INDEX 



Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 46. 

 Aborigines banished from Van Die- 

 men's Land, 471. 



of Australia, 459-474. 



Abrolhos, 24. 



Absence of trees in Pampas, 56. 

 Aconcagua, volcano of, 269, 309. 

 Actinia, stinging species, 489. 

 Africa, Southern cart desert, yet 



supports large animals, 97. 

 Agouti, habits of, 81. 

 Ague common in Peru, 386. 

 Albemarle Island, 398. 

 Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 24. 

 on Holuthuriae, 490. 

 Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 384. 



stratified, in Andes, 334. 



Amblyrhynchus, 408, 418. 

 Anas, species of, 214. 

 Animalcule, see Infusoria. 

 Antarctic islands, 264. 

 Antipodes, 440. 



Ants at Keeling Island, 481. 



in Brazil, 45. 



Apires, or miners, 361. 

 Aplysia, 16. 

 Apple-trees 316. 

 Aptenodytes demersa, 214. 

 Areas_of alternate movements in the 



Pacific and Indian oceans, 506. 

 Armadilloes, habits of, 108. 

 , fossil animal allied to, 142, 



169. 



Arrow-heads, ancient, 377. 

 Ascension, 517. 

 Aspalax, blindness of, 62. 

 Athene, 81, 138. 

 Atolls, 491. 

 Attagis, 1 06. 



Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 131. 

 Audubon, M., on smelling-power of 



carrion hawks, 198. 

 Australja, 457. 

 Australian barrier, 498. 

 Azara on spiders, 46. 



on ram in La Plata, 57. 



on range of carrion-hawks, 69. 



on habits of carrion-hawks, 67. 



on a thunder-storm, 72. 



on ostrich-eggs, 103. 



on bows and arrows, 117. 



on new plants springing up, 



131- 



on great droughts, 145. 



on hydrophobia, 374. 



Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 



199. 



Bahia Blanca, 85-117. 

 Bahia, Brazil, 22. 



, scenery of, 520. 



Balbi on coral reefs, 495. 



Bald HeacL Australia, 474. 



Ballenar, Chile, 369. 



Banda Oriental, 155. 



Banks's Hill, 225. 



Barking-bird, 306. 



Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 



194. 



Bathurst, Australia, 466. 

 Bats, vampire, 32. 

 Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 441. 

 Beads', hill of, 162. 

 Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego. 



233- 



Beech-trees, 251, 298. 

 Beetles alive in sea, 172. 

 ' , dung-feeders, 516. 



at St. Julian, 184. 



in brackish water, 32. 



on a fungus, 41. 



Behring's Straits, fossils of, 145. 

 Bell of Quillota, 271. 

 Benchuca, 349. 



Berkeley Sound, 202. 



, Rev. J., on Conferva, 25. 



, on Cyttaria, 252. 



Bibron, M., 404, 409. 



Bien-te-veo, 65. 



Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 



401, 418. 



, tameness of, 422. 



Birgos latro, 488. 



Bizcacha, habits of, 81, 136. 



Blackwall, Mr., on Spiders, 175. 



Blindness of tucutuco, 62. 



Body, frozen, 100, 265. 



Bolabola, 494, 499. 



Bolas, manner of using, 55, 123. 



Bombs, volcanic, 520. 



Bones of the guanaco collected in 



certain spots, 181. 



, fire made of, 209. 



, fossil, i, 139, 142, 1 68, 1 86. 



, recent in Pampas, 146. 



Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 404. 

 Boulders, 201, 264. 

 Bramador, El, 382. 

 Brazil, great area of granite, 22. 

 Breaches in coral reefs, 502. 

 Breakwater of sea-weed, 256. 



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