Crax, 121 Indians, 155 Scorpions, 22, 174 Squatters, 13 Season, dry, 2; wet, I Stamps, 93 Seemann, Mr., 374, 375 iStaphi/linidce, 81 Segovia, townships of, 254 Statues, 165; mutilation of, 167; Selection, artificial and natural, stories of, on banks of the Rio difference between, 207 Mico, 53 Self-government of the small In- Steamboats on San Juan, 41 dian towns, 2S2 Steamers, river, 42 Seripiqui river, 15 Sterility, 206 Sharks, 3 Still, native, 233 Sharp, Dr. D., on water-beetles, Stone axes, 154 332 hatchet, 41 Shells, 331; of the Caribbean pro- implements, 32, 41 vince, 264; of the Panamic pro- maize-grinders, 165, 293 vince, 264 Storekeepers, Nicaraguan, 62 Silkworms, 183 Stove, Indian, 244 Silver, 88 Strabo, 367 mine, 258 Sugantia, 140 Simpson, Dr. J. H., 76 Sugar, 4, 56, 32S, 342, 386 Siphonia dastica, 33 cane, 56, 67 Sisitote, 50, 328, 159 plantations, 56 Skunk, the, 174, 249, 320 Sugarloaf hills, 179 Slavery, 64 Suiti, 40 Snakes, 159 Sulphate of silver, 89 Social flocks of birds, 122 Sulphide of copper, 89 trees, 237 iron, 89 Sodium used in amalgamation, 93, Sun -dews, 184 94 Superheated steam in rock, 98 action of, on mercurj', 94 Swallows, 159 Soldiers, Nicaraguan, 63 Sweet potatoes, 70 Solcnopsis, s}^., 181, 226 Swordsmen, 293 Sdntuli, 28s Sivietonia mahogani, 34 Sorby, Mr. H. C, on microscopical cavities in quartz, 97 SouS^riere, the, 351 Spaniards, invasion of Nicaragua Tabanus, 313 by, 359; cruelties practised bv, Tablason, 193 361 Tccniotts scala7-is (Fabr.), 69, iSi

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Talcose scliists, 253, 260 Trogon rcsplendcns, 247 Tatiagers, 6, 35, 122 Trumpet tree, 222 Tapir, 144 Tschudi, on indigenous dogs of Tarantula spider, 323 tropical America, 206 Techichi, the, 206 Tufas, volcanic, 346 Termites, 181 Tylor, Mr. Alfred, on the reduc- TiialEE, the god of rain, 168 of the level of the sea, 266 Thai uremia vcnusta, 138 Tylor, E. B., on the Couvade, 368, Thccliv, 299 369; his " Early History of Thcobroma cacao, 1 16 Mankind," 366, 36S, 369; on Theopompus, on a large island whirlwinds in Mexico, 302 outside of Europe, Asia, and

Africa, 270 Thunderbolts, 154 Tibareni of Pontus, 367, 369 Ubaldo, San, 45, 374 Ticks, 209 Ulleros, 33, 37, 39, 41 Tierrabona, 299 Ulli, 33 Tiger-beetles, 127, 159, 299 IJnio, 331 Tillandsia, 6, 183 Urania leilus, 153 TUlandsia \isneoides, 237, 289 Utopia, 29 Ti metes, 108 Timetcs chiron, 152 Tinamus, 121 Tiste, 293, 326 Vacqukros, 189, 191 Tod}', the, 291 Valleys, 85; denudation of, 86 Toledo, 161 excavation of, 85 Toltecs, 363 Value of theore atSanto Domingo, the cultivators of maize, 55 88 Tomatoes, yo Vanilla planifolia, 57)7° Tongue of humming-bird, 1 13 Vegessima, La, 4, 239 woodpecker, 114 Velasquez, Don Francisco, 78 Tortillas, 56 Vertebrata, 28 Totagalpa, 253, 27S Viduas, 123 Toucans, 6, 22, 35, 122, 124 Vieni par aca, 290 beak of, 197 Vincent, St., volcano in, 350 Trachyte, 299 Canon Kingsley's account of, Trade of Greytown, 4 350-355 winds. 5 Virgin Islands, carved rocks of, 53 Transported boulders, 262 Volcanoes: Caracas, 351; Cosa- Trap-rocks, 96 guina, 350; Masaya, 347, 355; Trappean dykes, 96, 98 San Miguel, 350; St. Vincent, Tree-cactus, 237 530 Tree-ferns, 15 Vultures, 200 Trend of ranges of San Domingo, 86 Trogons, 20, 22, 50, 122, 123, 162 Trogon atricollis, 122 Wallace, A. R., on Avgra'cum caliyatus, 122 sesquipedale, 133; on brightly-elcgans, 162 coloured caterpillars, 320; on females, dull-coloured, 122 the faunas of the Malay archi-melanocephalus (Gould), 50 pelago, 268

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War, not always a curse, 1 7 Women, Nicaraguan, 64

1Wari, 30, 35 Woodlouse, chased by ants, 1 Wasps, 7, 22, 157, 313 Woodlice, 22, 174 attending leaf -hoppers, 228; Woodpeckers, 122, 123 hunting for spiders, 133; kill- tongue of, 114 ing caterpillars, 135; nests of. 290; taking note of place to which they wish to return, 135 Water-bearing plants, 183 XiCALLi, 47 Water-beetles, 174, 331, 33^ Xilonien, 54; feast of, 54 Waterfall near Santo Domingo, Xilotl, 54 107 Xoloitzcuintli, the, 205 of El Salto, 163 Water liana, 232 West Indian cyclones, 306 Westwood, Professor, on nests of Yalaguina, 253, 283

IMygale, 323 Yales, 248 Whirlwinds, 300-307 Yucatan, the cross in, 16S origin of, 301 Yuccas, 70 Whitecap, 13S White-faced monkey, I18-120, 316, 341 Wine-palm, 232 Zeolite. 299 Wolves, 48 Zones, the three, of Nicaragua, 328

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