590 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Neotropical region, fresh-water fishes of, iL 12 
summary of vertebrates of, ii, 13 
insects of, ii. 13 
land-shells of, ii. 19 
marine shells of, ii. 20 
summary of past history of, ii, 80 
tables of distribution of animals of, ii. 84 
Neotropical sub-regions, ii. 21 
Neoziphius, ii. 208 
Nephcecetes, ii. 320 
Neptis , ii. 474 
NERITIDiE, ii. 510 
Neritina, ii. 510 
Nerophis, ii. 457 
Nesoceleus, ii. 303 
NesocicMa, ii. 256 
Nesodon, S. American Pliocene, i. 147 
Nesomys, ii. 230 
Nesonetta, ii. 364 
Nesopsar, ii. 282 
Nessia, ii. 399 
Nestor, ii. 329 
NESTORIBiE, ii, 329 
Nettapus, ii, 363 
Nezisterophis, ii. 376 
Newberry, Dr. , .on Cretaceous and Tertiary 
floras of N. America, ii. 155 
Newton, Professor, on position of Menuridce 
and Atrichiidm, i. 95 
on birds of Iceland, i. 198 
on Neotropical sub-regions, ii. 25 
on genus Camptolcemus, ii, 39 
on peculiar genera of Nearetic and Neo- 
tropical birds, ii. 118 
on family Panuridce, ii. 262 
Newtonia, ii. 270 
Newts, ii. 413 
New Caledonia, birds of, i. 444 
New Guinea, zoology of, i. 409 
mammalia of, i. 410 
birds of, i. 411 
peculiarities of its ornithology, i. 413 
illustration of ornithology of, i. 414 
reptiles and amphibia of, i. 415 
insects of, i. 416 
New Zealand, objections to making a primary 
zoological region, i. 62 
extinct birds of, i. 164 
sub-region, description of, i. 449 
compared with British Isles, i. 449 
mammalia of, t 451 
islets of, i. 453 
illustration of ornithology of, i. 455 
reptiles of, i. 456 
amphibia of, i. 457 
fresh-water fish of, i. 457 
insects of, L 458 
Longicoms of, i. 458 
Myriapoda of, i. 458 
land-shells of, i. 459 
ancient fauna of, i. 460 
origin of fauna of, i. 460 
poverty of insects in, t 462 
relations of insect-fauna and flora of, i. 472 
Nicator, ii. 272 
Nicobar Islands, their zoological relations, 
i. 332 
Nightingale, migration of the, i. 21 
Night-jars, ii. 319 
Nigidius, ii. 493 
Niyrita , ii. 286 
Nilaus, ii 272 
Niltava , ii. 270 
Ninox, ii. 350 
Nisaetus, ii. 348 
Nisoides, ii. 348 
Nisoniades, ii. 480 
NOCTILIONIDJE, ii. 184 
Nocturnal tree-snakes, ii. 379 
Nonnula, ii. 311 
Norbea, ii. 397 
Norfolk Island, birds of, i. 453 
North Africa, zoological relations of, i. 202 
North America, remarks on Post-Pliocene, 
fauna of, i 130 
Post-Pliocene fauna of, partly derived from 
S. America, i 131 
extinct birds of, i. 163 
Northern Hemisphere, zoological importance 
of, ii. 155 
NOTACANTHI, ii. 437 
Notaden, ii. 415 
Notharctos, N. American Tertiary, i. 133 
Nothocerus, ii. 344 
Nothocrax, ii. 343 
Nothoprocta, ii. 344 
Nothura, ii. 344 
NOTIDANIDjSE, ii. 461 
Notiophilus, ii. 489 
Notodela, ii. 259 
Notoglanis, ii. 443 
Notonomus, ii. 490 
NOTOPTERIDiE, it 455 
Notopholis, ii. 391 
Notornis of New Zealand, i. 455 
Notornis, it 352 
Nototherium, Australian Post -Tertiary, t 157 
it 251 
Nototrema, ii. 418 
Noturus, ii. 442 
Nucifraga, ii 273 
NUCLEO-BRANCHIATA. ii 531 
Nucras, it 391 
Numenius, ii. 353 
NUMIDINjE, ii. 340 
Numida, ii. 340 
Nuria , ii. 452 
Nuthatches, ii. 265 
Nutria, ii. 199 
Nyctala, it 350 
Nyctalatinus, ii. 350 
Nyctalemon, ii. 4S2 
Nydalops, ii. 350 
Nyctea, ii. 350 
Nydereutes, it 197 
Nyderis, ii. 182 
Nydibius, ii. 319 
Nydicorax, it 359 
Nydidromius, ii. 320 
Nydiomis, ii. 312 
Nydipitkecus, ii. 175 
Nydiprogne, it 320 
Nymphalis , ii. 474 
NYMPHALIDiE, it 473 
Nymphicus, ii. 325 
Nymphidium, ii. 476 
Ochetobius, ii. 452 
Ochotherium, in Brazilian caves, t 145 
ii. 245 
Ochthceca , ii. 100 
Ochthodiceta, ii. 100 
Octodontidm, S. American Pliocene, i 147 
OCTODONTIDJE, ii. 237 
Ododon , ii. 238 
OCTOPODIDiE, ii. 505 
Ocyalus , ii. 2S2 
Ocydromus, it 352 
Ocyphaps, ii. 333 
