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INDEX 



Ostrich, blood of, 79 



wing of, 50 

 Otters, 32, 134 

 Ox, blood of, 78 



fore leg of, 44, 45, 46 



Pacific, islands of South, 142 

 Palaeontology, 55, 82 

 Palseotheres, 107 

 Palaeozoic era, 87 



life, 91 

 Paleocene epoch, 87, 104 

 Palingenetic, 59, 60 

 Palms, 88, 120 



cocoa-nut, 143 

 Pampas, 15 

 Panama, Isthmus of, 131, 134, 138 



marine fishes of, 138 

 Parasites, 72 

 Patagonia, 135 

 Peas, 158 

 Peccaries, 134 

 Penguins, 50 

 Pennsylvania, 84, 109 

 Perissodactyla, 112 

 Permian period, 87, 98 

 "Philosophie Zoblogique," 8 

 Phylogeny, 57 

 Phylum, 32 



PlCTET, 153 



Pigeons, 36 



Pigs, 144 



Plants, Carboniferous, 95 



Cenozoic, 88 



Cretaceous, 93 



evolution of, 166 



modification of, 150 



of White Mts., 130 



origin of cultivated, 28 



Pleistocene epoch, 87, 99, 106, 109, 

 116, 122, 129, 130, 131, 132, 

 133, 138, 140 



Pliocene epoch, 87, 101, 106, 107, 

 108, 109, 113, 129 



Pliohippus, 108 



Poebrotherium, 115, 117 



Pointer, 36 



Porcupine, Canada, 133 



Porto Rico, 143 



Porto Santo, 37, 39 



Potato-beetle, 155, 164 



Pouter, 36 



Pre-Cambrian eras, 87 



Preformation, 62 



Procamelus, 115, 117 



Protohippus, 102, 105 



Protylopus, 115, 117 



Province, zoological, 128 



Pterodactyls, 50 



Quadrupeds, 32, 89 

 Quaternary period, 87 



Rabbit, European wild, 37 



Falkland Id., 39 



Jamaica, 39 



Porto Santo, 37 

 Rabbits, 121, 134, 144 

 Raccoons, 32, 134, 140 

 Races, geographical, 34 

 Radius, 43, 44, 45, 100, 104, 114 

 Rails, 146 

 Ranunculus, 151 

 Rats, 134, 144 

 Raven, 49 

 Rat, 7 



Realm, zoological, 136 

 Recapitulation theory, 57, 61, 64, 



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