Azara on habits of carrion- hawks, 56
on hydrophobia, 358 on new plants springing
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
Buildings, Indian, 360, 361,
Beagle Channel, Tierra del Bulimus on desert places,
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,
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
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
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,
Droughts, great, in Pampas,
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
Geographical distribution of] Hailstorm, 114
fauna of Galapagos, 392 Geology of St Jago, 5
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
Gold-mines of Yaquil, Chile,
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,
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
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
drop paths, 118 killed by great drought,
multiplication of, 234 broken in, 120, 150 Horse, powers of swimming of, 142
wild at the Falkland
Islands, 191
fossil, 81, 130 Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 120, 195
Hot springs of Tauquenes,
265 Huacas, 375 Humboldt rocks, 12 on the atmosphere in
on, burnished
tropics, 31
on frozen soil, 88
on hybernation, 98
on potatoes, 288 on earthquakes
rain, 355
on miasma, 370, 438 Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 31
of Chile, 273 Hybernation of animals, 98 374 Hydrocharus capybara, 48 HACHETTE, M., on light- Hydrophobia, 357 ning-tubes, 59
Hymenophallus, 32
IBIS MELANOPS, 165 Ice, prismatic structure of, 329 Icebergs, 187, 225, 248, 252 Incas' bridge, 339 Incrustations on coast rocks, 6,8
Indian fossil remains, 375 Indians, attacks of, 63, 76,
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
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
Luxuriant vegetation not, necessary to support large] animals, 84 Lycosa, 35
Lyell, Mr, on longevity of mollusca, 82
-on change in vegeta- tion, 117 -on fossil horses' teeth,
Lazo, 43, 120, 150, 152, 190, Macrocystis, 248
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
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,
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