INDEX 
Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 36 
Aborigines banished from Van Diemen’s 
Land, 475 
of Australia, 430 to 458 
Abrolhos Islands, 9, 14 
Absence of trees in Pampas, 48 
Aconcagua, volcano of, 269, 294, 312 
Actinia, stinging species, 494 
Africa, Southern part desert, yet sup¬ 
ports large animals, 89 
Ageronia feronia, 39 
Agouti, habits of, 72 
Ague common in Peru, 389 
Albemarle Island, 401, 420 
Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14 
on Holothuriae, 494 
Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, 367 
stratified, in Andes, 333 
Amblyrhynchus, 401, 411 
Anas, species of, 210 
Animalculse. See Infusoria 
Antarctic islands, 263 
Antipodes, 444 
Ants at Keeling Island, 485 
in Brazil, 36 
Antuco volcano, 311 
Apires, or miners, 364 
Aplysia, 6, 493 
Apple-trees, 318 
Aptenodytes demersa, 209 
Araucanian Indians, 66 
Areas of alternate movements in the 
Pacific and Indian oceans, 480 
Armadilloes, habits of, 100 
fossil animals allied to, 137, 164 
Arqueros mines, 369 
Arrow-heads, ancient, 109, 381 
Ascension, 522, 538 
Aspalax, blindness of, 53 
Athene cunicularia, 73, 132 
Atolls, 490, 495 
Attagis, 98 
Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 124 
Audubon, M., on smelling-power of 
carrion-hawks, 195 
Australia, 459 
Australian barrier, 499 
group of weapons, 480 
Ava (Macropiper methysticum), 428, 
436 
Azara on spiders, 39 
on rain in La Plata, 49 
on habits of carrion-hawks, 58 
on range of carrion-hawks, 60 
on a thunder-storm, 65 
on ostrich-eggs, 95 
on bows and arrows, no 
on new plants springing up, 125 
on great droughts, 142 
on hydrophobia, 378 
Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 195 
Bahia Blanca, 50, 70, 77 to no 
fossil tooth of horse from, 138 
Bahia, Brazil, 11 
scenery of, 526 
Bajada, 136 
Balbi on coral reefs, 499 
Bald Head, Australia, 479 
Ballenar, Chile, 373 
Banda Oriental, 48, 152, 158, 186 
Banks’s Hill, 221 
Barking-bird, 307 
Barrier-reef, Bolabola, 498 
reefs, sections of, 500 
Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 182 
Bathurst, Australia, 470 
Batrachian reptiles, 101 
Bats, vampire, 22, 23 
Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 444 
