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INDEX.
- 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
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LONDON WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS. STAMF0RD STREET.
