INDEX 



557 



MUS 

 Musa sapientam, 173 



— textilis, 175 

 Muslirooms, enormous, 50 



Muslin, antiquity of the manufacture of, in 

 Hindostan, 208 



Musk-deer on the slopes of the Sikkim moun- 

 tains, 92 



Mycetes ursinus, 535 



Mygales, or trap-door spiders, 284 



Mylodon, the, 496 



Myrmecocystus Mexicanus, 281 



Myrinecophagi of America, 500 



Myrmica erythrothorax, 280 



— paleata, 280 

 Myrtus pimenta, 233 



Mzab, tlie Beni, and the inundation from 

 the Atlas, 70 



NADLER, Mr., his India-rubber manu- 

 factures, 218 

 Naja Haje of Egypt, 319 

 Namaqua country, reason why droughts are 



prevalent in the, 62 

 Napo river, 57 

 Naras, a fruit of the west coast of Africa, 



G3 

 Nefta, date-palms of the oasis of, 1 43 

 Negro, Rio, meaning of its name, 45 



a tributary of the Amazons, 46 



Negroes, great mortality of, in cultivating 



rice in South Carolina, 158 

 Nelumbias of the tropics, 123 

 Nepenthes, the, of the East Indian forests, 



15 

 Nests of Australian birds, 378-381 



— of the Baltimore bird, 367 



— of the baya of Hindostan, 383 



— of the bower-bird of Australia, 378, 



379 



— of the cassique, 368 



— of the flamingo, 371 



— of the grosbeak, 384 



— of the humming-birds, 362 



— of the korwe, 385 



— of the lyre-bird, 377 



— of the talegalla, or brush-turkey, 380 



— of the variegated troopial, 367 



Neu Wied, the Prince of, anecdote of, 313 



Nicaragua wood, 241 



Night in the tropical forests, 84 



Nile, palm trees of the banks of the, 144 



Nipa fruticans, 98 



Noddy bird (Sterna stolida), its attacks on 



the cocoa-nut tree, 134 

 Noon in the tropical forest, 82 

 Nopal (Cactus opuntia), the, of the shores 

 of the Mediterranean, 119 



— (Cactus cochinellifer), 261 



Nowaja Semlja warmed by the Gulf Stream, 



5 

 nearly total absence of insect life at, 



2G5 



GST 



Nubia, date-palms of, 144 



Nutmegs, cultivation of, confined by the 



Dutch to Banda, Lonthoir, and Pulo 



Aij, 228 



— their present extended range, 229 



— description of the tree, 229 



— mode of cultivation, 230 



— nutmeg oils, 230 



Nyctopitheci, or nocturnal monkeys, 537 

 Nycteribia, the, 511 

 Nylghau, the, 475, 476 

 Nymphseas of the tropics, 123 



OAK, Indian, or teak tree (Tectona 

 grandis), 110 

 Oases of the Sahara, character of the, 70 



tribes inhabiting the, 71 



Ohydos, Strait of, 46 



Ocelot (Felis pardalis), the, 491 



ffinocarpus disticha, oil of the, 149 



(Estrus hominis, 247 



Oil made from cotton seed, 214 



— cocoa-nut, 130 



— essential, of cloves, 229 



— palm trees of West Africa, 144 



— of cinnamon bark, 227 



— of the Corozo palm, 149 



— of the (Enocarpus disticha, 149 



Olas, or strips of talipot paper of Ceylon, 



140 

 Opossum of the tropical forests, 84 



— on the sand-coast of Peru, 40 

 Opuntias, the, 118 



Orange trees in the Azores destroyed by a 



plant bug, 260 

 Orchids, flowering, of tropical forests, 80 



— of the slopes of Sikkim, 90, 91 



— of tropical forests, 123 



Orellana, Francis, his voyage on the 



Amazons, 56 

 Oreodoxa oleracea, 148 



— regia, 150 



Organist bird (Troglodytes leucophrys), 



370 

 Oricou, or sociable vulture (Vultur auricu- 



laris), 393 

 Orinoco river, 56, 78 



manufacture of tortoise-oil on the 



banks of the, 343 

 Oriolus varius, 367 

 Orotava, in Teneriffe, gigantic dragon tree 



near, 105 

 Orycteropi, the, 500 

 Oi-yctes nasicornis, 266 

 Oryza sativa, 1 52, et seq. 

 Oscollo (Felis dogaster), the, 491 

 Ostrich, its endurance of thirst, 75 



— its favourite haunts, 76 



— the American, his attacks on snakes, 



321 



— swiftness of the ostrich of the Old World, 



397 



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