INDEX. 



Abbott, Mr., oil spiders, 33 



Aborigines banished from Van Die- 

 men's Land, 429 



of Australia, 410 to 432 



Abrolhos, 13 



Absence of trees in Pampas, 44 



Aconcagua, volcano of, 241, 279 



Actinia, stinging species, 445 



Africa, Southern part desert, yet 

 supports large animals, 80 



Agouti, habits of, 65 



Ague common in Peru, 350 



Albemarle Island, 3G1 



Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 13 



on Holuthuria), 44G 



Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 348 



, stratified, in Andes, 302 



Amblyrhynchus, 370, 379 



Anas, species of, 189 



Animalcule, see Infusoria 



Antartic islands, 23G 



Antipodes, 400 



Ants at Keeling Island, 438 



- in Brazil, 32 



Apires, or miners, 32fi 



Aplysia, G 



Apple-trees, 285 



Aptenodytes demersa, 189 



Areas of alternate movements in the 

 Pacific and Indian oceans, 4G1 



Armadilloes, habits of, 90 



, fossil animals allied to, 



123, 147 



Arrow-heads, ancient, 98, 342 



Ascension, 471 



Aspalax, blindness of, 49 



Athene, G6, 118 



Atolls, 447 



Attagis, 88 



At water, Mr., on the prairies, 112 



Audubon, M., on smelling-powcr of 



carrion-hawks, 175 

 Australia, 414 

 Australian barrier, 455 

 Azara on spiders, 34, 3G 



on rain in La Plata, 45 



on range of carrion-hawks, 55 



on habits of carrion-hawks, 51 



on a thunder-storm, 57 



on ostrich-eggs, 85 



on bows and arrows, 98 



on new plants springing up, 



112 



on great droughts, 125 

 on hydrophobia, 339 



Bachrnan, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 176 

 Bahia Blanca, 71 to 99 

 Bahia, Brazil, 11 



, scenery of, 475 



Balbi on coral reefs, 451 



Bald Head, Australia, 432 



Ballenar, Chile, 334 



Banda Oriental, 1 35 



Banks's Hill, 200 



Barking-bird, 27G 



Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 171 



Bathurst, Australia, 424 



Bats, vampiro, 21 



Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 400 



Beads', hill of, 142 



Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 



207 



Beech-trees, 224, 268 

 Beetles alive in sea, 151 

 , dung-feeders, 469 



