364. 
Pied fantail, 270, 271 
Piedmont rainbelt, 327 
Pied shag, 268 
Pigs, 250, 274 
Pilling, Mr. H. C., Assistant Colonial 
Sec’y., Fiji, 7, 33, 36, 38, 53, 155 
Pilling, Mrs., 49 
Pineapples, 145 
Pinna, 203 
Piper methysticum, 148 
Piper sp., 136 
Pitons, 312 
Plains, 336 
Plantain, 110 
Plant hoppers, 279 
Plant lice, 279 
Pleistocene, 335 
Pleistocene Age, 332; fossils, 310 
Plenty, Bay of, 306 
Pliocene, 311, 313 
Plumularia catharina, 211 
Plunder, 189 
Pocillopora, 41, 55, 86, 158 
Podargus, 132 
Podocarpus, 286, 291 
Pohutukawas, 255 
Point Dorsett, 315 
Poisonous fish, experience with, 45; seeds, 
46 
Police, 337 
Police Station at Auckland, 181 
Polycheta, 80 
Polynesia, 120, 217 
Polynesians, 108, 115, 232 
Pomacentride or Demoiselles, 60 
Pomare, Hon. Sir M., 252, 295, 341 
Pomare, Lady, 295 
Porcupine fish, 201 
Porites, 55, 86, 158 
Porphyrio melanotus, 268 
Porpoises, 249 
Porrothele, antipodiana, 282 
Port Hills, near Lyttleton, 238, 240 
Port Nicholson, 315, 316, 336 
Pouakai Range, 313 ~ 
Pounamu or greenstone, 333 
Poverty Bay, 250 
Povey, Mr., 255, 302 
Precipitation on Mt. Egmont, 314 
Predaceous mammals, absence of in Fiji, 
133 
Pre-Maori, 217 
Preserved human heads, 184 
President of United States, 219 
Pressure ridges, 302 
Prince of Wales feather, 327 
Private cemetery, 341 
Private park, near Auckland, 289 
IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
Prohibition, 170, 179, 180; in America, 
226 
Prosthemadera nove-zealandiz, 270 
Psammocora, 87 
Psittaci, 269 
Pteroceros, 55, 74, 158 
Ptilotis procerior, 132 
Ptylosarcus, 83 
Pub, 326 
Puff fish, 47, 201 
Pukeko, 268 
Pulmonate, 205 
Pumpkins, 291 
Quarantine Station, 124, 130, 342 
Quarry, 302, 303 
Quarters, on Makuluva, 36, 37 
Queen street, 176, 177, 301 
Queenstown, 235 
Quelch, John J., 85 
Rakino Island, 28, 186, 188, 202, 
204, 205, 206, 208, 209 
Rainfall, in Fiji, 143, 299, 325 
Railways in New Zealand, 191, 192, 
317, 322, 334, 340 
Raised beaches, 317 
Rakiraki range, 166, 167 
Rangitoto Island, 184, 186, 209, 255, 
301, 302 
Rangitoto Volcano, 177 
Ransom, Dr. B. H., 130 
Rapa, 327 
Rabbits, 239, 255, 344 
Rarotonga, 111, 217, 246, 247, 249, 
341, 343 
Rate of ice flow, 330 
Rathbun, Dr. Mary J., 64, 202 
Ratu Popé, 7, 89, 91, 92, 93, 108, 109 
Ratu Sukuna, Fijian Oxford scholar, 49, 
111 
Rats, 133, 274 
Rawson, Senator Chas. A., 6 
Recreation on deck, 342 
Recruiting system or indenture, 118 
Red-billed gulls, 266 
Red Phalarope, 268 
Reef collecting, 42, 52, 189; corals, 210; 
costumes, 40; fauna, 209; fishes, 42, 
201 
Reefton, 321 
Remarkables, 334, 335 
Rennie, Miss, 123 
Residence district, Wellington, 315 
Resolution Island, 271 
Restaurants, 177, 261 
Rewa delta, 163 
Rewa River, 90, 97, 124, 152, 158 
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