INDEX. 



51 I 



V alleys of New South Wales, 437 



Valparaiso, 252, 313 



Vampire bat, 22 



Vapour from forests, 24 



Van Diemen's Land, 446 



Vanellus Cay anus, 114 



Vanessa, flocks of, 158 



Vanikoro, 4G9, 471, 475 



Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, 

 489 



on opposite sides of Cor- 

 dillera, 326 



-, luxuriant, not necessary 



to support large animals, 85 

 Ventana, Sierra, 107 

 Verbena melindres, 40 

 Villa Vicencio, 331 

 Virgularia Patagonica, 99, 202 

 Volcanic bombs, 493 



islands, 8 



phenomena, 311 



Volcanos near Chiloe, 273, 275, 



310 



291, 



— , their presence determined 

 by elevation or subsidence, 480 

 Vulturaura, 58, 184, 284 



Waders, first colonists of distant is- 

 lands, 380 



Waimate, New Zealand, 421 



Walckenaer on spiders, 38 



Walleechu tree, 68 



Wasps preying on spiders and killed 

 by, 35—38 



Water-hog, 49 



Water, sold at Iquique, 362 



, fresh, floating on salt, 39, 



458 



Waterhouse, Mr., on Rodents, 49, 378 



on the Niata ox, 



146 



• on the insects of Ti- 



erra del Fuego, 238 



of Gala- 

 pagos, 381, 392 



Waves, caused by fall of ice, 224, 

 246 



from earthquakes, 305, 309 



Weather, connection with earth- 

 quakes, 351 



Weather-board, N. S. Wales, 437 



Weeds in New Zealand, imported, 

 392, 428 



Weight of large quadrupeds, 87 



Wellington, Mount, 448 



Wells, ebbing and flowing, 458 



at Iquique, 364 



West Indies, banks of, 439 



, coral reefs of, 472, 480 



, zoology of, 1 32 



Whales, oil from, 1 7 



leaping out of water, 223 



White, Mr., on spiders, 35 



Wigwams of Fuegians, 212 



Williams, Iiev., on infectious disor- 

 ders, 435 



Winds, dry, inTierra del Fuego, 231 



■ at the Cape Verds, 3 



, cold, on Cordillera, 360 



on Cordillera, 323 



Winter's Bark, 235, 281 



Wolf at the Falklands, 193 



Wood, Capt, on the Agouti, 70 



Woollya, 221 



Yaquil, 265 



Yeso, Valledel, 319 



York Minster, 208 



Zonotrichia, 52 



Zoological provinces of N. and S 



America, 131 

 Zoology of Galapagos, 377 



of Keeling Island, 456 



of Tierra del Fuego, 236 



of Chonos Islands, 287 



-- of St. Helena, 490 



Zoophytes, 99 



at Falkland Islands, 201 



Zorillc, or skunk, 80 



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