370 



INDEX. 



Collecting, pleasures of, 271 in 

 Jamaica, 272 in Brazil, 274 

 in Arm, 278. 



Condor, 119. 



Coral formations, 89. 



Crocodile, 262. 



Crusting, 207. 



Cuttle, assault of, 235. 



Cypress, large, 136. 



Cypress swamp, 228. 



DARTER, 215. 

 Depths, life at, 64, 292. 

 Desert, life in, 68. 

 Devil-bird, 230. 



Diatoms, forms of, 96, 154 influ- 

 ence of, 96 increase of, 155. 

 Dogs, wild, 238. 

 Dragon-tree, 133. 

 Duck, summer, 199. 



EAGLE, Washington's, 184 jealousy 



of, 198. 



Egg of salpina, 167. 

 Elephant in Africa, 56 height of, 



117 rage of, 247. 

 Elevations, insects of, 87. 

 Enaliosauri, existing, 361. 



FAUNA, blind, 76. 



Fawn, Gemze", 210. 



Fern-owls, 186. 



Ferns, tree, 178. 



Fire-flies, 34. 



Fishes in boiling water, 75 in bed, 



87 in parlour, 88. 

 Flies, plagues of, 110. 

 Flints, origin of, 100. 

 floscularia, 163. 



Flowers, spring, 6. 



Forest, leafing of, 7 coloui-s of, 10 

 in Brazil, 59, 179 planted by 

 birds, 103 in Jamaica, 177. 



Frost, effects of, 3. 



GANGES, source of, 55. 

 Gazelle, 39. 

 Golubacser fly, 111. 

 Gorilla, 257. 

 Grebes, 114. 

 Guacharo, 76, 232. 

 Guanaco, 49. 

 Gum-trees, large, 138. 



HANNO, voyage of, 257. 

 Heliconia, 175. 

 Hot springs, life in, 75. 

 Hyena in Palmyra, 41. 



ICE, trees in, 68. 



Iguana, case of, 361. 



Infusoria, 159. 



Insects, destructive, 105 water, 15 

 luminous, 34 brine, 73 at 

 sea, 84 at great heights, 87. 



Invisible, the, 153. 



Islands, coral, 90. 



JACKAL, shriek of, 237. 

 Jamaica, morning in, 16 forest in, 

 177 collecting in, 272. 



KANGAROO, combat with, 254. 



LAGOONS, 93. 

 Lammergeyer, 45. 

 Leafing of trees, 7. 

 Lion at midnight, 57. 



