INDEX

Azara on habits of carrion-
hawks, 56

on hydrophobia, 358
on new plants springing

up, 118

on ostrich-eggs, 90

on rain in La Plata, 46
on range of carrion-
hawks, 58

BACHMAN, Mr, on carrion-
hawks, 185
Bahia Blanca, 73-104
Bahia, Brazil, II

scenery of, 500
Balbi on coral reefs, 475
Bald Head, Australia, 454
Ballenar, Chile, 353
Banda Oriental, 41, 141
Bank's Hill, 211
Barking-bird, 291
Basaltic platform of Santa
Cruz, 180

Bathurst, Australia, 436
Bats, vampire, 21
Bay of Islands,

Zealand, 421

Beads, hill of, 148

New

Bug of Pampas, 334

Buildings, Indian, 360, 361,

373

Fuego, 218

Beech-trees, 237, 283
Beetles alive in sea, 158
at St Julian, 169
dung-feeders, 495
in brackish water, 21
on a fungus, 32
Behring's Straits, fossils of,

290

fossil allied to, 81
Cape Horn, 212
Cape of Good Hope, 87
Caracara, or Carrancha, 54
Cardoon, beds of, 118, 147
Carmichael, Capt., 405
Carrion-hawks, 54, 119, 182
Casarita, 94

Castro, Chiloe, 280, 295
Casts of trees, 455

Casuchas, 339

Cathartes, 58, 185, 286

Cats good to eat, 116
run wild, 119, 498
scratch trees, 135
- cruelty to m
mice
199
Cattle, effects their
grazing on the vegetation,
117

killed by great
droughts, 132, 145
know each other, 144
curious breed of, 144
waste of, 151

wild at the Falkland
Islands, 189, 190
Cauquenes, hot springs of,
265

Causes of extinction

of

species among mammalia,

Ventana, 106
in Cordillera, 323
Conurus, 137,
Convicts of Mauritius, 489
Convicts, condition of, in
New South Wales, 449
Cook, Capt., on kelp, 240
Copiapo, river and valley of,
353, 365

town of, 358
Coquimbo, 346

Coral formations, 406, 457-
487

stinging species of, 469
dead, 466, 484
Corallines, 202
Corcovado, clouds on, 28
volcano, 294
Cordillera, appearance
246, 255, 320

of,

different productions on
east and west side, 330
passage of, 318
structure of valleys, 318
- geology of, 323, 336
rivers of, 320
of Copiapo, 360
Cormorant catching fish, 199
Corral, where animals are
slaughtered at Buenos
Ayres, 120

-Chonos Archipelago, 283 Coseguina, eruption of, 295

formations, 348

Deinornis, 201, 432
Deserts, 351, 363
Desmodus, 21

Despoblado, valley of, 359
Dieffenbach on Auckland
Island, 246, 440
Diodon, habits of, 13
Discoloured sea, 14

Diseases from miasma, 370,
438

Distribution of mammalia in
America, 129

of animals on opposite
sides of Cordillera, 331
of frogs, 386

of fauna of Galapagos,

392
Dobrizhoffer on ostriches, 92
on a hailstorm, 114
Docks, imported, 432
Dogs, shepherd, 149
D'Orbigny, Travels in South
America, 77, 92, 118, 129,
149, 167
Doris, eggs of, 201
Doubleday, Mr, on a noise
made by a butterfly, 33
Drigg, lightning tubes at,

60

Droughts, great, in Pampas,

132

Dryness of St Jago, 2

296

of Chiloe, 245, 277, 279,

of Valdivia, 301

of New Zealand, 431
of Australia, 437
Fossil mammalia, 80, 126
154, 172

earthenware, 375
Fox of the Falkland Islands,
194

of Chiloe, 282
Friendly Archipelago, 486
Frogs, noises of, 28
Frogs, bladders of, 388

and toads not found on
oceanic islands, 386
Frozen soil, 88, 249
Fruit-trees, southern limit
of, 245
Fucus giganteus, 241
Fuegians, 206-237
Fulgurites, 58
Fungus, edible, 237
Furnarius, 94

GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO,
377; natural history of,
382

- belongs to American
Zoology, 382, 395
Gale of wind, 218, 364
Gallegos River, fossil bones
at, 171

Gallinazo, 57, 185

Gauchos, 42, 112, 150, 189.
196

character of, 155
live on meat, 116
Gay, M., on floating islands,
267

-on shells in brackish

516

Geographical distribution of] Hailstorm, 114

fauna of Galapagos, 392
Geology of St Jago, 5

of St Paul, 8

of Bahia Blanca, 80
of Pampas, 128
of Brazil, 12
of Cordillera, 322, 336
of Patagonia, 170, 180
Georgia, climate of, 249
Geospiza, 384, 399
Gill, Mr, on an upheaved
river-bed, 362
Gillies, Dr, on the Cor-
dillera, 327.
Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego,
225, 247

in lat. 46° 40', 248
in Cordillera, 329
Glow-worms, 29

Goats, destructive to vegeta-
tion at St Helena, 494
bones of, 167

Goitre, 318

Gold-mines of Yaquil, Chile,

267

Gold-washing, 268

Good Success Bay, 205
Gossamer spider, 159

Gould, Mr, on the calodera,

Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces
of Coquimbo, 347
Hare, varying, 45
Head, Capt., on thistle-beds,

118

Height of snow-line on Cor-
dillera, 246

Henslow, Prof., on potatoes,
288

-on plants of Keeling
Island, 460
Hermit crabs, 462
Hill emitting a noise, 365
Himantopus, 113
Hogoleu barrier-reef, 475
Holes made by a bird, 89
Holman on drifted seeds,
459
Holuthuriæ

coral, 470

feeding

on

Hooker, Sir J., on the car-
doon, 118

Dr J. D., on the kelp,

-on Galapageian plants,
396, 401

Horner, Mr, on a calcareous
deposit, 9
Horse-fly, 169

Horses difficult to drive,
109

excrement

on

drop
paths, 118
killed by great drought,

133

tropics, 31

on frozen soil, 88

on hybernation, 98

on potatoes, 288
on earthquakes

rain, 355

Hyla, 28

Infusoria in dust in the
Atlantic, 5, 14
in the sea, 161

in Pampas, 82, 129
Patagonia, 170

in white paint, 222
in coral mud, 470
in tuff at Ascension,
499
Insects first colonists of St
Paul's Rocks, 10
Insects blown out to sea,
158

402

of Patagonia, 169, 331
of Tierra del Fuego, 239
of Galapagos, 385, 396,

of Keeling Island, 461
of St Helena, 495
Instincts of birds, 93, 403
Iodine with salt at Iquique,
367
Iquique, 366
Iron, oxide of, on rocks, 12
Islands, oceanic, volcanic, 8
floating, 267
Antarctic, 249
low, 406, 474

JACKSON, Col., on frozen
snow, 329

Jajuel, mines of, 261
Jaguar, 49, 116, 134
James Island, Galapagos
Archipelago, 381
Juan Fernandez, volcano
of, 314

flora of, 396

191

Leaves, fall of, 236

fossil, 453

Leeks in New Zealand, im-
ported, 432
Lepus Magellanicus, 193
Lesson, M., on the scissor-
beak, 137

on rabbit of the Falk-
lands, 193

Lichen on loose sand, 368
Lichtenstein on ostriches, 91
Lightning storms, 60

tubes, 58

Lima, 369, 372

elevation of a river near,

363
Lime changed by lava into
crystalline rock, 6
Limnæ in brackish water, 82
Lion-ant, 446
Lizard, 96

marine species of, 390
Lizards, transport of, 386
Llama or guanaco, habits of,
165
Locusts, 333
Longevity of species in
mollusca, 82

Lorenzo, San, island of, 373
Low archipelago, 406
Lund, M., on antiquity of
man, 362

Lund and Clausen on fossils

of Brazil, 130, 172

Luxan, 333

Madrina, or godmother of a
troop of mules, 319
Magdalen Channel, 242
Magellan, Strait of, 232
Malcolmson, Dr, on hail,
115

Maldiva atolls, 472, 483
Maldonado, 38
Mammalia, fossil, 80, 126,

Mice, how transported, 290,
383

different on opposite
side of Andes, 331

of the Galapagos, 382
of Ascension, 498
Millepora, 469

Mills for grinding ores, 268
Mimosa, 25

Mimus, 53, 399, 401
Miners, condition of, 262,
343, 350, 369
Mines, 261, 321, 343, 350,
367

how discovered, 322
Missionaries at New
Zealand, 419

Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys
of Australia, 442
Mocking-bird, 53, 399, 401
Molina, omits description of
certain birds, 273
Molothrus, habits of, 52
Monkeys with prehensile
tails, 27

Monte Video, 39, 141
Moresby, Capt., on a great
crab, 469

on coral reefs, 484
Mount Sarmiento, 234, 242
Tarn, 235

Mountains, elevation of, 313
Movements in granular
matter, 98
Mud, chalk-like, 470

disturbed
quake, 310
Mules, 319

by earth

Muniz, Signor, on niata
cattle, 144

Murray, Mr, on spiders, 160
Mylodon, 82, 130, 154
Myopotamus, Coypus, 290

NEGRESS with goitre, 318
Negro, Rio, 62, 146
lieutenant, 75
New Caledonia, reef of, 477,
483

New Zealand, 421
Niata cattle, 144
Noises from a hill, 365
Noses, ceremony of pressing,