INDEX 



ALBINISM, Herman Melville on, 

 112; why we are unpleasant- 

 ly affected by, 112, 113. 



Animism, Dr. Tylor on, 116. 



Anumbius acuticaudatus, nest- 

 building habits of, 10. 



Apple Country, 105. 



Armadilloes, 11, 13; bones of, 

 37; defective sight of, 177. 



Arrow-heads, Paleolithic and 

 Neolithic, 38 ; highly-fin- 

 ished, 39. 



Asturina pucherani, a white- 

 eyed hawk, 180. 



Azara, Felix de, on song birds 

 in Paraguay, 152, 155. 



BACON, on embroidery, 51. 



Bain, on duration of sense-im- 

 pressions, 236, 239, 242. 



Bates, on bird music in South 

 America, 148; on Cypho- 

 rhinus cantans, 154. 



Bird music, in Patagonia, 141; 

 in South America, 141-157; 

 difficult to describe, 142-145; 

 aerial character of, 146-152. 



Birds, song, number of species 

 in South America, 150. 



Blackbird, Argentine (Turdus 

 fuscater), 150. 



Brazilians, attack on El Car- 

 men by, 91-95. 



Broca, Dr. Paul, classification 

 of eyes, 190-191. 



Bubo magellanicus, see Owl. 



Buffon, a fancy of, 42; on 

 American song birds, 151. 



Burroughs, Mr. John, on Brit- 

 ish and American song birds, 

 147. 



Buteo erythronotus, conspicu- 



ousness of, 207. 

 Buzzard, white-breasted, 207. 



CACHALOTE, 10. 



Cacti, fruit of, 47. 



Calandria mocking-bird (Mi- 

 mus modulator), song of, 

 141-143. 



Calodromus elegans, voice and 

 habits of, 129-131. 



Carancho, 169. 



Carmen de Patagones, 20; at- 

 tacked by a Brazilian force, 

 91-98. 



Carrion-hawk (Milvago chi- 

 mango), 25. 



Carter, Dr. Brudenell, on weak 

 sight in civilized man, 

 176. 



Cathartes atratus, 49. 



Cavia australis, bones of, 37. 



Chanar tree, 15; fruit of, 47; 

 flowers of, 48. 



Chi-chi, 103. 



Children in Patagonia, 45. 



Chloephaga magellanica, 77. 



Chrysomitris magellanica, see 

 Siskin. 



Colley-dog, character of, 57, 58. 



Columba maculosa, depreda- 

 tions of, 77; song, 121. 



Condalia spinosa, fruit of, 47. 



Condor, 53. 



Conspicuousness, effects of, 113. 



Coots, wheat destroyed by, 76. 



Courage, instinct of, 211-213. 



Cow and pigs, friendship be- 

 tween, 54, 55. 



Coypu (Myiopotamus coypu), 

 bones of, 37. 



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