INDEX 
55i 
Vultur aura, 60, 192, 303 
Waders, first colonists of distant islands, 
405 
Waimate, New Zealand, 452 
Waiomio, 456 
Walckenaer on spiders, 39 
Walleechu tree, 71 ' 
Wasps preying on spiders and killed by, 
37 to 39 
Water-hog (Hydrochserus capybara), 51 
Water-serpents, 103 
Water sold at Iquique, 386 
Water, fresh, floating on salt, 41, 487 
Waterhouse, Mr., on Rodents, 51, 485 
on the niata ox, 156 
on the insects of Tierra del Fuego, 
253 
of Galapagos, 406, 417 
on the terrestrial mammals of Gala¬ 
pagos, 403 
Waves caused by fall of ice, 237, 260 
from earthquakes, 326, 330 
Weather, connection with earthquakes, 
375 
Weatherboard, N.S. Wales, 465 
Weeds in New Zealand, imported, 455 
Weight of large quadrupeds, 88 
Wellington, Mount, 477 
Wells, ebbing and flowing, 487 
at Iquique, 388 
West Indies, banks of sediment, 468 
zoology of, 143 
coral-reefs of, 502, 5 10 
Whales, oil from, 17 
leaping out of water, 236 
White, Mr., on spiders, 36 
Whitsunday Island, 495, 497 
Wigwam cove, 223, 228 
Wigwams of Fuegians, 151, 224 
Williams, Rev. Mr., 448 
on infectious disorders, 452, 463 
Winds, dry, in Tierra del Fuego, 245 
at the Cape Verds, 3 
on Cordillera, 345 
cold, on Cordillera, 384 
Winter’s Bark, 250, 299 
Wolf at the Falklands, 204 
Wollaston Island, 224, 244 
Wood, Captain, on the Agouti, 72 
Woolly a, 239 
Yaquil gold mines, 283 
Yeso, Valle del, 341 
York Minster, 215, 227, 241, 294 
ZONOTRICHIA, 54 
Zoological provinces of N. and S. 
America, 140 
Zoology of Galapagos, 403 
of Tierra del Fuego, 251 
of Chonos Islands, 306 
of Keeling Island, 485 
of St. Helena, 520 
Zoophytes, 104, 211 
at Falkland Islands, 210 
Zorillo, or skunk, 83 
THE END. 
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