Part 34

Portraits on sculptured pipes from mounds, 295

Prosthemadera in the Auckland Isles, 239

Protective colours, theory of, 187

Psittacula diopthalma, sexual difference of colour of, 178

Pterylography, 151

Pyramid, the Great, 298 the Great, indicates an earlier civilization, 300

Pythons, 115

Rabbits, why white-tailed, 197

Rainbow, how described by ancient writers, 245

Rainfall at London and Batavia, diagram of, 15

Rainfall, greatest recorded at Batavia, 24

Ramsay, Prof. on ancient fresh-water deposits, 313

Raphia tædigera, 41

Rattan-palms, 42

Recognition aided by colour, 196

Reed, Mr., on humming-birds in Juan Fernandez, 146 Mr. Edwyn C., on insects of Juan Fernandez, 270

Reptiles, 111

Reptiles of oceanic islands, 309

Rhamphococcyx, 105

Salvin, Mr., on the pugnacity of humming-birds, 134, 214

Saüba ant, 85

Saxifraga longifolia, 233

S. cotyledon, 233

S. oppositifolia, 233

Scorpions, 97

Screw-pines, 49

Scythrops, 105

Seeds, how protected, 226