INDEX. 



A. 



Abyssinian houses, 69 ; Abyssinian 

 indignation meeting at Atala, 73 ; 

 scramble for the discarded stores, 96 ; 

 author's conversation with an Abys- 

 sinian, 99 ; law of blood for blood 

 among the Abyssinians, 119 ; zoolo- 

 gical division of, 216, 221. 



Acanthodactylus boskianus, 456. 



Acanthodactylns mucronatus, 453. 



Accipiter nndnliventer, 55. 



Actitis hypolencos, 433. 



Actitis ochropns, 443. 



Aden, 4 ; sail to, ib. ; fauna found at, 

 4, 6; birds shot between Bombay and 

 Aden, 6 ; land shells found at, ib. ; 

 rocks of volcanic origin, 5, 193 ; birds 

 seen at, 6 ; author leaves Aden, 6 ; 

 return voyage to, 137. 



Adigrat, march to, 58 ; geology of, 59 ; 

 Adigrat sandstones, .170. 



.fidicnemus afSnis, 428. 



.ffidicnemus crepitans, 428. 



Mdon g^lactodes, 380. 



.^gialitis niveifrons, 429. 



.^^Utis tricoUaris, 108, 429. 



.Sua capensis, 65, 416. 



Agama aunectans, 446. 



Agama cyanogaster, 446. 



Agama occipitalis, 449. 



Agula, camping-ground at, 64 ; geology 

 of, ib. ; ruins of a church near, 65 ; 

 scenery of, ib. ; departure from, 66 ; 

 oolitic fossils found near, 99. 



Aiba valley, 74, 75. 



Ajuse, coral islaud of, reached, 6 ; diffi- 

 culty of landing on, 7 ; description of 

 the island, ib. ; departure from, to 

 Anuesley Bay, ib. 



Alauda arenicola, 387. 



Alauda cristata, 387. 



Alauda praetermissa, 388. 



Alaudse, 46. 



Alcedo semitorquata, 325. 



Alluvial deposits near the coast, 194. 



Amadina polyzona, 408. 



Ammomanes deserti, 390. 



Amydms albirostris, 46, 401. 



Amydrus Blythi, 34, 399, 400. 



Amydrus RiippeUi, 46, 398. 



Anatidfe, family, 437. 



Ancylus fluviatilis, 472. 



Animals of Abyssinia, principles of 

 classifying, 214-221. 



Anuesley Bay, 7, 8 ; country around 

 the bay and its fauna, 9-14. 



Anseba valley, fauna of, 125. 



Antalo limestones, 176; description 

 of fossils in, 201-203. 



Anthus campestris, 46, 383. 



Anthus cervinus, 46. 



Anthus sordidus, 46. 



Aquila rapax, 44, 295. 



Ardea comata, 435. 



Ardea gularis, 435. 



Ardeidse, 434. 



Ascidse, family, 471. 



Ashangi, lake of, 77 ; geology of the 

 neighbourhood, ib. ; rear-guard of the 

 army at, 95 ; physical geography of, 

 159. 



Atala, vaUey of, 73 ; Abyssiniao in- 

 dignation meeting at, 73 ; scenery 

 of, 74. 



Anriculidae, family, 469. 



Aviculidas, family, 471. 



B. 



Bakbattjla pusilla, 34, 311. 

 Bathyergus splendens, 95, 279. 

 Batrachia, order, 458. 

 Beni Israel, 29, 31, 268. 

 Bemicla cyanoptera, 75, 85, 439. 

 Birds, scarcity of, in the Indian Ocean, 4. 

 Bombay Harbour, author leaves, for 

 Abyssinia, 3. 



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