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INDEX 



RAINBOW, a brilliant, 50-53. 

 Realejo, song of, 154. 

 Red-billed finch (Embernagra 



platensis), 25. 

 Resemblance of inferior ani- 



mals to man, 27. 

 Resemblances, imitative and 



protective in nature, 172-173. 

 Retriever, character of the, 59, 



60; account of a, 61-71. 

 Revolver accident, 22. 

 Rhea, bones of, 38; a white, 



120. 

 Rhinocrypta lanceolata, amus- 



ing habits of, 127. 

 Rio Negro, first sight of, 16; 



color of, 35; valley of the, 



35, 36; psychological effect 



of the, 42-46, 48; extraordi- 



nary sunset effect on, 52. 



HUMBOLDTIANA, 48. 



Scandalous, plant named, 137. 

 Shark, white, fear inspired by, 



113. 

 Sight in savage and civilized 



men, 158-178. 

 Simson, Mr., on the flute-bird 



of Ecuador, 153. 

 Siskin, black-headed ( Chryso- 



mitris icterica), 122, 235. 

 Snakes, hard to detect, 170; 



defective sight of, 177. 

 Snow, at El Carmen, 108; 



whiteness of, and effect on 



the mind, 114-118. 

 Song-s p a r r o w ( Zonotrichia 



canicapilla), 25. 

 Sosa the Scout, anecdote of, 95. 

 Soul Shapes, treatise on, 159. 

 South American Missionary 



Society, 29. 

 Spencer, Herbert, on adaptive- 



ness of organs, 175. 

 Swallow, white-rumped (Tachy- 



cineta leucorrhoa), morning 



song of, 25, 29; purple, 31; 



migration of, 32. 



Swan, black-necked, 17. 

 Synallaxis, 9. 



JACHYCINETA LEUCORBHOA, see 

 Swallow, white-rumped. 



Tanagers, 150. 



Thoreau, instinctive impulses 

 in, 221; on the robin's song, 

 223; feeling for nature in, 

 215 



Thorn-bird, habits of, 10. 



Thurn, Mr. im, on paucity of 

 bird music in British Gui- 

 ana, 148. 



Tinamous, eggs of, 46; lan- 

 guage and habits of, 129- 

 130; seen on the uplands, 

 205. 



Trapalanda, legend of, 5, 202. 



Traru, 169. 



Troglodytes furvus, Azara on 

 song of, 152. 



Troupials, number of species, 

 150. 



Trupialis militaris, see Mili- 

 tary starling. 



Tuco-tuco, 37. 



Turdus fuscater, see Blackbird, 

 Argentine. 



Tylor, Dr., on animism, 116. 



UPLAND GEESE, 51; shooting, 



67; depredations of, 81. 

 Upucerthia dumetoria, 9. 



VIGNOLI, DR. DE, on the mythi- 

 cal faculty, 117. 

 Vizcacha, bones of, 37. 

 Vulture, black, 49. 



WALLACE, DB. A. R., on bird 

 music in the tropics, 155; 

 on human instincts, 223; pe- 

 culiar theory of, 204. 



Waterton, on bare feet, 198. 



Whale, The, Melville's romance, 

 109. 



Whiteness, the quality of, 108- 



