 Galeopithccus Philippcnsis, habits 



of, 350. 

 Gallinis at St. Jago Island, 50, 52. 

 Galinttla ucsioiis, 105. 

 Garfish, 46, 414. 

 Gauchos, Scotch, 481. 

 Gammarus, Anticns and Thcititslo, 



164. 

 "Gazelle," ship of war, sounding 



kv. I47._243- 



Gecko at St. Vincent, 44 ; at Tene- 

 RIFE, 6. 



Geese, wild, caught with the bolas, 

 484 ; shooting, 479. 



Genetta fclina, 131. 



Geology, of Bermuda, 16 ; of Blue 

 Mountains, 231 ; of Kerguelen's 

 Land, i6i, 169, 171, 142; of 

 Marion Island, 156; of Mbau 



Island, 272; of Raine Island, 



299 ; of St. Paul's Rocks, 65 ; 



of Tristan da Cunha, 109. 

 Geoplaiia, 242. 

 Geopclia, 305. 

 Gcnys, 496. 



Georyclnis capcrisis, 125. 

 Geyser, formation at the Azores, 



32. 

 Gilbert Islanders, 345. 

 Glaciers, at Heard Island, 188; 



descent of, 212. 

 Glacial epoch in Heard Island, 



193- . 



Glaciation in Kerguelen's Land 

 160, 162, 171. 



Glaciated stones dredged in deep 

 water, 506. 



Glanciis, 493. 



Gkichcnia dichotoma, 339, 452. 



Globigerina, 498. 



Gnat, wingless, 168, 485. 



Goats, wild, at Juan Fernandez, 

 470; wild, colour of, at St. Vin- 

 cent Island, 47 ; at Tristan da 

 Cunha, 107 ; feared by savages, 

 412. 



Goat, pet, on board the " Challen- 

 ger," 517. 



Gods, of Admiralty Islanders, 408 ; 

 of Hawaii, 436-443 ; Japanese, 

 419. 



Gonostomyxus, 281. 



GooDRiDGE, Charles, on King Pen- 

 guins, 154; nesting of albatross, 

 150; on the Sea-elephant, 198; 

 on tree trunks in the Crozets, 

 158. 



GouGH Island, plants of, 117. 



Gould, Mr., on birds from Booby 

 Island, 315 ; on eggs of Chioiiis, 

 182. 



Grampus, a, 219. 



Grand cural, 35. 



Grapsus strigusiis, habits of, 42, 51, 

 60, 72; climbing trees, 22. 



Green Mountain, St. Vincent 

 Island, 37. 



Grisebach, a., on diffusion of 

 plants by birds, 452 ; on Euca- 

 lypti and Acacias, 2.1() ; on vege ■ 

 tation, of Bermuda, 21 ; of the 

 Azores, 31. 



Ground Squirrel and owl in same 

 hole in China, 372. 



Grysbok, 129. 



