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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, 496 
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, 241 
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. 
Babirusa 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, 869 
Barbarea 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, 246 
Beetles of the Galapagos, 273 
of St. Helena, 286 
of the Sandwich Islands, 305 
Beetles, peculiar British species of, 332 
Bell-birds, distribution of, 23 
Bennett, Mr. A. , on the vegetation of railway 
banks, 482 
Bentham, Mr., on the compositae of the 
Galapagos, 277 
on the compositae of St. Helena, 296 
on the Mascarene compositae, 416 
on Sandwich Island compositae, 308 
Bermuda, 253 
soundings around, 255 
red clay of, 256 
zoology of, 257 
reptiles of, 257 
birds of, 257 
insects of, 260 
land-mollusca of, 260 
flora of, 261 
Bermuda and Azores, comparison of bird- 
faunas of, 258 
Bernicla sandvichensis, 801 
Biological causes which determine distribu- 
tion, 500 
Biological features of Madagascar, 888 
Birchall, Mr. Edwin, on Isle of Man lepi- 
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, 852 
of Java, 357 
of the Philippines, 361 
of Japan, 868 
peculiar to Japan, 869 
peculiar to Formosa, 375 
common to Formosa and India or Ma- 
laya, 478 
of Madagascar, and their teachings, 894 
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, 805 
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, 106 
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, 848 
Boulder-beds of the carboniferous forma- 
tion, 194 
Boulder clays of east of England, 114 
Bovidse, 28 
Brady, Mr. H. B., on habitat of globigerinae, 
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, 820 
fresh-water fishes of, 821 
peculiar insects of, 825 
peculiar Lepidoptera of, 327 
peculiar Coleoptera of, 332 
peculiar Trichoptera of, 837 
peculiar land and fresh-water shells of, 
338 
peculiarities of the flora of, 839 
peculiar mosses and Hepaticae of, 341 
