Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). Through the Brazilian Wilderness. 1914.
Subject Index
| “African Game Trails,” 22 |
| Agassiz, 355 |
| Agouti, 173, 346 |
| Alencarliense, Lieutenant, 270 |
| Alligator, 80 |
| Alva, Duke of, Appendix B, 370 |
| Amarante, Lieutenant, 270, 271 |
| Amazon, 7, 290, 343, 349 |
| Amazonas, Boundary Commission of, 326; 350 |
| Ameghino, Doctor, 28; Appendix A, 365 |
| American Museum of Natural History, 2, 8, 67, 146, 188 |
| Amilcar, Captain, 158, 171, 189, 208, 220, 226, 234, 246, 271; loss of his notes and instruments, 341; arrives at Manaos, 340 |
| Ammunition, Appendix B, 382, 383 |
| Anaconda, 54, 228 |
| Anan&ás River, 187, 238, 247, 319; note, 327 |
| Andes, 6 |
| André, 310 |
| Aneroid, 268, 281, 322 |
| Animals, wild, curious local change in habits of, 29; ignorance of some hunters concerning, 87 |
| Ant-eater, giant, tamandu&á bandeira, 68, 75 |
| Ant-hills, giant, 91, 191, 227 |
| Ants, 164, 251, 306; poisonous, 55, 91, 192; fire-ants, 108, 114, 118, 120, 121, 150; foraging, 166–168, 233, 288; leaf-carrying, 191, 256, 288, 306; giant, 263, 272 |
| Ants, socks and mosquito-netting eaten by, 164, 256, 306 |
| Argentina, 2 |
| Argentine, 9, 26, 32 |
| Aripuanan, the, 284, 285, 298, 325–327, 338–341, 350 |
| Armadillos, 90, 91, 173, 205 |
| Arms, 5, 67, 248; Fox, 67; Springfield rifle, 81, 93; L¨ger, 93, 234; Winchester, 84, 211, 332; Appendix B, 369, 382, 383 |
| Arneberg, Mr., 31 |
| Arrows, 279 |
| Asuncion, 8; leave, 39; 44, 65 |
| Automobile, a querulous traveller in the, 213 |
| Ayolas, the Spanish explorer, 60 |
| Baggage, rearrangement of, 214; cutting down of, 247; further reduction of, 281; final reduction of, 303; personal, Appendix B, 375, 376 |
| Balsa, or ferry, 210, 219 |
| Bandeira, the, 254 |
| Barbados, sail for, 347 |
| Barboso, Senhor, 331 |
| Barilloche, 36 |
| Barometers, Appendix B, 390 |
| Barros, Senhor de, 66, 69 |
| Bates, H. W., 120, 345; Appendix A, 357 |
| Bats, 140; blood-sucking, 172, 173, 239, 240 |
| Bedding, Appendix B, 368 |
| Bees, 211, 252, 257, 259, 263, 264 |
| Belén (formerly Para), 344–347; zoological gardens at, 347 |
| Benedetto, 148, 152, 153 |
| Beriberi, 159, 203, 226, 319 |
| Birds, songs of, 33, 34, 288; bientevido, 35; tyrant flycatchers, 35–37; advertising coloration of, 37; habits of, 37; survival factors in species of, 38; water-fowl, 39, 50, 59, 66, 70, 322; difference in bird fauna, 70; “Jesus Christ,” 74; wealth of bird life, 74; nests of, 74, 344; need for work of careful observer of, 74, 112; ants attack nestling, 92; extraordinary collection of, 92–94; oven-birds, 95; owl, 99, 162, 173; Guan, 101; sickle-billed humming, 108; egrets, 110; toucans, 111, 165, 298; finfoots, 112, herons, 112; troupials, 121; opportunity for study of, 124; parakeets, 124; screamers, 125; curassows, 126, 305; snake, 130; cormorants, 130; spurred lapwing, 130; contrasts in habits between closely allied species of, 130, 131; manakin, 137; 149; whippoor-will, 168; honey-creeper, 169; nunlets, 169; waxbill, 170; trogons, 179; false bell-bird, 179; woodpecker, 205, 253; some new, 217; breeding season of, 218; macaws, 218; old and new kinds of, 218; valuable addition to collection of, 220; unfamiliar, 234, 235; sariema, 236; cotinga, 253; sixty new, 266; four new species of, 278; ant-thrush, 294, 295; 298, 322; jacútinga, 324; trumpeter, 331; few water, 337; hoatzin, archaic type of, 343 |