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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
