Port Desire, 202; river of, 135, 207.
Port Famine, 283.

Port St. Julian, 209.

Portillo pass, 386, 392.
Porto Praya, 13.

Potato, wild, 345.

Potrero Seco, 421.

Prairies, vegetation of, 149.

Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 73.

Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 80.

Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 350.
Proctotretus, 124.

Proteus, blindness of, 71.

Protococcus nivalis, 389.

Reefs of coral, 557-576; barrier, 561, 568;
fringing, 564.

Reeks, Mr., analysis of salt, 87; of bones,
192; of salt and shells, 445.
Remains, human elevated, 445.
Remedies of the Gauchos, 159.

Rengger on the horse, 283.

Reptiles absent in Tierra del Fuego, 289;

at Galapagos, 458.

Respiration difficult in Andes, 388.

Retrospect, 597.

Revolutions at Buenos Ayres, 173.

Rhinoceroses live in desert countries,
110; frozen, 114, 303.

Pteroptochos, two species of, 327; species Rhynchops nigra, 169.

of, 337, 348.

Puente del Inca, 404, 429.

Puffinus cinereus, 350.

Puffinuria Berardii, 351.

Richardson, Dr., on frozen soil, 113, 301;
on eating fat, 147; on geographical
distribution, 162; on polished rocks,
305; on mice of North America, 455.

Puma, flesh of, 146; habits of, 167, 225, Rimsky atoll, 558.

326.

Puna, or short respiration, 388.

Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 105.

Punta Gorda, 161, 428.

Pyrophorus luminosus, 47.

QUADRUPEDS, large, do not require luxu-

Rio de Janeiro, 33; Plata, 56; Negro, 84,
184; Colorado, 92; Sauce, 135; Salado,
148; Santa Cruz, 217.

River-bed, arched, 432.

River-courses, dry, in America, 135.

Rivers, power of, in wearing channels,
222, 388.

riant vegetation, 109; weight of, 112; | Rocks burnished with ferruginous matter,

Quoy and Gaimard on stinging corals, 555; SALADO, Rio, 148.
on coral reefs, 569.

Salinas in Patagonia, 87, 209; at the
Galapagos Archipelago, 453.

RABBIT, wild, at the Falkland Islands, Saline efflorescences, 102.
236.

Rain at Rio, 45; at Coquimbo, 408, 418;
in Chili, formerly more abundant, 428;
in Peru, 438; effects on vegetation,
408.

Rain and earthquakes, 422.

Rana Mascariensis, 459.

Salt with vegetable food, 139; superficial
crust of, 438; with elevated shells,
444.

Salt-lakes, 87, 209, 453.

Sandwich Archipelago, no frogs at, 459.
Sandwich Land, 301.

San Pedro, forests of, 339.

Rat, only aboriginal animal of New Zea- Sand-dunes, 98.
land, 512.

Rats at Galapagos, 455; at Keeling Isl-
and, 545; at Ascension, 588.

Sand, noise from friction of, 435; hot
from sun's rays, at Galapagos Archi-
pelago, 454.

Rattle-snake, species with allied habit, Sandstone of New South Wales, 523;

Scoresby, Mr., on effects of snow on Spiders, habits of, 53-55; killed by and

Snow, effects of, on rocks, 384; prismatic Tasmania, 534.

Temperature of Tierra del Fuego and | Type of organization in Galapagos isl-

Falkland Islands, 294; of Galapagos,
449, 454.

Tercero, Rio, fossils in banks of, 158.
Terraces of Patagonia, 211, 221; in val-
leys of Cordillera, 381; of Coquimbo,
413.

Tertiary formations of the Pampas, 105,
161, 192; of Patagonia, 210, 397; in
Chili, epochs of, 414, 415.
Teru-tero, habits of, 144.
Testudo, habits of, 459, 473.
Theory of lagoon-islands, 565.
Theristicus, 204.

Thistle beds, 150, 154, 183.
Thunderstorms, 82.

Tierra del Fuego, 249-305; zoology of,
287; entomology of, 289; climate and
vegetation of, 294.

Tinamus rufescens, 142.
Tinochorus eschscholtzii, 120.

ands, American, 472.

Types of organization in different coun-
tries, constant, 213.
Tyrannus, 171.

ULLOA on hydrophobia, 426; on Indian
buildings, 430.

Unanue, Dr., on hydrophobia, 426.
Uruguay, Rio, 172, 182; not crossed by
the bizcacha, 155.

Uspallata range and pass, 399-402.

VACAS, Rio, 402.

Valdivia, 360; forests of, 361, 364.
Valley of Santa Cruz, how excavated,
221; dry, at Copiapó, 427.

Valleys, excavation of, in Chili, 381, 428;
in Cordillera, 381; of Tahiti, 488, 492;
of New South Wales, 524.
Valparaiso, 306, 378.

Toad, habits of, 124; not found in oceanic Vampire bat, 37.

islands, 459.

Torrents in Cordillera, 381, 388.

Tortoise, habits of, 459, 473.

Toxodon, 106, 158, 161, 191.

Vapour from forests, 39.
Van Diemen's Land, 534.

Vanellus cayanus, 144.
Vanessa, flocks of, 195.

Transparency of air in St. Jago, 17; in Vanikoro, 562, 563, 568.

Andes, 393.

Transport of fragments of rock on banks
of the Santa Cruz river, 221; of boulders,
229, 299; of seeds, 471, 543; of stones
in roots of trees, 552.

Vegetation, luxuriant, not necessary to
support large animals, 109; on opposite
sides of Cordillera, 394; of St. Helena,
changes of, 584.
Ventana, Sierra, 135.

Travertine, with leaves of trees, Van Verbena melindres, 58.
Diemen's Land, 536.

Villa Vicencio, 400.

Tree-ferns, southern limits of, 296; in Virgularia Patagonica, 126, 246.
Australia, 537.

Trees, absence of, in Pampas, 65; time
required to rot, 364; silicified, vertical,
400; size of, 425; floating, transport
stones, 552.

Tres Montes, 340.

Trichodesmium, 28.

Trigonocephalus, 123.

Tristan d'Acunha, 481, 545.

Trochilus, 329.

Tropical scenery, 591.

Tschudi, M., on subsidence, 444.

Tubes, siliceous, formed by lightning, 80.
Tucutuco, habits of, 69; fossil species of,

107.

Tuff, craters of, 448; infusoria in, 590.
Tupungato, volcano of, 392.
Turco, El, 327.

Turkey buzzard, 79, 226, 344.

Turtle, manner of catching, 549.

Volcanic islands, 21; phenomena, 375;
bombs, 589.

Volcanoes near Chiloe, 331, 333, 352, 375;
their presence determined by elevation
or subsidence, 575.

Vultur aura, 79, 226, 344.

WADERS, first colonists of distant isl-
ands, 457.

Waimate, New Zealand, 505.

Waiomio, New Zealand, 514.
Walckenaer on spiders, 55.
Walleechu tree, 90.

Wasps preying on spiders and killed by,
52, 54.

Water-hog, 68.

Water, fresh, floating on salt, 57, 548;
sold at Iquique, 436.

Waterhouse, Mr., on rodents, 68, 455;

on the niata ox, 180.

Tierra del Fuego, 281; cold, on Cor-
dillera, 389, 434.

Waterhouse, Mr., on the insects of Tierra | Winds, dry, at the Cape Verds, 17; in
del Fuego, 289; of Galapagos, 458, 471.
Waves, caused by fall of ice, 273, 298;
from earthquakes, 369, 373.
Weather, connection with earthquakes,
423.

Weatherboard, New South Wales, 523.
Weeds in New Zealand, imported, 472,
512.

Weight of large quadrupeds, 112.
Wellington, Mount, 534.

Wells at Iquique, 438; ebbing and flow-
ing, 548.

Winter's Bark, 286, 339.

Wolf at the Falklands, 237.
Wood, Captain, on the agouti, 92.
Woollya, 270.

YAQUIL, gold-mines, Chili, 321.
Yeso, Valle del, 385.
York Minster, 253.

ZONOTRICHIA, 72.

West Indies, zoology of, 164; banks of, Zoological provinces of North and South
526; coral reefs of, 565, 574.

America, 162.

Whales, oil from, 31; leaping out of Zoology of Tierra del Fuego, 287; of
water, 272.
Chonos Islands, 347; of Galapagos, 454;
of Keeling Island, 545; of St. Helena,
585.

White, Mr., on spiders, 52.

Wigwams of Fuegians, 259.

Williams, Rev. J., on infectious dis- Zoophytes, 126; at Falkland Islands, 245.
orders, 521.

Zorillo, or skunk, 104.

From the Library of SCOTT TURNER