INDEX. 
519 
Valleys of New South Wales, 437 
Valparaiso, 252, 313 
Vampire bat, 22 
Vapour from forests, 24 
Van Diemen’s Land, 446 
Vanellus Cayanus, 114 
Vanessa, flocks of, 158 
Vanikoro, 469, 471, 475 
Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, 
489 
— on opposite sides of Cor- 
dillera, 326 
, luxuriant, not necessary 
to support large animals, 85 
Ventana, Sierra, 107 
Verbena melindres, 40 
Villa Vicencio, 331 
Virgularia Patagonica, 99, 202 
Volcanic bombs, 493 
islands, 8 
—-—— phenomena, 311 
Volcanos near Chiloe, 273, 275, 291, 
310 
, their presence determined 
by elevation or subsidence, 480 
Vultur aura, 58, 184, 284 
Waders, first colonists of distant is- 
lands, 380 
Waimate, New Zealand, 421 
Walckenaer on spiders, 38 
Walleechu tree, 68 
Wasps preying on spiders and killed 
by, 35—38 
Water-hog, 49 
Water, sold at Iquique, 362 
. fresh, floating on salt, 39, 
458 
Waterhouse, Mr., on Rodents, 49, 378 
————- on the Niata ox, 
146 
——- on the insects of Ti- 
crra del Fuego, 238 
of Gala- 
Jagos, 381, 392 
Waves, caused by fall of ice, 224, 
246 
from earthquakes, 305, 309 
Weather, connection with earth- 
quakes, 351 
Weather-board, N.S. Wales, 437 
Weeds in New Zealand, imported. 
3892, 428 
Weight of large quadrupeds, 87 
Wellington, Mount, 448 
Wells, ebbing and flowing, 458 
—— at Iquique, 364 
West Indies, banks of, 439 
» coral reefs of, 472, 480 
———,, zoology of, 132 
Whales, oil from, 17 
—-—- leaping out of water, 223 
White, Mr., on spiders, 35 
Wigwams of Fuegians, 212 
Williams, Rev., on infectious disor- 
ders, 435 
Winds, dry, in Tierra del Fuego, 231 
——— at the Cape Verds, 3 
——,, cold, on Cordillera, 560 
on Cordillera, 323 
Winter’s Bark, 235, 281 
Wolf at the Falklands, 193 
Wood, Capt., on the Agouti, 70 
Woollya, 221 
Yaquil, 265 
Yeso, Valle del, 319 
York Minster, 208 
Zonotrichia, 52 
Zoological provinces of N. and S. 
America, 131 
Zoology of Galapagos, 377 
of Keeling Island, 456 
~——— of Tierra del Fuego, 236 
of Chonos Islands, 287 
— of St. Helena, 490 
Zoophytes, 99 
————_ at Falkland Islands, 201 
Zorillc, or skunk, 80 
THE END. 
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