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 * Abbott, Mr., on spiders, 35
 * Aborigines banished from Van Diemen's Land, 447
 * of Australia, 433 to 450
 * Abrolhos, 14
 * Absence of trees in Pampas, 46
 * Aconcagua, volcano of, 253, 291
 * Actinia, stinging species, 464
 * Africa, Southern part desert, yet supports large animals, 85
 * Agouti, habits of, 69
 * Ague common in Peru, 365
 * Albemarle Island, 376
 * Allan, Dr., on Diodon, 14
 * on Holuthuriæ, 465
 * Allurium, saliferous, in Peru, 364
 * , stratified, in Andes, 315
 * Amblyrhynchus, 385, 394
 * Anas, species of, 199
 * Animalculæ. see Infusoria
 * Antarctic islands, 248
 * Antipodes, 417
 * Ants at Keeling island, 456
 * in Brazil, 34
 * Apires, or miners, 340
 * Aplysia, 6
 * Apple-trees, 297
 * Aptenodytes demersa, 199
 * Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific and Indian oceans, 480
 * Armadilloes, habits of, 95
 * , fossil animals allied to, 130, 155
 * Arrow-heads, ancient, 105, 357
 * Ascension, 491
 * Aspalax, blindness of, 52
 * Athene, 70, 125
 * Atolls, 465
 * Attagis, 94
 * Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, 118
 * Audubon, M., on smelling-power of carrion-hawks, 184
 * Australia, 431
 * Australian barrier, 474
 * Azara on spiders, 36, 38
 * on rain in La Plata, 47
 * Azara on range of carrion-hawks, 59
 * on habits of carrion-hawks, 57
 * on a thunder-storm, 61
 * on ostrich-eggs, 91
 * on bows and arrows, 105
 * on new plants springing up, 119
 * on great droughts, 1 33
 * on hydrophobia, 353


 * Bachman, Mr., on carrion-hawks, 185
 * Bahia Blanca, 76 to 105
 * Bahia, Brazil, 11
 * , scenery of, 495
 * Balbi on coral reefs, 470
 * Bald Head, Australia, 450
 * Ballenar, Chile, 349
 * Banda Oriental. 39, 142
 * Banks's Hill, 210
 * Barking-bird, 288
 * Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 180
 * Bathurst, Australia, 442
 * Bats, vampire, 22
 * Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 417
 * Beads', hill of, 149
 * Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 217
 * Beech-trees, 235, 281
 * Beetles alive in sea, 159
 * , dung-feeders, 490
 * at St. Julian, 170
 * in brackish water, 22
 * on a fungus, 32
 * Behring's Straits, fossils of, 132
 * Bell of Quillota, 255
 * Benchuca, 330
 * Berkeley Sound, 188
 * , Rev. J., on Confervæ, 14
 * , on Cyttaria, 236
 * Bibron, M., 381, 385
 * Bien-te-veo, 54
 * Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 378, 394
 * Birds, tameness of, 398
 * Birgos latro, 462
 * Bizcacha, habits of, 70, 124