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INDEX 



Cow- tree, 46 

 Cricket, musical, t68 

 Cucama Indians, 341 

 Cupu-trees, 268 

 Curassow birds, 310 

 Curua palm, 270, 288 

 Curupira, wood-demon, 49 

 Cutia, 133 



Cyphorhinus cantans, or organ 

 bird, 502 



Darwin, on colours of animals of 



Galapagos Islands, 14 

 Delta of the Amazons, 3, 73 

 Diamonds, 298 



Diurnal cycle of phenomena, 40 

 Dog, wild, new species of, 405 

 Dolphins, fresh-water, 97, 203, 



Domesticable animals, 128 

 Dragon-flies, 70, 257 



Earthenware, 263 

 Education, 25, 192, 243 

 Electric eels, 429 

 Euglossa surinamensis, 266 



Fauna of Para, adapted to forest, 

 32, 79 



— derivation of, 72 

 Ferns, 46, 493 

 Finches, 274 

 Fire-ant, 292, 295, 299 

 Fish-dance, 419 

 Fishes, 329 



— modes of capturing, 85, 290 

 Flies, parasitic, 479 

 Flowers, scarcity of, 47 

 Foraging ants, 469 



Free Negroes, 8. 214, 500 

 Fritillary butterfly, 274 

 Fruits, 213, 245, 379 



Goajara, bay of, 75 

 Goatsuckers, 137, 275 

 Government officials, 239 

 Gum copal, 56 



Hagen, Dr. on Termites, 276 

 Hapale humeralifer, 272 



— jacchus, 66 

 Hapale pygmajus, 450 

 Heliconii butterflies, 172, 304 

 Helicopii Cupido and Endymion, 



15 



Helicops, snake, 123 



Heron, peacock, 55 



Hetaira Esmeralda, 69 



Histeridae, 141 



Howling monkeys, 48, 196 



Humidity, increase of, towards 



Andes, 495 

 Humming-birds, 109, 120, 255 



Igarite canoe, description of, 50 

 Iguana, 80 



Indians, and Brazilian land-law, 



132 



— character of, 52 



— defect of character o., regarding 

 domestication of animals, 128 



— enslaving of, 226 



— unsuited to a hot climate, 368 

 India-rubber tree, 95 



Instinct of locality, 259 

 Iriartea ventricosa, 348 



Jaburu channel, 151 

 Jacamars, 92 

 Jacuaru, 270 

 Jacitara, 32, 216 

 Japim, IT 



Jesuit missionaries, 54, 207 

 Jupati palm, 150 



KiNKAjou, or Jupura, 450 



Lacre, or wax-trees, 196 

 Languages, Indian, 221, 368 

 Leaf-carrying ant, 17 

 Leeches, 410 

 Leprosy, 245 



Lesp6s, M., on Termites, 282 

 Longicorn beetles, 140 

 Loranthaceas, on cacao-trees, 106 

 Loricaria fish, 153, 429 



Macaws hyacinthine, 88, 328 

 Madeira, river, 210 

 Majerona Indians, 506 

 Mameluco settlers, 213, 436 

 Manaos Indians, 226 

 Manatee, 345 



Mandioca, mode of packing, 294 



— planting, 375 



— plant, range of, 130 

 Manicueira, kind of Mandioca, 291 

 Maraua Indians, 489 



Mariet6 Indians, 486 

 Marmosets, 64, 272, 449 

 Mauhes Indians, 186, 325 

 Mason bees, 265 



— wasps, 263 



