INDEX. 



Desert, life in, 70. 



Devil-bird, 219. 



Diatoms, forms of, 96, 149— influence of, 97— increase of, 150. 



Dogs, wild, 326. 



Dragon-tree, 130, 



Duck, summer, 190. 



Eagle, Washington's, 176— jealousy of, 190. 



Egg of salpina, 161. 



Elephant in Africa, 60— height of, 115-rage of, 234. 



Elevations, insects of, 87. 



Enaliosauri, existing, 338. 



Fauna, blind, 78. 



Fawn, Gemze, 200. 



Fern-owls, 180. 



Ferns, tree, 172. 



Fire-flies, 40. 



Fishes in boiling water, 77— in bed, 88— in parlour, 89. 



Flies, plagues of, 109. 



Flints, origin of, 100. 



Floscularia, 157. 



Flowers, spring, 15. 



Forest, leafing of, 16— colours of, 19— in Brazil, 63, 172— planted 



by birds, 103- in Jamaica, 170. 

 Frost, effects of, 13. 



Ganges, source of, 59. 

 Gazelle, 46. 

 Golubacser fly, 110. 

 Gorilla, 244. 

 Grebes, 204. 

 Guacharo, 78, 221. 

 Guanaco, 55. 

 Gum-trees, large, 135. 



Hanno, voyage of, 243. 

 Heliconia, 168. 

 Hot Springs, life in, 77. 

 Hyena in Palmyra, 48. 



Ice, trees in, 70. 



Iguana, case of, 338. 



Infusoria, 154. 



Insects, destructive, 104— water, 23— luminous, 40— brine, 76— 



at sea, 85 - at great heights, 87. 

 Invisible, the, 149. 

 Islands, coral, 91. 



Jackal, shriek of, 225. 



Jamaica, morning in, 24— forest in, 171— collecting in, 256. 



Kangaroo, combat with, 241. 



Lagoons, 93. 

 Lammergeyer, 50. 

 Leaflng of trees, 16. 

 Lion at midnight, 62. 

 Locust-tree, size of, 135. 

 Locusts, ravages of, 104. 



Mammoth-tree, 137. 

 Manoota, 253. 



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