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Agrias, 199 



Air-roots, 33 



Aiyussa turtle, 422 



Alligators, 153, 358, 411, 420, 426, 



428, 433, 496 

 Amazons, province, population of, 



228 



— valley, contraction of, 156 



— Lower, rising and sinking of, 



— Upper, rising and sinking of, 

 381 . 



Amphisbaena snakes, 67 

 Ampullaria, 82, 256 

 Anaca parrots, 1 52 

 Anaconda, 311 



Animals, large, scarcity of, 47 



Ant-eaters, 118 



Arara Indians, 211 



Arboreal nature of Fauna, 32, 48 



ArroW'grass, 185 



Arrows for shooting turtle, 409 



Arroyas, cataracts of, 90 



Arub^ sauce, 213 



Arums, forest of, 134 



Assacu, poisonous tree, 427 



Assai palm, 5, 82 



Ateles marginatus, 315 



Atmosphere, transparency of, 84 



Attalea excelsa, 347 



Bacaba palms, 150, 262, 348 



Barbets, 186 



Barrigudo monkeys, 448 



Bats, 117 



Bees, 47, 266 



Bembex, 258 



Bird-killing spider, 107 



Birds, insectivorous, flocks of, 



^458 . 



Blow-pipe, 392 



Boa-constrictor, 66, 316 



Box-wood, 288 



Brachyurus calvus and rubicun- 



dus, 440 

 Brazil-nut trees, 45, 90 

 Breio branco, 251 



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Burmeister, on virgin forest, 35 

 Butterflies, great diversity of, 

 near Para, 68 



— importance of, in Biological 

 science, 466 



— of Ega, 386 

 Buttress-trees, 45 

 Byrsomina, 251 



Cacao planters, 106, 179 

 Caiarara monkeys, 301 

 Caishana Indians, 484 

 Caju trees, 251 

 Callidryas, 167 

 Callithea, 167, 199, 387 

 Callithrix monkeys, 187, 301 

 Canary (birds), 188 

 Cannibal Indians., 506 

 Canoes, description of, 50 



— mode of building, 314 

 Canoe-men, songs of, 100 

 Carashu^ thrush, song of, 170 

 Carnivorous beetles, 140 

 Cassicus icteronotus, 11 

 Catagramma, 167, 424 

 Cebus albifrons, 302 



— cirrhifer, 216, 303 

 Cecropia-tree, 184 

 Cedar-tree, 57, 87 

 Chlamys, 232 

 Chrysothrix sciureus, 217 

 Cicadas, 330, 386 



Clark, Rev. Hamlet, on Saiiba 



ant, 18 

 Climbing animals, 32 

 Climbing trees, 32 

 Coaita monkey, 164 

 Coca, 376 



Cocoons, suspended, 467 

 Coleopterous insects, 41, 55, 71, 



Colours of insects adapted to soil, 



^39 . . 



— of tropical insects not directly 

 due to climate, 13 



Conibo Indians, 487 

 Conurus guianensis, 304 

 Couxio monkey, 108, 289 



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