INDEX 



Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 36 

 Aborigines banished from Van Diemen's 

 Land, 475 



of Australia, 430 to 458 

 Abrolhos Islands, 9, 14 

 Absence of trees in Pampas, 48 

 Aconcagua, volcano of, 269, 294, 312 

 Actinia, stinging species, 494 

 Africa, Southern part desert, yet sup- 

 ports large animals, 89 

 Ageronia feronia, 39 

 Agouti, habits of, 72 

 Ague common in Peru, 389 

 Albemarle Island, 401, 420 

 Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14 



on Holothuriae, 494 

 Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 367 



stratified, in Andes, 333 

 Amblyrhynchus, 401, 41 1 

 Anas, species of, 210 

 Animalculae. See Infusoria 

 Antarctic islands, 263 

 Antipodes, 444 

 Ants at Keeling Island, 485 



in Brazil, 36 

 Antuco volcano, 311 

 Apires, or miners, 364 

 Aplysia, 6, 493 

 Apple-trees, 318 

 Aptenodytes demersa, 209 

 Araucanian Indians, 66 

 Areas of alternate movements in the 



Pacific and Indian oceans, 480 

 Armadilloes, habits of, 100 



fossil animals allied to, 137, 164 

 Arqueros mines, 369 

 Arrow-heads, ancient, 109, 381 

 Ascension, 522, 538 

 Aspalax, blindness of, 53 

 Athene cunicularia, 73, 132 



Atolls, 490, 495 



Attagis, 98 



Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 124 



Audubon, M., on smelling -power of 



carrion-hawks, 195 

 Australia, 459 

 Australian barrier, 499 



group of weapons, 480 

 Ava (Macropiper methysticum), 428, 



436 

 Azara on spiders, 39 



on rain in La Plata, 49 



on habits of carrion-hawks, 58 



on range of carrion-hawks, 60 



on a thunder-storm, 65 



on ostrich -eggs, 95 



on bows and arrows, 1 10 



on new plants springing up, 125 



on great droughts, 142 



on hydrophobia, 378 



Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 195 

 Bahia Blanca, 50, 70, 77 to no 



fossil tooth of horse from, 138 

 Bahia, Brazil, II 



scenery of, 526 

 Bajada, 136 



Balbi on coral reefs, 499 

 Bald Head, Australia, 479 

 Ballenar, Chile, 373 

 Banda Oriental, 48, 152, 158, 186 

 Banks's Hill, 221 

 Barking-bird, 307 

 Barrier-reef, Bolabola, 498 



reefs, sections of, 500 

 Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 182 

 Bathurst, Australia, 470 

 Batrachian reptiles, lOi 

 Bats, vampire, 22, 23 

 Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 444 



