INDEX. 
507 
Preparation of specimens, 34. 78. 
235. 
Prickly-pear, 27. 
Prickly-pole, 253. 
Prospects, fine, 31. 36. 62. 90. 93. 
122, 123. 141. 149. 212. 301. 
R. 
Rabbits, wild, 441. 
Radonda, 17. 
Rains, 203. 
Rats, a new species of, 444 : the 
Price, 445 : what and whence, 
446 : the Caribbean, 449 : 
Long’s Field rats, 450. 
Red hairy-tailed Bat, 279. 
Ride to Content, 86 : to Kilmar- 
nock, 121. 
Ringtail Pallette-tip, 254. 
Robin’s River, 87. 
Rorqual, 1. 
Rose of Jamaica, 68. 
S. 
Sabito, insects of, 98 ; plants of, 
99. 239. 
Savanna-le-Mar, 37 : market at, 
57. 
Scorpions, 164: comb of, 165: 
sting of, 490. 
Seal of Pedro Kays, 307. 
Sea-side Grape, 98. 
Sea-slug, 55. 
Sea-weeds, 23. 
Shark, 241. 
Sheathclaw Gecko, habits of, 
178: its singular voice, 180: 
sloughing, 181; reproduction 
of the tail, 182 : eggs, 184 : 
food, 185. 
Shells, marine, 24. 32. 56. 59. : 
terrestial, 30. 65. 96. 121. 124. 
126. 128. 301. 
Shore-plants, 26. 
Silk-cotton tree 271 : its appear- 
ance, 272: spurs, 272: gigan- 
tic size, 273: cotton, 274: 
superstition, 275: peculiarity 
of foliation, 275 492. 
Sipunculi, 56. 
Snakes, 228. 262. 314. 324. 371. 
374. 384. 
Snappers, 209. 
Snipe-fish, 2. 
Soap-berries, 279. 
Sole, new species of, 52. 
Solitaire, 64. 139. 167. 302. 
Songs of birds, 154. 166. 
Southern Cross, 41. 
Spiders, 165: brush-footed, 28. 
239: trap-door, 115: their 
nest, 119: mode of construc- 
tion, 116: air-holes, 118: sil- 
ver-bodied, 463 : web of, 464. 
Spirula, 7. 
Sponges, 51. 
Spotted-chinned Snake, 384. 
Sprat, 289. 
Star-apple, 91. 258. 
Star-fishes, 55. 58. 
Starlight at sea, 13. 
Starvegut Bay, plants and insects 
of, 491. 
St. Thomas, 485. 
Sugar-cane insects, 450: borer- 
weevil, 451: its depredations, 
452: antidotes, 453: palm- 
weevil, 455 : borer-moth, 455 : 
cane-aphis, 457: cane-fly, 459 : 
termites, 459. 
Swimming- crabs, 21. 
T. 
Tanager, scarlet, 304. 
Termites, 118: voracity of, 120: 
nests of, 119. 460; inhabited 
by other animals, 120 : used 
for fuel, 120. : destructive to 
sugar-cane, 459. 
Tichicro, 91. 
Tickiticky described, 84. 
Toad, Agua, 425. (See Agua). 
Tody, 133. 
Tortoise, a doubtful native, 421 : 
habits of one in Antigua, 423 : 
eggs of, 425. 
Towing-net, 6 : its success, 7.21. 
Tree-ferns, 68: compared with 
palms, 69 ; another species, 
137. 
