INDEX 



Names of contributors are set in small capitals. 



Aboriginal carvings, 218 



Adaptive radiation, 66 



Admiralty Islets, 44, 315 



Aestrelata leticopiera, 14.'{, 144, 145 



Albatross, Black Eye-browed, 251 



American Museum of Natural History ex- 

 pedition, 56 



Anaconda, 54 



Anaphaeiii jana var. leutonia, 14 



Ancylostoma duodenale, 147 



Anderson. C, The Lure of the Big Nugget. 

 16 ; Museum Groups, 27 ; The Welcome 

 Stranger Nugget, 60 ; .Some famous 

 Diamonds anil their Story, 75 ; Opal, the 

 Rainbow Gem. 200 ; A IJinosaur Ex- 

 liibit, 314 



Anemones, 81, 108 



AnguUla, 40 



Animal distribution, 88 ; life, destruction of, 

 43. 65 ; protection. 65, 154, 223, 287 



Anous stolidus, 259 



Anteaters, Spinv, 65 



Ants, Green, 84; White, 11. 84 



Affteritia calcar, 106 , exigua, 106 



A'Stur fasciatus, 228 



Australian Museum, 5, 6 ; brief history of, 

 167 ; buildings, 255; collecting, 6t; con- 

 gestion, 95 ; Magazine, objects of, 3 



Babblers, 131 



Ball's Pyramid, 230 



Balolo worm, 220 



Banfield, E. J., 301 ; Death of, 284 



Banyans, 37 



Barnacles. 109 



Barrett, Charles, Some Birds of Prey, 225 ; 



" The Beachcomber "' and his Tropic 

 Isle, 301 

 Barter, 281 

 Beche-de-]\Ier, 36 

 Bee, Native, 274 

 " Belmont British,' 183 

 Big Island, 146 

 Big-hill Mutton Birds, 38 

 Bird Protection. 154, 185, 3(»6 

 Birds of prey, 225 ; useful and ilestructive, 



122-123 

 '■ Black " collection, 192 

 Blackfellows' pictiu-es, 7 

 Blue-billies. 44, 259 

 Boa consti-ictor, 54 

 Bone growth, 150 

 Boondeldah Island, 146 

 Bowen Island, 143 

 Bi'east Ornament from Rabaul, 1 24 

 Briggs, E. a., a Crawling Jelly-fish from 



Port Jackson, 20 ; A Naturalist on the 



Great Barrier Reef, 79 

 Biitish Museum expedition, 284 

 Brittle-Stars, 106 

 Brush Island, 142 

 Bulbul, Red-Whiskered, 152. 219 

 Biu-ns, Sir Jas., Death of, 288 

 Bursa bubo, 165-166 

 Butterfly, White Caper, 14 



Cabbage Tree Island, 143 

 Cacatua galerita, 265 

 Ca marasaurus, 315 

 Campobcia retuaa, 244 



Canoe, Solomon Island war. 74, 289 



Carpet snake, 54 



Cassis cornuta, 166 



Cayley. Neville W., Notes on the Babblers, 

 131 



Cephalopoda, 234 



Ceratophyllus fascial us, 1 16 



Cerchmis cenchroides, 229 



" Challenger " Expedition reminiscences, 212 



Chameleon, 189 



Charonia latnpas, 166 ; tritonis, 164 



Chough, White-winged, 227 



Cicada. Yellow ^Monday. 204 



C'itnoliosaurus, 121 



Clam. 36 ; Giant. 164 



CleiHacautha regale, 181 



Glutton, G. C, " Belmont British,"" 182 



Cockatoo, Death of White, 265 



Coinage, 281 



Collecting trip on a trawler, 171 



Co nchoecetes artificiosus, 245 



Coral reef, 33, 80, 259 



Corcorax melanorhamphus, 227 



Crab, Fiddler or Calling, 83 : Harlequin, 244 

 Hermit. 59 ; Marsupial, 58 ; Rock, 108 

 Sargasso or Gulf -weed, 57 ; Shaggy, 245 

 Shell-dwelling, 245 ; Spider, 244 ; Sponge, 

 243 



Crow's nest, 216 



Crustacean camoufleurs, 243 



Crustaceans. 57 



Ctoiocephalus canis, 116 



Ctenopsylla musculi, 116 



Cunjevoi, 107 



Currency, 281 



C ybium flamtneu)a, 163 



Cyclochila australasiat, 204 



Cynthia praeputialis, 107 



Dasybatis thetidis, 173 



Davidson. H. E. Sir Walter, Death of, 288 



Depths of the Sea, 48 



Diamond, Cullinan 78 ; Great Mogul, 78 ; 



Hope Blue. 76 ; Kohinoor. 75 ; Orloff. 78 



Pitt. 76 ; Sancy, 77 

 Diamond Snake, 54 

 D icrost ich us magnific us, 186 

 Dinosaur Exhibit. A, 315 

 Diomedia nielanophrys, 251 

 Diplodactylus vittatus, 248 

 Dorippe dorsipes, 246 

 Dove, Indian Spotted, 184 

 Dromidiopsis excavata, 245 

 Dugongs, 81 



Eagle, Wedge-tailed, 225 ; Whistling, 225 ; 



White- breasted Sea, 225 ; White-headed 



Sea, 225 

 Echidna, 65 



Egg collecting condemned. 185 

 Eg>pt, Toilet articles from, 119 

 Electric Rays, 89 

 Essay Competition, 232, 292 

 Eudyptula minor, 139, 142, 144. 197 

 Eunectes murinus, 54 

 Eunice viridis, 220 

 Eutermes pyriformis, 11 

 Ereirus later it us, 209 

 Extatoso tna tiaratuin, 17 9 



