INDEX 



551 



Vultur aura, 60, 192, 303 



Waders, first colonists of distant islands, 



405 

 Waimate, New Zealand, 452 

 Waiomio, 456 

 Walckenaer on spiders, 39 

 Walleechu tree, 71 

 Wasps preying on spiders and killed by, 



37 to 39 

 Water-hog (Hydrochasrus capybara), 51 

 Water-serpents, 103 

 Water sold at Iquique, 386 

 Water, fresh, floating on salt, 41, 487 

 Waterhouse, Mr., on Rodents, 51, 485 



on the niata ox, 156 



on the insects of Tierra del Fuego, 



253 

 of Galapagos, 406, 417 

 on the terrestrial mammals of Gala- 

 pagos, 403 

 Waves caused by fall of ice, 237, 260 



from earthquakes, 326, 330 

 Weather, connection with earthquakes, 



375 

 Weatherboard, N.S. Wales, 465 

 Weeds in New Zealand, imported, 455 

 Weight of large quadrupeds, 88 

 Wellington, Mount, 477 

 Wells, ebbing and flowing, 487 



at Iquique, 388 

 West Indies, banks of sediment, 468 



zoology of, 143 



coral-reefs of, 502, 510 



Whales, oil from, 17 



leaping out of water, 236 

 White, Mr., on spiders, 36 

 Whitsunday Island, 495, 497 

 Wigwam cove, 223, 228 

 Wigwams of Fuegians, 151, 224 

 Williams, Rev. Mr., 448 



on infectious disorders, 452, 463 

 Winds, dry, in Tierra del Fuego, 245 



at the Cape Verds, 3 



on Cordillera, 345 



cold, on Cordillera, 384 

 Winter's Bark, 250, 299 

 Wolf at the Falklands, 204 

 Wollaston Island, 224, 244 

 Wood, Captain, on the Agouti, 72 

 Woollya, 239 



Vaquil gold mines, 283 



Yeso, Valle del, 341 



York Minster, 215, 227, 241, 294 



ZoNOTRiCHiA, 54 



Zoological provinces of N. and S. 



America, 140 

 Zoology of Galapagos, 403 



of Tierra del Fuego, 251 



of Chonos Islands, 306 



of Keeling Island, 485 



of St. Helena, 520 

 Zoophytes, 104, 211 



at Falkland Islands, 210 

 Zorillo, or skunk, '^t^ 



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