INDEX. 



Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 47. 

 Aborigines banished from Van 



Diemen's Land, 439. 



of Australia, 427, 441. 



Abrolhos, 27. 



Aconcagua, volcano of, 253, 



290. 

 Actinia, stinging species, 456. 

 Africa, Southern part desert, 



yet supports large animals, 



97- 

 Agouti, habits of, 79. 

 Ague common in Peru, 362. 

 Albemarle Island, 372. 

 Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 27. 



on Holuthurlaj, 457. 



Amblyrhynchus, 380, 382, 384. 

 Anas, species of, 203. 

 Animalculae, see Infusoria. 

 Antarctic islands, 249. 

 Antipodes, 410. 

 Ants at Keeling Island, 448. 



in Brazil, 46. 



Apires, or miners, 338. 

 Aplysia, 20. 

 Apple-trees, 296. 

 Aptenodytes demersa, 202. 

 Armadilloes, habits of, 104. 

 fossiUanimals allied to, 



136, 160. 

 Arrow-heads, ancient, 113. 

 Ascension, 482. 

 Aspalax, blindness of, 62. 

 Athene, 80, 131. 

 Atolls, 457. 

 Attagis, 103. 

 Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 



125. 



Audubon 



power 



188. 



Australia, 424. 

 Australian barrier, 465. 

 Azara on spiders, 47, 49. 

 on rain in La Plata 



M., on smelling 

 of carrion-hawkgi 



57. 



of carrion- 



of 



on range 



hawks, 69. 

 on habits 



hawks, 67. 



on a thunderstorm, 72. 



on ostrich eggs, 100. 



on bows and arrows, 



on new plants spnngmg 



up, 125. 



on great droughts, 139. 



on hydrophobia, 350. 



Bachman, Mr., on carrion- 

 hawks, 189. 



Bahia Blanca, 85-108. 



Bahia, Brazil, 24. 



scenery of, 485. 



Balbi on coral reefs, 461. 



Bald Head, Australia, 442. 



Ballenar, Chile, 346. 



Banda Oriental, 53, 147. 



Bank's Hill, 213. 



Barking-bird, 287. 



Basaltic platform of Santa 

 Cruz, 184. 



Bathurst, Australia, 425. 



Bats, vampire, 34. 



Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 

 411. 



Beads, hill of, 154. 



