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INDEX. 



Batavia, description of, 5, 7 ; Chinese 

 in, 7 ; Arabs in, 7 



Batracliians in Tinior-laut, 337 



Bats in West Java, 7 1 



Batu-Brah, houses in the village of, 167 



Batn-Pantjeh, village of, 217; coial 

 blocks near, 217 ; treatment received 

 in, 217 ; liouses in, 217 ; marriages 

 in. 218 ; games in, 219 



Beads, Timor, 285 



Beccari, Dr., 206 



Beddome, Colonel, on forest devasta- 

 tion, 62 



Belenois, coloration of sexes of, 130 



Bell-birds, their plumage, 58 



Beneawang, stay at, 161 



Deo, or Javanese graclile, 72 



Bibi(;uQu, stay at, 449 ; view from, 453 ; 

 houses in, 454 



Bigin 'J'elok, stay at village of, 253 



Bird life on tliB liupit river, 238 



Birds, near Dilly, 421, 422; near Sauo 

 1(1 Timor, 434 ; of Bum, list of, 409 ; 

 at sea, 4, 5 ; of Keeling Island, list 

 of, 44 : of Sumatra, list of, 268 ; of 

 Timor-laut, list of, 355 ; at Wakolo 

 Lake, 406 



Bird's CKcieta mimicked by spider, 63 



Bir(jiislatro, habits of, 27 



Births, illegitimate, in Passumah, 197 ; 

 in Kisam, 182 



Blacksmitlis, native, in Java, 66 



Blood-money, law as to, 145 



Blood brotherhood, ceremony of, in 

 Timor, 452 



Bock, Carl, collected bir-Is in Suma- 

 tra, 268 



Tloea treubii, 251 ; description of, 979 



Bomhus senex, 208; fertilising Melas- 

 toma, 228 



Bonnier, M., observations on Sanibucus, 

 226 



Bos banleng in Java, 116 



Botia micrantlms, 177 



Botys deduclalis, 1 72 



Boulenger, Mr., on reptiles and baira- 

 cliians from Timor-laut, 368 



Brachypterijx afratus, 209 



liracken ferns, 397 



Bread-fruit trees at Tengah-teng,di, 292 



Britten, Mr. J., on Timor plants, 499 



Brockon, Spectre of the, 213 



Brown's, K., plants from Timor, 497 



Brugmansia lowii, 154 



Brugmansia, new species of, 200 



Bryopliyllum calycinum, notes on leaves 

 of, 82 : 



Bubulcus caromandus, 177 



Buceros, spp., 1 30 ; galeatas, ] 52 ; 

 anatomy of its casque, 1 53 



Buchnera, new species of, 430 



Buffido-birds, 55 



Buffaloes in Timor-laut, 312, 336 



Buitenzorg, beauty of, 8 ; its surround- 

 ing scenery, 9 ; its botanical garden, 9 



Buini-pa()ang, halt at, 166 



Burck, Dr., oljservations of, on pollen of 

 Melastoma, 223 ; on Myrmsoodia and 

 Hydnophytiim, 80 



Burial rites in Kisum, 1 82 ; in Timor, 435, 

 405 ; and places in Timor-laut, 322 ; 

 in Burn, 404, 405 ; in Passumah, 199 



Burliugs, the, 1 



Buru, Ale'furus of, 392; dispersion of 

 Polynesian races from, 392 ; birds in, 

 393, 394; villages in, 394; houses 

 in, 395; marriage lites in, 404; 

 death and burial rites in, 404, 405 ; 

 superstitions in, 405 



Butler, Mr. A. G., on Lepidoptera from 

 Tinior-)aut, 375, from Sumatra, 276 



Butorides javanica, 177 



Butterflies collected in Timor-laut, 375 



Buxton, Mr. E. C., collected birds in 

 Sumatra, 268 



Caeatua sulphurea, 421 



Calanthe veratrifolia, fertilisation of, 



84; falsely oleistogamous, 85 

 Calcareousrocks near Liguani river, 481 

 CaHtdri/as, coloration of tlie sexes of, 130 

 Callidula javanica, 172 

 Calliplea visenda, 325 

 Calodraco jacquinii, 169 

 Caloperdix oculea, 226 

 Cambodia, 9 

 Cambridge, Rev. 0. P., on a new genus 



ofspiders, 63, 119-121 

 Gampanulacese in Timor, 430 

 Canals in Batavia, 5 

 Canihecima cognata, 277 

 Oaprioornis sumatrensis, 172 

 Captain of tlie Cliinese in Amboina, 



kindness of, 288 

 Curpnphaga concinna, 2S7 

 Carriage, a, in the village of Pengan- 



donan, 184 

 Carruthers, Mr. W., F.B.S , on Timor 



ferns, 522 

 Cattleyas, 10 



Cethosia Carolina, new species, 274 

 Ceplialanthera grandiflora, fertilisation 



of, 85 

 Cerbera ladarea, C. odollam, food- 

 plants of Ornilhopterss, 291 

 Cerillo Peak, 191 ; superstitions about, 



192 

 Genus Mppelaphus, 31 ; equinus, 31 

 Cetliosia lamarclni, 470 

 Ceyx cajeli, 393 



Choetodim in Keeling lagoon, 24 

 Chanapa sacerdos, 325 



