INDEX 



551 



Birds, Himalayan types of, in Celebes, 

 462 



list of, land-birds of Celebes, 465 

 of New Zealand, 476, 482 

 wingless, of New Zealand, 476 

 Blackburn, Mr. T., on the beetles of the 



Sandwich Islands, 317a 

 Blakiston and Pryer on birds of Japan, 

 396 



Blanford, Mr. W. T., on small effect of 



marine denudation, 225 

 Blanford, Mr. H. F., on former connec- 

 tion of Africa and India, 426 

 Blocks, travelled and perched, 109 

 Blue magpies, range of, 15 

 Borneo, geology of, 375 

 mammalia of, 376 

 birds of, 378 



affinities of fauna of, 380 

 Borneo and Asia, resemblance of, 6 

 Borneo and Java, 373 

 Boulder-beds of the carboniferous forma- 

 tion, 201 



Boulder clays of East of England, 118 

 Bovidse, 29 



Brady, Mr. H. B., on habitat of globi- 



gerinse, 92 

 Braithwaite, Dr. R., on peculiar British 



mosses, 365 

 Britain, probable climate of, with winter 



in a helion, 156 

 British birds, range of, 34-38 

 British Columbia, interglacial warm 



periods in, 121 

 British fauna and flora, peculiarities of, 



370 



British Isles, recent changes in, 332 

 proofs of former elevation of, 334 

 submerged forests of, 335 

 buried river channels of, 836 

 last union of, with continent, 337 

 why poor in species, 338 

 peculiar birds of, 339 

 fresh- water fishes of, 340 

 peculiar insects of, 344 

 peculiar Lepidoptera of, 846(X 

 peculiar Coleoptera of, 351 

 peculiar Trichoptera of, 355 

 peculiar land and fresh -water shells 

 of, 354 



peculiarities of the flora of, 360 

 peculiar mosses and Hepaticas of, 366 

 British mammals as indicating a zoologi- 

 cal region, 33 

 BuUer, Sir W. L., on the New Zealand 



rat, 475 

 Buried river-channels, 336 

 Buteo solitarius, 314 



Butterflies of Celebes, peculiar shape of, 

 463 



Butterflies, peculiar British, 346a. 



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Caddis-flies peculiar to Britain, 355 

 Csecilia, species of in the Seychelles, 432 

 wide distribution of, 432 



Cseciliadse, 28 



Callithea Leprieuri, distribution of, 18 



Callithea sapphira, 18 



Camels as destroyers of vegetation, 296 



former wide distribution of, 420 

 Camelus, 17, 27 

 Campanula vidalil, 261 

 Canis, 17, 26 



Carabus, numerous species of, 42 

 Carboniferous boulder-beds, 201 



warm Arctic climate, 201 

 Carnivora in Madagascar, 417 

 Carpenter, Dr., on habitat of globigerinse, 

 92 



Carpenter, Mr. Edward, on Mars and 



glacial periods, 164 

 Carduus marianus in New Zealand, 515 

 Carpodacus purpureus and P. californicus, 



68 



Castor, 17 

 Casuarina, 185 



in India, 527 

 Cause of extinction, 63 

 Caves of Glamorganshire, 336 

 Cebiba>, overlapping genera of, 29 

 Celebes, physical features of, 451 



map of islands around, 452 



zoology of, 455 



derivation of mammals of, 456 

 birds of, 457 



not a continental island, 461 

 insect peculiarities of, 462 

 Himalayan types in, 462 

 peculiarity of butterflies of, 463 

 list of land-birds of, 465 

 Centetida3, 27 



Centetidaj, formerly inhabited Europe, 

 420 



Central America, mixed fauna of, 53 

 Ceratodus, or mud-fish, 69 

 Cervus, 17, 26 



Chalk a supposed oceanic formation, 89 



Chalk at Oahu, analysis of, 90 



Chalk, analysis of, 91 



Chalk mollusca indicative of shallow 



water, 93 

 Chalk sea, extent of in Europe, 93 

 Chalk-formation, land-plants found in, 



94 



deposited in an inland sea, 93 

 of Faxoe an ancient coral reef, 94 

 modern formation of, 95 

 supposed oceanic origin of, erro- 

 neous, 96 



"Challenger" soundings and shore-de- 

 posits, 86 



" Challenger" ridge in the Atlantic, 101 

 Chameleons very abundant in Mada- 

 gascar, 430 

 Chamois, distribution of, 13 

 Changes of land and sea, 83 

 Chasmorhynchus, distribution of, 24 

 C. nudicollis, 24 

 C. tricarunculatus, 24 

 C. variegatus, 24 

 C. niveus, 24 

 Cldlomenus lunata, 300 

 Chinchillas, 26 



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