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Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 35 
Aborigines banished from Van Die- 
men’s Land, 447; 
of Australia, 433 to 450 
Abrolhos, 14 
Absence of trees in Pampas, 46 
Aconcagua, volcano of, 253, 291 
Actinia, stinging species, 464 
Africa, Southern part desert, yet sup- 
ports large animals, 85 
Agouti, habits of, 69 
Ague common in Peru, 365 
Albemarle Island, 376 
Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14 
on Holuthurie, 465 
Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 364 
, Stratified, in Andes, 315 
Amblyrhynchus, 385, 394 
Anas, species of, 199 
Animalcule, see Infusoria 
Antarctic islands, 248 
Antipodes, 417 
Ants at Keeling island, 456 
in Brazil, 34 
Apires, or miners, 340 
Aplysia, 6 
Apple-trees, 297 
Aptenodytes demersa, 199 
Areas of alternate movements in the 
Pacific and Indian oceans, 480 
Armadilloes, habits of, 95 
, fossil animals allied to, 
130, 155 
Arrow-heads, ancient, 105, 357 
Ascension, 491 
Aspalax, blindness of, 52 
Athene, 70, 125 
Atolls, 465 
Attagis, 94 a 
Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 118 
Audubon, M., on smelling-power of 
carrion-hawks, 184 
Australia, 481 
Australian barrier, 474 
Azara on spiders, 36, 38 
on rain in La Plata, 47 
Azara on range of carrion-hawks, 59 
- on habits of carrion-hawks, 57 
on a thunder-storm, 61 
on ostrich-eggs, 91 
on bows and arrows, 105 
——-~ on new plants springing up, 
119 
on great droughts, 133 
on hydrophobia, 353 
Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 185 
Bahia Blanca, 76 to 105 
Bahia, Brazil, 11 
» Scenery of, 495 
Balbi on coral reefs, 470 
Bald Head, Australia, 450 
Ballenar, Chile, 349 
Banda Oriental, 39, 142 
Banks’s Hill, 210 
Barking-bird, 288 
Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 180 
Bathurst, Australia, 442 
Bats, vampire, 22 
Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 417 
Beads’, hill of, 149 
Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 
217 
Beech-trees, 235, 281 
Beetles alive in sea, 159 
, dung-feeders, 490 
at St. Julian, 170 
in brackish water, 22 
on a fungus, 32 
Behring’s Straits, fossils of, 132 
Bell of Quillota, 255 
Benchuca, 330 
Berkeley Sound, 188 
» Rev. J., on Conferve, 14 
, on Cyttaria, 236 
Bibron, M., 381, 385 
Bien-te-veo, 54 
Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 
378, 394 
Birds, tameness of, 398 
Birgos latro,.462 
Bizcacha, habits of, 70, 124 
