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INDEX. 



Porcupine, 91 



Potamochserus edwardsi, 188 

 Potamogale, 102 

 Praechidna bruijnii, 117 

 Priodon, 32 

 Prooarpa, 92 

 Produetus, 163 

 Prosthemadera, 201 

 Proteles, 102 

 Protopterus, 228 

 Psammomys, 91 

 Pseudapteryx, 202 

 Psittinus, 105 

 Psophia, 109, 111, 167 

 Psophiidse, 11, 76 

 Pteroclidse, 75 

 Pteromys, 104 

 Pteropidse, 77 

 Pncrasia, 93 

 Puma, The, 94 

 Pupa, 85 

 Pygopodidse, 42 

 Pyrophthalma, 92 

 Pythons, 46 



Querquedula eatoni, 193 



Babbits in Australia, 129 



Rana esoulenta, 146; guppyi, 47, 

 77 ; mascarina, 176 



Ratitse, 76 



Eegion, Holarctio, 78, 80; Poly- 

 nesian, 77 



Regions, Arctic and Antarctic, 76 ; 

 Hepetological, 79 ; Mr Huxley's, 

 75; Mr Sclater's, 72, 78, 88; 

 Use of birds for denning, 82 



Reptiles, Dispersal of, 147 ; of 

 the Galapagos, 196; and Ocean 

 barriers, 149 



Restricted groups, 10 

 Rhacophorus, 49, 178 ; reinwardti, 



49 

 Rhea, 111 ; Distribution of, 19 ; 



Species of, 20 

 Rhea americana, 19, 20 ; darwini, 



19, 20; macrorhyncha, 19, 20 

 Rhinoceros, 99 

 Rhinochetidse, 11, 77 

 Rhinodrilus, 64 

 Rhynchocephalia, 12 

 Rhynchodemidse, 55 

 Rhynchodemus, 55 

 Rodents of Madagascar, 188 

 Rotifers, 136 



Salmo perisii, 185 



Salpinctes, 97 



Sandwich Islands, Fauna of, 203 



Schistocerca literosa, 199; melano- 



cerca, 198 

 Scincidae, 40 

 Scopus, 100 



Scorpions, Distribution of, 49 

 Scotophilus tuberculatus, 200 

 Sea-lions, 168 

 Sea-serpent, 168 

 Selasphorus rufus, 97 

 Seleucides, 117 

 Semnopithecus, 106 

 Serolis, 172; distribution of, 175; 



species of, 173, 174 

 Serolis carinata, 174, 176 ; minuta, 



175 ; paradoxa, 174 ; septem- 



carinata, 175 

 Seychelles, Mollusca of, 179 

 Siamanga, 104 

 Siberian sub-region, 91, 92 

 Siphonogaster, 63, 138 

 Skunk, The, 94, 109 



