IJfDEX. 



655 



TER 



Termes destructor arborum, their dwell- 

 ings in trees, 242 

 Texas, influence of the heated plains of, 



in deflecting the trade-winds, 8 

 Thierry de Meronville, his attempts to 



introduce cochineal into San Domingo, 



251 

 Tierra caliente, the, of Mexico, 80 



— templada, 81 



— fria, 82 



Tiger, the time for his bloodthirsty ex- 

 cursions, 453 



— his chief seats, 453 



— tiger-hunting, 453, 455 



— his companionship with the peacock, 



454 



— destroyed by the gavialof the Granges, 



333 



— his mode of attack, 455 



— his destruction of the tortoise, 457 



— beetle of South Africa, 205 

 Toads of the tropics, 310 



— the Pi pa Surinamensis, 818 



— the Bahia toad, 319 



— the Surinam toad, 318 



— the giant toad, 320 • 



— the musical toad of Guinea, 320 

 Toddy-bird of Ceylon ( Artamus fuscus), 



]52, 367 

 Toddy made from the cocoa-nut palm, 

 148 



— and from the palmyra palm, 152 



— and from the date palm, 1 55 

 Tomependa, rafts on the Amazons 



river first appear at, 36 

 Tornados, 9 



Toropishu (Cephalopterus ornatus), 355 

 Tortoises of the tropics, 321 



— the gigantic land-tortoise (Testudo 



indica, elephantina), 321 



— their fondness for water, 322 



— their locomotion, 323 



— Mr. Darwin's ride on one, 324 



— tortoises not indigenous in Australia, 



324 



— marsh (Emydae), of America and the 



Indian Archipelago, 324 



— river, 325 



— attacked by wild dogs and tigers, 457 

 Toucans (Ramphastidae), 345, 346 



— their quarrelsome habits, 345 



— their nests, 129 



— anecdote of the arrogance of one, 345 

 Trade -winds, the, 4, 5 



— their limits in the Northern Atlan- 



tic, 4 



and in the Pacific, 4 



Trap-door spiders, 215 



Traveller tree of Madagascar (Ravenala 



speciosa), uses of the, 169 

 Tree-snakes, 293 



VAN 



Troglodytes audax of Peru, 234 

 Troopials (Icterus Xanthomus) of 

 Guiana, 352 



— the variegated tropical (Oriolus 



varius), 352 

 Trunk-fish, the, 272 

 Tsalt-salya, or zimb, of Abyssinia, 230 

 Tsetse-fly of South Africa (Giossina 



^morsitans), 229 



— its destruction to cattle and horses, 



229, 230 



— range of its pestiferous influence, 229 



— action of the poison, 230 

 Tucanos, tattooing of the, 74 

 Tunguragua river, 36 



Tunqui bird (Rupieola Peruviana), 355 

 Tunuhy, the Sierra, rise of the Rio 



Negro in, 37 

 Tupinambaranas, Island of, 37 

 Tumeric or Indian saifron, 242 

 Turkey of Honduras (Meleagrisocellata), 

 360 



— the brush or tallegalla, 372 

 Turkey-buzzards, 378 

 Turtles of the tropics, 326 



— colossal, of the Brazilian coast, 326 



— foes of the turtle tribe, 327 



— of the island of Ascension, 328 



— mode of taking them at Ascension, 



the Bahamas, and at Keeling 

 Island, 328, 329 



— green turtle, 329 



— barbarous treatment of, at Feejee 



and Ceylon, 329, 330 



— food of, 331 



Tusseh-worm (Bombyx mylitta), silk 

 filaments of the, 249 



UALAN, island of, singular roots of 

 the Lum tree on the, 143 



Uaupes Indians, 73 



their tattooing, 74 



Ucayale river, a tributary of the Ama- 

 zons, 37 



Unaus, the, 496 



Uran or Mias, or wild man of the 

 woods, 502 



— how they are caught by Dyaks, 503 



Urari, or wourali, poison, 67, 68 



Urceola elastica, caoutchouc of the, 191 



Uropeltis Philippinus, 292 



Ursus malayanus, its fondness for 

 cocoa-nuts, 149 



Utah, influence of the heated plains of, 

 in deflecting the trade-winds, 8 



TTAMPIRES, 492 



V Vanilla (Vanilla aromatica), 

 growth and uses of, 184 



