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INDEX. 



JAG 



Ja/Xuar said to possess the power of fas- 

 cination, 462 

 Jamaica, pimento of, 203 

 Jagiiarundi (Felis jaguarundi), 463 

 .Taranese mormolyce, 209 

 Java sparrow, or rice-bird (Loxia 

 oryzivora), 164 



— extent of the coflfee culture in, 181 



— the mormolyce of, 210 

 Jelly-fish of the tropics, 274 

 Jiboya, or boa constrictor, 301 

 Jigger of the West Indies (Pulex pene- 

 trans), 225 



Job, his description of Behemoth, 417 



Jriarteas, roots of the, 143 



Junghuhn, his explorations in Java, 



154 

 Jungle-fowl (Megapodius tumulus), 



mound-like nest of the, 373 

 Jurua river, a tributary of the Amazons, 



37 

 Jutay river, a tributary of the Amazons, 



37 



KAFFIRS, their acuteness, 519 

 Kalahari, causes of drought in the, 

 85, 86 



— abundance of vegetation in the, 86 



— singular and useful plants of the, 



87 



— Bushmen and Bakalahari of the, 

 88, 89 



Kalongs, or fox-bats, of Java, 491 

 Kangaroo, Australians hunting the, 



473, 474 

 Kaross, or skin dress of the deserts of 



South Africa, 92 

 l^eeling Island, method of catching 



turtles on, 329 

 Kengwe (Cubumis Gaffer), of the Kala- 

 hari, 87 

 Kilda, St., intrepidity of the natives of, 



270 

 Kingsmill Islands, perennial rainy 



season of the, 6 

 Klippspringer (Oreofragus saltatrix), 



411 

 Klipdachs, the, 382 

 Koodoo (A. Strepsiceros), of South 



Africa, 88, 411 

 Kordofan, baobab trees of, 103 



— delebl palms of, 158 



Kunthia montana, height at which it 

 will grow, 160 



— sent on rafts from Canton to Pekin, 

 for the Emperor, 173 



LAC, or gum-lac, 251 

 — insect, the, 251 



LOG 



Lamellicoms, tropical, 205 



Land-crabs, 272 



Land leeches of Ceylon, 228 



Lar, the, of Siam and Malacca, 503 



Lauricocha, mountain lake of, 36 



Leaf-like insects, 208, 209 



Lecaniun eoffege, or coccus of the coffee 



tree, 182 

 Leeches, land, of Ceylon, the plague of, 



228 

 Legiiminosas of tropical forests, 81 

 Lemur, slow-paced, 516 



— handed, 516 

 Leopard, the. 457 



— the hunting leopard, or cheetah, 

 458 



Leucopholis bimaculata, 207 

 Libellula lucretia, a South American 



dragon-fly, 267 

 Licli, the, a bird of the Puna, 28 

 Lion, not a noble animal, 448 



— his conflicts with travellers on Mount 



Atlas, 447 



— his fondness for the flesh of the 



Hottentot, 448 



— hunting, 449 



— different species of the, 453 



Litchi (Nephelium litchi), of China and 



Cochin China, 172 

 Lithophytes, or stone polyps, 275 

 Livingstone, Dr., his adventure with a 



lion, 450 

 Lizards of the Peruvian sand-coast, 35 



— their vast numbers in the tropics, 



310 



— the gecko, 311 



— the.anolis, 310, 312 



— chameleons, 313 



— iguanas, 314 



— guanas, 314 



— monitor-lizard. 315 

 ^ — water-lizards, 316 



— flying-dragons. 317, 318 



— the basihsk, 318 



— peculiar, of the Galapagos Islands, 

 321 



Llama, its use to the ancient Peruvians, 

 23 



— the only animal domesticated by the 



aboriginal Americans, 23 



— its similarity to the dromedary of 



the Old World, 23 

 Llanos, the, of Venezuela and New 

 Grenada, their extent, 1 1 



— their aspect in the dry season, 1 1 



— torpor of animal life in the, 13 



— and in the rainy season, 1 7 



— their appearance at the end of the 



rainy period, 1 8 

 Locust (Gryllus raigratorius), descrip- 

 tion of the, 231 



