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INDEX. 



Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 3.5 



Aborigines banished from Van Die- 

 men's Land, 447 



of Australia, 433 to 450 



Abrolhos, 14 



Absence of trees in Pampas, 46 



Aconcagua, volcano of, 253, 291 



Actinia, stinging species, 464 



Africa, Southern part desert, yet sup- 

 ports large animals, 85 



Agouti, habits of, 69 



Ague common in Peru, 365 



Albemarle Island, 376 



Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14 



on Holuthurise, 465 



Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 364 



, stratified, in Andes, 315 



Amblyrhynchus, 385, 394 



Alias, species of, 199 



Animalcule, see Infusoria 



Antarctic islands, 248 



Antipodes, 417 



Ants at Keeling island, 456 



in Brazil, 34 



Apires, or miners, 340 



Aplysia, 6 



Apple-trees, 297 



Aptenodytes demersa, 199 



Areas of alternate movements in the 

 Pacific and Indian oceans, 480 



Armadilloes, habits of, 95 



, fossil animals allied to, 



130, 155 



Arrow-heads, ancient, 105, 357 



Ascension, 491 



Aspalax, blindness of, 52 



Athene, 70, 125 



Atolls, 465 



Attagis, 94 



Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 118 



Audubon, M., on smelling-power of 

 carrion -hawks, 184 



Australia, 431 



Australian barrier, 474 



Azara on spiders, 36, 38 



on rain in I^a Plata, 47 



Azara on range of carrion-hawks, r.9 



on habits of carrion-hawks, 57 



on a thunder-storm, 61 



on ostrich-eggs, 9 1 



on bows and arrows, 105 



~ on new plants springing up, 



119 



on great droughts, 1 33 



on hydrophobia, 353 



Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 185 

 Bahia Blanca, 76 to 105 

 Bahia, Brazil, 11 



, scenery of, 495 



Balbi on coral reefs, 470 



Bald Head, Australia, 450 



Balleuar, Chile, 349 



Banda Oriental, 39, 142 



Banks's Hill, 210 



Barking-bird, 288 



Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 180 



Bathurst, Australia, 442 



Bats, vampire, 22 



Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 417 



Beads', hill of, 149 



Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 



217 

 Beech-trees, 235, 281 

 Beetles alive in sea, 159 



, dung-feeders, 490 



at St. Julian, 1 70 



in brackish water, 22 



on a fungus, 32 



Behring's Straits, fossils of, 132 

 Bell of Quillota, 255 

 Benchuca, 330 

 Berkeley Sound, 188 



, Rev. J., on Confervge, 14 



, on Cyttaria, 236 



Bibron, M., 381, 385 



Bien-te-veo, 54 



Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 



378, 394 

 Birds, tameness of, 398 

 Birgos latro, 462 

 Bizcacha, habits of, 70, 124 



