550 



INDEX 



FEE 



Feejee Islands, barbarous mode of treating 

 turtles in the, 347 



visit from a crocodile to the, 357 



sandal tree of, 112 



Felidae of Peru, 40 



— of the tropical forests, 84 



— of the Old World, 466 



— of the New World, 486 

 Felis dogaster, 491 



— jaguarundi, 491 



— pardalis, 491 



Ferns, arborescent, of tropical forests, 80, 



123 

 Fie us elastica, singular formation of the 

 roots of the, 125 



caoutchouc of the, 217, 220 



— • indica, astonishing size of the, 107 



— religiosa, of India, 108 



— sycomorus, of Africa, 105 



Fig, the Indian, the fruit of the melocacti, 



119 

 Fig trees, climbing, of Polanarrua, 122 



marriage of the fig tree and palm, 123 



Filaria medinensis, or Guinea worm, 249 



its mode of working, 249 



method of extracting it, 249, 250 



Fir, the silver (Abies Webbiana), of the 



slopes of Sikkim, 90 

 Fire-ant, the black, of Guiana, 274 

 Fishes, tropical, 306 

 Fishing-eagle of Africa (Haliastus vocifer), 



395 

 Flamingo (Phcenicopterus ruber), 371 



— its habits, 371 



— its nests, 37 1 



— the rose-coloured (P. antiquorum), 



371 



— of the Puna, 33 



Flowers of the primitive forest of tropical 

 America, 81 



Flute-bird (Cyphorinus cantans), 371 



Fly-catcher, crowned (Myoarchus coronatus), 

 of the Peruvian sand-coast, 41 



Flying-fishes (Exocoetus volitans, Pterois 

 volitans), 306 



Foa, one of the Tonga Islands, steam cocoa- 

 nut oil-mill on, 130 



Fon-wind of the Alps," origin of the, 73 



Forbes, Mr., his narrow escape from a 

 cobra di capello, 318 



Forests inundated by the Amazons river, 

 48 



Forest, primitive tropical, 78 



— its peculiar cliarms and terrors, 78 



— troubles of the botanist in the, 79 



— endless varieties of trees in tropical 



forests, 79 



— and of their sites, 80 



— lowland forests during the rainy sea- 



son, 81 



— a hurricane in, 81 



— beauty of the forests after the rainy 



season, 82 



GIR 



Forests, birds of the tropical, 82, 83 



— morning, noon, and night, in the forests, 



83-85 



— the sylvan wonders of Sikkim, 89 

 Formica analis and saccharivora, ravages of 



the, in sugar plantations, 276 



— rubescens, 279 



— sanguinea, 280 



Fox (Canis azarae), the, of the high table- 

 lands of Peru and Bolivia, 33 



— of the Peruvian sand-coast, 40 

 Foxes, flying, 505, 507 



France, cotton manufacture of, 209 



— number of beetles found in, 265 

 Frigate-bird, 3U3 



— — its mode of operation, 304 



Frog, the Brazilian and Surinam tree, 338 

 Frog-fish, the, 307 

 Frog-hoppers (Cicadas), edible, 263 

 Fruit trees of the tropics, 1 79 



— — the chirimoya of Peru, 179 



— — the litchi, 180 



the mangosteen, 180 



the mango, 181 



Fulgora lanteruaria, 271 



Fulica gigantea of tropical America, 33 

 Fustic, from what obtained, 242 



n AD-FLY of South America ((Estrus 

 1 7 hominis), ulcers produced by the, 247 

 Galapagos, or Tortoise Islands, 339 



— singular animal and vegetable life of 



the, 339 

 Galagos, the, 530 

 Galeodes vorax, its fatal bite, 301 

 Galeopitheci, the, 512 

 Gallinazos, or turkey-buzzards, 390 

 Garapata (Ixodes sanguisuga), a kind of 



tick, 250 

 Garua, or drizzling mists, of the Peruvian 



sand-coasts, 39 

 Gasteracantha arcuata, 292 

 Gavials of the Ganges, 351 



— their attack of the tiger, 351 

 Gazelle, chase of the^ in the Sahara, 75 

 Gecko, the, 328 



— its usefulness to man, 329 



— anatomy of its feet, 3*29 



— different species of, 329 



Geese, wild, of the heights of the Sikkim 



mountains, 92 

 Genialcdie, the mufti of Aden, introduces the 



use of coffee to the dervises of Aden, 189 

 Gemsbucks of South Africa, 65 

 Geography, physical, of the tropics, 3 

 Germany, cotton manufacture of, 209 

 Gibbon, the, 521 

 Gibraltar, monkeys of, 527 

 Gilolo, island of, birds of paradise of, 378 

 Ginger, its commercial importance, 233 



— its growth and cultivation, 233 

 Giraffe, or camelopard, its beauty, 423 



