INDEX 



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Birds, Himalayan types of, in Celebes, 

 462 

 list of, land-birds of Celebes, 465 

 of New Zealand, 476, 482 

 wingless, of New Zealand, 476 

 .Blackburn, Mr. T., on the beetles of the 



Sandwich Islands, 317ft 

 .^Blakiston and Pryer on birds of Japan, 



396 

 ,_Blanford, Mr. W. T., on small effect of 



marine denudation, 225 

 .^JBJanford, Mr. H. F., on former connec- 

 tion of Africa and India, 426 

 Blocks, travelled and perched, 109 

 Blue magpies, range of, 15 

 Borneo, geology of, 375 

 mammalia of, 376 

 birds of, 378 



affinities of fauna of, 380 

 Borneo and Asia, resemblance of, 6 

 Borneo and Java, 373 

 Boulder-beds of the carboniferous forma- 

 tion, 201 

 Boulder clays of East of England, 118 

 Bovidse, 29 

 ^rady, Mr. H. B., on habitat of globi- 



gerinse, 92 

 Wraith waite. Dr. R., on peculiar British 



mosses, 365 

 Britain, probable climate of, with winter 



in a helion, 156 

 British birds, range of, 34-38 

 British Columbia, interglacial warm 



periods in, 121 

 British fauna and flora, peculiarities of, 



370 

 British Isles, recent changes in, 332 

 proofs of former elevation of, 334 

 submerged forests of, 335 

 buried river channels of, 336 

 last union of, with continent, 337 

 why poor in species, 338 

 peculiar birds of, 339 

 fresh-water fishes of, 340 

 peculiar insects of, 344 

 peculiar Lepidoptera of, 346a 

 peculiar Coleoptera of, 351 

 peculiar Trichoptera of, 355 

 peculiar land and fresh -water shells 



of, 354 

 peculiarities of the flora of, 360 

 peculiar mosses and Hepaticae of, 366 

 British mammals as indicating a zoologi- 

 cal region, 33 

 fuller, Sir W. L., on the New Zealand 



rat, 475 

 Buried river-channels, 336 

 Buteo solitarius, 314 

 Butterflies of Celebes, peculiar shape of, 



463 

 Butterflies, peculiar British, 346a. 



C. 



Caddis-flies peculiar to Britain, 355 

 Caecilia, species of in the Seychelles, 432 

 wide distribution of, 432 



Ca3ciliad8e, 28 



Callithea Leprieuriy distribution of, 18 



Caliithea sapphira, 18 



Camels as destroyers of vegetation, 290 



former wide distribution ot, 420 

 Camelus, 17, 27 

 Campanula vidalii^ 261 

 Canis, 17, 26 



Carabus, numerous species of, 42 

 Carboniferous boulder-beds, 201 



warm Arctic climate, 201 

 Carnivora in Madagascar, 417 

 Carpenter, Dr., on habitat of globigerinse, 

 92 

 _ Carpenter, Mr. Edward, on Mars and 

 glacial periods, 164 

 Carduus marianus in New Zealand, 515 

 Carpodacus purpureus and P. californicuSt 



68 

 Castor, 17 

 Casuarina, 185 



in India, 527 

 Cause of extinction, 63 

 Caves of Glamorganshire, 336 

 Cebibse, overlapping genera of, 29 

 Celebes, physical features of, 451 



map of islands around, 452 



zoology of, 455 



derivation of mammals of, 456 



birds of, 457 



not a continental island, 461 



insect peculiarities of, 462 



Himalayan types in, 462 



peculiarity of butterflies of, 463 



list of land-birds of, 465 

 Centetidse, 27 

 Centetidfe, formerly inhabited Europe, 



420 

 Central America, mixed fauna of, 53 

 Ceratodus, or mud-fish, 69 

 Cervus, 17, 26 



Chalk a supposed oceanic formation, 89 

 Chalk at Oahu, analysis of, 90 

 Chalk, analysis of, 91 

 Chalk moUusca indicative of shallow 



water, 93 

 Chalk sea, extent of in Europe, 93 

 Chalk-formation, land-plants found in, 

 94 



deposited in an inland sea, 93 



of Faxoe an ancient coral reef, 94 



modern formation of, 95 



supposed oceanic origin of, erro- 

 neous, 96 

 "Challenger" soundings and shore-de- 



" Challenger" ridge in the Atlantic, 101 

 Chameleons very abundant in Mada- 

 gascar, 430 

 Chamois, distribution of, 13 

 Changes of land and sea, 83 

 Chasmorhynchus, distribution of, 24 

 C. nudicollis, 24 

 C. tricarunculatus, 24 

 C. variegatus, 24 

 C. niveus, 24 

 j Chilomenus lunata, 300 

 Chinchillas, 26 



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