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INDEX 



Hindoos, their fondness for the banyan tree, 



107 

 Hippopotamus, the Behemoth of tlie Book of 

 Job, 432 



— its diminishing numbers, 433 



— " rogue hippopotami," or " bachelors," 



434 



— intelligence and memory of the hippo- 



potamus, 435 



— uses of its skin and teeth, 435 



— modes of scaring it away from the fields 



on the White Nile, 436 



— methods of killing it, 436 



— the specimen in the zoological gardens,438 

 Hippotigris, the, of the ancients, 430 



Hog, the chief enemy of the rattlesnake, 



316 

 Hogs, wild, of Peru, 40 

 Honduras, two rainy seasons of, 9 



— mahogany trees of, 113 



— turkey of (Meleagris ocellata), 376 

 Honey-ants of Mexico (Myrmecocy.stus 



Mexicanus), their singular habits, 281 

 Honey-eaters (Melithreptes), 375 

 Hornbill, red-beaked, 385, 386 



— large, of Malabar, 386 



— rhinoceros (Buceros rhinoceros), 374 

 Horses, their amphibious life during the 



rainy season in the savannahs, 19 



— their enemies in all parts of the world, 



19, 20 



— effects of the rarefaction of the air on 



horses in the high table-lands of Pern 

 and Bolivia, 24 

 Hottentots, fondness of the lion for the flesh 



of, 468 

 House-ants in the river Amazon, 277 

 Huallaga river, a tributary of the Amazons, 



45 

 Huanacu, the, of Peru, 28 

 Humboldt, M. von, on tropical vegetation, 1 02 

 Humming-birds, 361 



their wide range over the New 



World, 3G2 



their habits, 362 



their courage, 363 



their enemies, 363 



impossibility of bringing them alive 



to England, 363 

 mode of catching them, 364 



— — various species, 364 



Hunger, how long a man can withstand, 



38 

 Huniman, the (Semnopithecus entellus), 



525 

 Hyaena, the, 483 



— hunting, 484 



— varieties of the, 484 

 Hyaenas of the Saiiura, 75 

 Hydrocanthari, comparative numbers of, in 



the tropical and temperate zones, 266 

 Hyla crepitans, 338 



— micans, 338 



INS 

 Hyphaene coriacea, southern limits of the, 



151 

 Hyphajne Thebaica, or doum palm, 144 



IBIS, the, of the Puna, 33 

 — of America, 372 



— of Egypt, 372 

 Ibo, palm oil of, 147 



r9a river, a tributary of the Amazons, 45 



Icebergs, wanderings of, 302 



Ichneumon, or mongoos, his destruction of 



venomous serpents, 322, 355 

 Icterus Baltimore, 367 



— xanthornus, 383 

 Iguana tuberculata, 352 



Iguanas of the Peruvian sand-coast, 41 

 Inca beetles of South America, 267 

 India, teak forests of, 111 



— bamboos of, 114 



— cultivation of cotton in, present and pro- 



spective, 211 



— hopes from the railways in progress, 212 



— irrigation in India in ancient times, 212 



— the indigo trade of, 237 



— comparative rareness of venomous snakes 



in, 311 

 India-rubber tree (Ficus elastica), singular 



formation of the roots of the, 125. See 



Caoutchouc tree. 

 Indian Ocean, north-east monsoon of the, 9 



violence of the storms of the, 1 1 



Indies, West, annual fall of rain in the, 6 



insect plagues of, 250 



turtles of the, 347 



Indigo plant (Indigofera tinctoria), Bengal- 

 ese cutting the plant, 234 



mode of cultivation, 235 



and of preparing the colour, 236 



— - — the indigo trade of the East Indies , 



237 

 Indri, the, of Madagascar, 529 

 Inga, the, of the banks of the rivers of 



Guiana, 82 

 Insects of the Sikkim mountains, 93 



— their aversion for sandal wood, 112 



— of the tropical world, 245 



- insect plagues, 245 



— the universal dominion of, 245 



— mosquitoes, 246 



— the (Estrus hominis, 247 



— the chegoe or jigger, 248 



- Filaria medinen.sis, 249 



- the bete rouge, 250 



— blood-sucking ticks, 250 



— land-leeches of Ceylon. 251 



— the tsetse-fly, 252, 260 



— the Soudan fly, 254 



— the locust, 254 



— the cucharaciia and chilicabra cock- 



roaches of Peru, 258 



— tropical insects direit'y useful toman,259 



— silk-worms, 259 



