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INDEX 



TER 



Terines Inclfuga of France, 283 



— viarum, or marching white ants, 285 

 Testuiio Iiulica, elephantina, 339 



its habitat and habits, 340 



Texas, intluence of the heated plains of, in 



deflecting the trade-winds, 10 



— the maize harvest of, 163 

 Textor erythrorhynchus, 442 

 'i'heridion, its maternal instincts, 295 

 Thierry de MeronviUe, his attempts to 



introduce cochineal into San Domingo, 



261 

 Thirst, how long a man can withstand, 38 

 Thorinsia, maternal instincts of the, 295 

 Thorns and spines of tropical plants, 126 

 Thrasaiitus harpya, 392 

 Tibbo tribe of tlie Great Sahara, 71 

 Ticks, the blood-sucking, of the tropical 

 regions, 250 



— the garapata (Ixodes sanguisuga), 250 

 Tierra caliente, the, of Mexico, 87 



— templada, 88 



— fria, 89 



Tiger, the time for his bloodthirsty excur- 

 sions, 476 



— his chief seats, 477 



— tiger-hunting, 477 



— destroyed by the gavial of .the ganges, 



351 



— his mode of attack, 481 



— his destruction of the tortoise, 481 

 Tiger-cat, or margay, 491 

 Tillandsias of the tropical forests, 123 

 Timber, valuable, of the teak or Indian oak, 



110 



— of the Saul tree (Shorea robusta), 111 



— of the satinwood tree of Ceylon, 111 

 Titicaca, Lake, cacti of the, 120 



— maize of the islands of, 163 



Tlaouili, a gigantic kind of ]\Iexican maize, 



163 

 Toads of the tropics, 337 



— the Pipa Surinamensis, 337 



— the Bahia toad, 337 



— the giant toad, 338 



— the musical toad of Guinea, 338 

 Tocan tines river, 47 



Toddalia aculeata, thorns of the, 126 

 Toddy- bird of Ceylon (Artamus fuscus), 



138 

 Toddy made from the Mauritia palm, 21 



— extracted from the cocoa-nut tree, 131 



— and from the palmyra palm, 138 



— and from the date-palm, 143 



Tufoa, mutiny of the *' Bounty " at the 



island of, 169 

 Tornados, 1 1 



Tortoi.se-oil, manufacture of, 342 

 Tortoises of the tropics, 339 



— the gigantic land -tortoise, 339 



— Mr. Darwin's ride on one, 342 



— tortoises not indigenous in Australia, 



342 



TUR 

 Tortoises, marsh, of America and the 

 Indian Arcliipelago, 342 



— river, 343 



— attacked by wild dogs and tigers, 



481 

 Toropishu bird (Cephalopterus ornatus), 



369 

 Touat, oases of the, annual pilgrimage from 



the, 69 

 Toucans (Ramphastidse), 360 



— their quarrelsome habits, 360 

 Tozer, date-palms of the oasis of, 143 

 Trade-winds, the, 4, 6 



— their limits in the Northern Atlantic, 6 

 7- and in the Pacific, 6 



— moisture carried by them from the 



coldest to the warmer regions, 7 



— deflections from the ordinaiy course of 



the trade- winds, 10 

 Trap-door spiders, 294, 297 

 Traveller- tree of Madagascar (Ravenala 



speciosa), 175 

 Tridacna, the colossal, 308 

 Trigonocephalus, fatal effect of the bite of 



the, 313 

 Trincomalee, forests of satinwood at. 111 

 Tripe de roche of the Sikkim heights, 92 

 Trochilus minimus, the smallest of the 



humming-birds, 364 

 Troglodytes audax of Peru, 258 



— leucophrys, 370 



Troopials (Icterus, Xanthornus) of Guiana, 

 367 



— the variegated troopial, 367 

 Troughton, ]\lr., his use of spiders' threads 



for micrometers, 299 

 Trunk-fish, the, 307 

 Tryothorus plateus, 383 

 Tsalt-salya, or ziinb, of Abyssinia, 253 

 Tsetse'-fly of South Africa (Glostitaus mosi- 

 tans), 252, 260 



— its destruction to cattle and horses, 252, 



253 



— range of its pestiferous influence, 253 

 Tuaryk tribe of the Sahara, 71 



— chieftain of the, 77 

 Tunguragua river, 44 



Tunqui bird (Rupicola Peruviana), 369 

 Tunuhy, the Sierra, 45 

 Tupinambaranas, Island of, 46 

 Turmeric or Indian saffron, 242 

 Turkey of Honduras (Meleagris ocellata), 

 376 



— the brush, or talegalla, 380 

 Turkey-buzzards, 390 

 Turtles of the tropics, 344 



— colossal, of the Brazilian coast, 344 



— foes of the turtle tribe, 345 



— of the island of Asceubion, 345 



— mode of taking them at Ascension, the 



Bahamas, and at Keeling Island, 

 346 



— and at Mozambique, 347 



