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style=margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em * Valleys of New South Wales, 437
 * Valparaiso, 252, 313
 * Vampire bat, 22
 * Vapour from forests, 24
 * Van Diemen's Land, 446
 * Vanellus Cajanus, 114
 * Vanessa, flocks of, 158
 * Vanikoro, 469, 471, 475
 * Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, 489
 * on opposite sides of Cordillera, 326
 * luxuriant, not necessary to support large animals, 85
 * Ventana, Sierra, 107
 * Verbena melindres, 40
 * Villa Vicencio, 331
 * Virgularia Patagonica, 99, 202
 * Volcanic bombs, 493
 * islands, 8
 * phenomena, 311
 * Volcanos near Chiloe, 273, 275, 291, 310
 * , their presence determined by elevation or subsidence, 480
 * Vulturaura, 58, 184, 284


 * Waders, first colonists of distant islands, 380
 * Waimate, New Zealand, 421
 * Walckenaer on spiders, 38
 * Walleechu tree, 68
 * Wasps preying on spiders and killed by, 35—38
 * Water-hog, 49
 * Water, sold at Iquique, 362
 * , fresh, floating on salt, 39, 458
 * Waterhouse, Mr., on Rodents, 49, 378
 * on the Niata ox. 146
 * on the insects of Tierra del Fuego, 238
 * of Galalagos, 381, 392
 * Waves, caused by fall of ice, 224, 246
 * from earthquakes, 305, 309
 * Weather, connection with earthquakes, 351
 * Weather-board, N.S. Wales, 437
 * Weeds in New Zealand, imported, 392, 428
 * Weight of large quadrupeds, 87
 * Wellington, Mount, 448
 * Wells, ebbing and flowing, 458
 * at Iquique, 364
 * West Indies, banks of, 439
 * , coral reefs of, 472, 480
 * , zoology of, 132
 * Whales, oil from, 17
 * leaping out of water, 223
 * White, Mr., on spiders, 35
 * Wigwams of Fuegians, 212
 * Williams, Rev., on infectious disorders, 435
 * Winds, dry, in Tierra del Fuego, 231
 * at the Cape Verds, 3
 * , cold, on Cordillera, 360
 * on Cordillera, 323
 * Winter's Bark, 235, 281
 * Wolf at the Falklands, 193
 * Wood, Capt., on the Agouti, 70
 * Woollya, 221


 * Yaquil, 265
 * Yeso, Valle del, 319
 * York Minster, 208


 * Zonotrichia, 52
 * Zoological provinces of N. and S. America, 131
 * Zoology of Galapagos, 377
 * of Keeling Island, 456
 * of Tierra del Fuego, 23G
 * of Chonos Islands, 287
 * of St. Helena, 490
 * Zoophytes, 99
 * at Falkland Islands, 201
 * Zorillo, or skunk, 80