INDEX 



315 



Bezanozano tribe, 68 



Bird life, 63 



Bird life, scant, 279 



Birds, extinct gigantic, 213 



Birds : parakeets, green pigeons, car- 

 dinal-birds, sun-birds, 32 ; crows, 

 34 ; egret, 34 ; ducks and geese, 

 38 ; storks, herons, 69 ; rapacious, 

 82 ; egret, 105 ; crow, 105 ; king- 

 fisher, 105 ; song, 137 ; sun-birds, 

 137 ; rollers, 138 ; shrike, parrot, 

 warbler, cuckoo, wood-pigeon, 

 hawks, 138 ; goat-sucker, 140 ; 

 owls, 140 ; weaver-bird, 169 ; bee- 

 eater, 170 ; birds on Lake Itasy, 

 210; parrots, 233 ; Prevost's broad- 

 bill, 281 ; black parrots, 291 ; bee- 

 eater, 291 ; fork-tailed shrike, 294 ; 

 fly-catcher, 293 



Blow-pipe, native, 61 



Boa, a, 44 



Botanising in Madagascar, 128 



" Bound-by-blood " ceremony, 235 



Brehmia spinosa, 42 



Bridges, 187, 194, 234, 238 



Buddleia madagasc., go 



Buildings, modern, 99 



Bull-baiting, 194 



" Bullockers," 20 



Burial customs, 43 



Butterflies, no, 254 



Cesrostris sty gi ana, 162 



Ccesalpinia sepiaria, 90 



Camels, 308 



Canals, 37 



" Candle-nut-tree," the, 158 



Canoe chants, 271 



Canoes, native, 33 



Cape Lilac, 81 



Cardinal-birds, 32 



Carnivora, species of, 66, 167, 303 



Carving in Betsileo, 230 



Cassia l&vigata, the, 90 



Cassis, 36 



Casuarina, the, 270 



Caterpillars, 132 



Caterpillars, a bag of, 130 



Cattle rearing, 182, 195 



Centetes ecaudatus, or tail-less tenrec, 



167 



Centetidae, the, 278 

 Centipedes, 160 

 Cercopis species, 91 

 Chameleons, 135, 288 

 Chameleonidae, species of the, 135 

 Charms, 86, 249 

 Cheirogaleus minor, 243 

 Children, Hova, 122 

 Cicada, the, 171 

 Clay in building, use of, 96 



Clematis bojeri, 101 



Climate, 75 



Climbing plants, 37, 142 



Clothing of the Malagasy, 124 



Coast-line, the, 36 



Coffee, 51 



Cold month, the, 124 



Commelyna Madagasc., 89 



Constellations, Malagasy names for, 



125 



Conus, 36 

 Convolvuli, 49 

 Coraciadce, 138 

 Coracopsis obscura, 234 

 Corvus scapulaius, 34 

 Cory, Mr, 99 

 Cosmaria, 200 

 Couas, the, 170 

 Crabs, 35 

 Crater lakes, 215 

 Craters, extinct, 208 

 Crayfish, 157 

 Crocodiles, 294 



Crocodiles of Lake Alaotra, 200 

 Crocodiles, superstitious dread of, 49 

 Crocodiles, extinct species of, 223 

 Crows, 34 



Cryptogamic vegetation, 143 

 Custom, a curious, 194 

 Customs at the New Year, 88 

 Customs of the Sihanaka, 203 

 Cycas thouarsii, 41 

 Cyclones, 148 

 Cynoglossum, 101 

 Cyprtsa, 36 



DAUPHINE, Fort, 232 



Davidson, Dr, 74 



Day, divisions of the, 93 



Days, uniformity in the length of the, 



92 



"Death-moths," no 

 Death's-head moth, 145 

 Deciduous trees, 125 

 Delphinus pas, 275 

 Dhows, 307 



Dialects, Hova and Malagasy, 236 

 Dinner with the Governor, 191 

 Dishes and spoons, primitive, 268 

 Dolphins, 275 

 Doorways, Betsileo, 236 

 Dracaena, 289 

 Dragonflies, 108 

 Dress, children's, 125 

 Dress, Sihanaka, 202 

 Drury, Robert, 183 

 Dry season, the, 113 

 Dye from trees, 158 



EARTHQUAKE, 224 

 Earthworms, enormous, 112, 155 



