292 INDEX. 
Pace Pacz 
Australian wrens 66 Black-headed Gouldian finch ... 57 
Avicennia officinalis ‘ 275 » swan 36 
Avifauna, Houtman’s Abrolhos 136 Blister pearls .. 198 
Blue crab 150, 238 
» fish 170 
B »» groper 174 
», head parrot ae 174 
“ Bahmeen ” vi e ies 169 » shark 154, 193 
Bancroft, Dr. James, on Mangrove respiration 275 », -tongued lizard wee 98 
Bandicoot 20 Boab or Baobab 37, 266 
Balistes ... 189 Bob-tailed lizard 94 
Banksia grandis 274 Bombay duck 176 
‘ Banshee ” 274 Boobook owl 41 
Baobab ... ies beh 37 Boomerang, Australian... 11 
» or Bottle-tree ... 2 .. 87, 266 s Indian 290 
is rejuvenescent properties 270 “ Boomer” kangaroo 21 
“ Barok ” pearls 198 Boongarry ‘ 21 
Barracouta 33 tak 170 “ Bottled-nosed ” Siaipue 161 
a method of taking... 171 Bottle-tree is ea 37 
Barracuda we 2) 5 or Baobab ... ...37, 266 
Barramundi 160, 179 Bower birds as 33 
Barrier reef béche-de-mer 149 Broome, port of, Heabudk Bay 197 
Bastard trumpeter ‘ ; 163 Bruguiera Rheedii 277 
“ Batavia” wreck on Howutian’s Rproitia 134 Brush Turkey ... ne 32 
Bearded lizard . 81 Buckland Fish Museum 164 
Beaumontia geandiiors 288 Bull-dog ants 252 
Béche-de-Mer fishery, Western Aitdivelia 196 7 shark .. 193 
8 of Houtman’s Abrolhos 148 Bummuloh 176 
i Roebuck Bay 217 Burnet River salmon 179 
- “black fish ” 149 Butcher-bird 51 
3 “red fish” 149 Butter fish 166 
i “surf red” 149 
4 “teat fish ” 149 
Belenois Clytie, its social diate. 257 C 
Bell bird 66 
Bellows fish ae6 154 Cacti acclimatised in Australia 283 
Bennett, Dr. George, on Ghudtnotiynahad 16 Caldwell, W. H., Oviparous habits of Ornitho- 
Berycide 167 rhynchus first demonstrated by se 16 
Beryx affinis 167 Callorhynchus antarcticus 155, 193 
»  Mulleri ... F 167 Calotermes flavicollis ae iy .. 110 
Bird life on Murray River 36 Campbell, A. J., Avifauna of Houtman’s 
», like pea-blossom ... 279 Abrolhos 136 
Bird’s-foot sea-star 244 Carangide 169 
Birds frequenting Houtman’s Sains 136 Caranx trachurus 169 
» of Paradise 34 » gallus ... 169 
“ Birth of a coral island” 147 »  georgianus 170 
Blackboys, or Grass-trees 271 »  Yradiatus 169 
», edged pear! shell 212 Carassius vulgaris w=: 184 
» fish, Tasmanian ... 156 Carcharias glaucus 154, 193 
