507 



Preparation of specimens, 34. 78. 



235. 

 Prickly-pear, 27. .' 

 Prickly-pole, 253. 

 Prospects, fine, 31. 36, 62. 90. 93. 



122, 123. 141. 149. 212. 301. 



R. 



Rabbits, wild, 441. 



Radonda, 17. 



Rains, 203. 



Rats, a new species of, 444 : the 

 Price, 445 : what and whence, 

 446 : the Caribbean, 449 : 

 Long's Field rats, 450. 



Red hairy-tailed Bat, 279. 



Ride to Content, 86 : to Kilmar- 

 nock, 121. 



Ringtail Pallette-tip, 254. 



Robin's River, 87. 



Rorqual, 1. 



Rose of Jamaica, 68. 



Sabito, insects of, 98 : plants of, 

 99. 239. 



Savanna-le-Mar, 37 : market at, 

 57. 



Scorpions, 164: comb of, 165: 

 sting of, 490. 



Seal of Pedro Kays, 307. 



Sea-side Grape, 98. 



Sea-slug, 55. 



Sea-weeds, 23. 



Shark, 241. 



Sheathclaw Gecko, habits of, 

 178: its singular voice, 180 

 sloughing, 181: reproduction 

 of the tail, 182: eggs, 184 

 food, 185. 



Shells, mai4ne, 24. 32. 56. 59. 

 terrestial, 30. 65. 96. 121. 124. 

 126. 128. 301. 



Shore-plants, 26. 



Silk-cotton tree 271 : its appear- 

 ance, 272: spurs, 272: gigan- 

 tic size, 273: cotton, 274: 

 superstition, 275: peculiarity 

 of foliation, 275 492. 



Sipuneuii, 56. 



Snakes, 228. 262. 314. 324. 371. 

 374. 384. 



Snappers, 209. 



Snipe-fish, 2. 



Soap-berries, 279. 



Sole, new species of, 52. 



Solitaire, 64. 139. 167. 302. 



Songs of birds, 154, 166. 



Southern Cross, 41. 



Spiders, 165: brush-footed, 28. 

 239; trap-door, 115: their 

 nest, 119: mode of construc- 

 tion, 116: air-holes, 118: sil- 

 ver-bodied, 463 : web of, 464. 



Spirula, 7. 



Sponges, 51. 



Spotted-chinned Snake, 384. 



Sprat, 289. 



Star-apple, 91. 258. 



Star-fishes, 55. 58. 



Starlight at sea, 13. 



Starvegut Bay, plants and insects 

 of, 491. 



St. Thomas, 485, 



Sugar-cane insects, 450: borer- 

 weevil, 451: its depredations, 

 452: antidotes, 453: palm- 

 -rt'eevil, 455 : borer-moth, 455 : 

 cant aphis, 457: cane-fly, 459 : 

 termites, 459, 



Swimming-crabs, 21. 



Tanager, scarlet, 304, 

 Termites, 118: voracity of, 120: 



nests of, 119, 460: inhabited 



by other animals, 120 : used 



for fuel, 120. : destructive to 



sugar-cane, 459. 

 Tichicro, 91. 

 Tickiticky described, 84. 

 Toad, Agua, 425. (See Agua). 

 Tody, 133. 

 Tortoise, a doubtful native, 421 : 



habits of one in Antigua, 423 : 



eggs of, 425. 

 Towing-net, 6 : its success, 7.21, 

 Tree-ferns, 68: compared with 



palms, 69: another species, 



137. 



