INDEX. 



805 



698; puma, 710. quagga, 733; rhinoceros, 

 721; sloth, 678; tiger, 705; vicuna, 483; 

 wild-cats, 711; zebras, 733. 

 Anomaluri, the, 673. 



Ant-bears, 606; ant-bear and jaguar, 607. 

 Ant-hills, 602. 



Ants : Their numbers, 594 ; pain of their bite, 

 595; destructive of plants, 596; houseliold 

 pests, 597; the bashikouay, 598; house- 

 building ants, 699 ; slave-holding ants, 600. 



Apes. (See Monkeys.) 



Aphides, or plant-lice, furnish honey for ants, 

 600. 



Arabia, coffee culture in, 565. 

 Arabs, mode of hunting the lion, 702. 

 Aras, or macaws, 662, 

 Argala, or adjutant-bird, 625, 657. 

 Armadillos, 609; extinct species, 610. 

 Arrow-root, the, 555. 



Aru, how natives of, shoot birds of paradise, 

 654. 



Atacama, Peruvian Desert, 508. 

 Ateles, or spider-monkeys, 690. 

 Atlas, Mount, Lion-hunting in, 700. 

 Atmosphere, the : currents of, 475. 

 Atolls, or coral islands, 478. 

 Atta cephalotes, ant destructive of the banana, 

 596. 



Australia, coral reef of, 479; desert of, 508; 

 birds of, 655 ; bower-bird of, 656 ; the tale- 

 galla, 656 ; the emu of, 668. 



B. 



Babirusa, the 736. 



Baboons. (See Monkeys.) 



Bacha, or African falcon, the, 697. 



Bamboos, uses of, 532. 



Banana, and plantain, 551, 



Banyan, or Indian fig-tree, 629. 



Baobab, the giant tree, 527 ; Mrs. Livingstone's 



grave under, 628. 

 Barth, Henry, Notes of, 504, 610, 715. 

 Bashikouay ant, the, 598. 

 Basilisk, the, 632. 



Bat, the, 669 ; character and habits, 670 ; the 

 kalong, 670; eaten in Java, 670; the vam- 

 pire, 671 ; horse-shoe bats, 672; small bat of 

 Ceylon, 672. 



Beetles, abundance of in the tropical world, 

 581 ; used for ornament, 592. 



Behemoth ; is he the hippopotamus or the buf 

 falo? 725. 



Bell-bird, or campanero, 647. 



Bete-rouge, the, 687. 



Birds: the condor, 480, 498, 693; the asfir, 

 609; the ostrich, 612, 663; the secretary, 

 624 ; the adjutant, 625 ; general view of bird- 

 life, 645; the toucan, 646; the humming- 

 bird, 647 ; cotingas, 647 ; the campanero, 

 647 ; manakins, 648 ; cock of the rock, 648 ; 

 troopials, 648; orioles, 649; cassiques, 6?9; 

 the mocking-bird, 649; the toropishu, 650; 

 the tunqui, 650; goatsuckers, 650; the or- 

 gan-bird, 650 ; the cilgero, 650 ; the flamingo, 

 660; the ibis, 651; the jabiru, 651 ; the ja- 

 cana, 661 ; the rhinoceros horn bill, 651 ; 

 sun-birds, 652; honey-eaters, 652; ocel- 

 lated turkey. 662; the "lyre-bird, 653; birds 

 of paradise, 653 ; the bower-bird, 656 ; the 

 talegalla, 656; the coppersmith 657; the 



devil-bird, 667; the tailor-bird. 658; the 

 grosbeak, 658 ; the korwe, 658 ; weaving 

 birds, 6o9; parrots, 659; cockatoos, 662; 

 macaws, 662; paroquets, 663; the ostrich, 

 663; rheas, 667; the cassowary, 667; the 

 emu, 668; the condor, his character and 

 flight, 693 ; mode of capturing, 694 ; the car- 

 rion vulture, 695 ; the harpy eagle, 696 ; the 

 sociable vulture, 696 ; the bacha, 697 ; the 

 fishing eagle, 697; the sparrow-hawk, 698; 

 the secretary eagle, 698. 



Boars, wild, chase of, 735. 



Boas, 620; the boa constrictor, 620; water 

 boas, 600, 620. 



Bogota, table land of, 495. 



Bolas, the, 502. 



Bon, M., his spider-thread stockings, 614. 

 Borelo, or black rhinoceros, the, 721. 

 Bo-tree, or Pippul, 630. 

 Bower-bird, the, 656. 



Brazil, Agassiz's estimate of its future, 623 ; 

 coffee-culture in, 563 ; ants of, 601 ; toads of, 

 633. 



Bread-fruit, 650. 



Bufo gigas, or great toad of Brazil, 633. 

 Buildings of ants, 602. 

 Bushropes, or lianas, 615, 535. 

 Butterflies, 682. 

 Butterfly, the leaf, 583. 



C. 



Cacao, or chocolate, 667. 

 Cactuses, 533. 



Camel, the, 728 ; ships of the land, 728 ; forma- 

 tion of its foot, 729; its food, 729; its water- 

 pouch, 729 ; its hump, and the uses of it, 

 729; its desert home, 729; the camel and its 

 master, 730; training for robbery, 730; en- 

 durance of thirst, 730; distinction between 

 the camel and the dromedary, 730 ; caravan 

 journeys, 73b ; changes from servitude, 731 ; 

 effects upon its temper, 731 ; excuses for its 

 ill-temper, 731. 



Cameleopard. (See Giraffe.) 



Campanero, or bell-bird, 647. 



Cassava, or Mandioca, 654. 



Cassia. (See Cinnamon.) 



Cassiques, 649. 



Cassowary, the, 667. 



Cattle and horses in America, 500. 



Cay men. (See Alligators.) 



Ceiba-tree, the, 531. 



Cerastes, the, 620. 



Ceylon, Game in, 505; parasitic and thorny 

 plants of, 536; Cinnamon cuhure, 573; ants 

 of, 596; serpents of, 616; alligators of, 640; 

 turtles of, 644 ; birds of, 667 ; monkeys of, 

 686; elephants of, 713; taming elephants, 

 717; Panickeas, or elephant-catchers, 718; 

 their mode of capturing the elephant, 718; 

 elephant establishments of the government, 

 721. 



Chacma, or pig-faced baboon, 687. 

 Chaco, the grand, of Paraguay, 502. 

 Chameleon, the, 630. 

 Charming, by serpents, 621. 

 Chegoes or jiggers, 585. 

 Cheetah, or hunting leopard, the, 708. 

 Chelonians, or tortoises, 642. 

 Chimpanzee, the, 677. 



