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INDEX. 



Australian genera of plants in India, 495 

 Australian plants absent from New Zealand, 

 458-460 



none in north temperate zone, 405 

 running wild in Neilgherrie moun- 

 tains, 498 

 Australian region, definition of, 45 



mammals and birds of, 46 

 Australian seeds scattered in New Zealand, 

 476 



Aylward, Captain, on glaciation of South 



Africa, 157 

 Azores, 239 



Azores, absence from, of large-fruited trees 



or shrubs, 251 

 Azores, zoological features of, 240 

 birds of, 241 

 insects of, 244 

 beetles of, 245 

 land-shells of, 247 

 flora of, 248 

 Azores and New Zealand, identical plants 



in both, 480 

 Azorean bird-fauna, origin of, 242 

 Azorean fauna and flora, deductions from, 

 253 



Azorean plants, facilities for the dispersal 

 of, 251 



B. 



Bahirusa alfurus, 427 

 Badgers, 41 



Bahamas contrasted with Florida, 5 

 Baker, Mr., on flora of Mauritius and the 



Seychelles, 411 

 Bali and Lombok, contrasts of, 4 

 Banca, peculiar species of, 86J 

 Barharea 'precox on railway bank, 482 

 Barn-owl, wide range of, 15 

 Barriers to dispersal, 71 

 Bats in Bermuda, 260 

 Bears of Europe and America, 14 

 Beaver of Europe and America, 14 

 Beetles of the Azores, 245 



remote affinities of some of, 243 

 Beetles of the Galapagos, 273 



of St. Helena, 286 



of the Sandwich Islands, 305 

 Beetles, peculiar British species of, 832 

 BeU-birds, distribution of, 23 

 Bennett, Mr. A., on the vegetation of railway 

 banks, 482 



Bentham, Mr., on the composites of the 

 Galapagos, 277 



on the compositje of St. Helena, 296 



on the Mascarene composite, 416 



on Sandwich Island compositse, 308 

 Bermuda, 253 



soundings around, 255 



red clay of, 256 



zoology of, 257 



reptiles of, 257 



birds of, 257 



insects of, 260 



land-moUusca of, 260 



flora of, 261 

 Bermuda and Azores, comparison of bird- 

 faunas of, 258 

 Berniela sandvichensis, 301 

 Biological causes which determine distritu- 

 tion, 500 



Biological features of Madagascar, 368 

 Birchall, Mr. Edwin, on Isle of .Man iepi- 



doptera, 331 

 Birds as plant-dispersers, 79 



Birds as seed-carriers, 250 



common to Great Britain and Japan, 

 368 



common to India and Japan, 370 

 ranges of, 15 

 specific range of, 15 

 dispersal of, 73 

 of the Azores, 241 

 of Bermuda, 257 



of Bermuda and Azores compared, 258 

 of the Galapagos, 270 

 of the Sandwich Islands, 301 

 peculiar to Britain, 320 

 of Borneo, ?52 

 of Java, 357 

 of the Philippines, 361 

 of Japan, 363 

 peculiar to Japan, 369 

 peculiar to Formosa, 375 

 common to Formosa and India or Ma- 

 laya, 478 



of Madagascar, and their teachings, 394 



of Comoro Islands, 400 



of the Seychelles, 401 



of the Mascarene islands, 407 



of islands east and west of Celebes, 425 



of Celebes, 428 



peculiar to Celebes, 429 



of New Zealand, 447, 453 



wingless, of New Zealand, 447 

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



Sandwich Islands, 305 

 Blakiston and Pryer on birds of Japan, 

 368 



Blanchard, M. Emile, on flora of Mada- 

 gascar, 411 

 Bland, Mr., on land-shells of Bermuda, 260 

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



marine denudation, 218 

 Blocks, travelled and perched, 103 

 Blue magpies, range of, 15 

 Borneo, geology of, 350 



mammalia of, 851 



birds of, 352 



insects and land-shells of, 355 



affinities of fauna of, 355 

 Borneo and Asia, resemblance of, 6 

 Borneo and Java, 348 



Boulder-beds of the carboniferous forma- 

 tion, 194 



Boulder clays of east of England, 114 

 Bovidse, 28 



Brady, Mr. H. B., on habitat of globigerinse, 

 90 



Britain, probable climate of with winter in 



aphelion, 151 

 British birds, range of, 34-38 

 British Columbia, interglacial warm periods 



in, 118 



British fauna and flora, peculiarities of, 

 345 



British Isles, recent changes in, 313 

 proofs of former elevation of, 315 

 submerged forests of, 315 

 buried river channels of, 317 

 last union of with continent, 318 

 why poor in species, 318 

 peculiar birds of, 320 

 fresh-water fishes of, 321 

 peculiar insects of, 325 

 peculiar Lepidoptera of, 327 

 peculiar Coleoptera of, 332 

 peculiar Trichoptera of, 337 

 peculiar land and fresh-water shells of, 

 338 



peculiarities of the flora of, 339 

 peculiar mosses and Hepaticse of, 341 



