ABBOTT, Mr., on spiders, [36]
Aborigines banished from Van Diemen’s Land, [475]
of Australia, [430] to 458
Abrolhos Islands, [9], [14]
Absence of trees in Pampas, [48]
Aconcagua, volcano of, [269], [294], [312]
Actinia, stinging species, [494]
Africa, Southern part desert, yet supports large animals, [89]
Ageronia feronia, [39]
Agouti, habits of, [72]
Ague common in Peru, [389]
Albemarle Island, [401], [420]
Allan, Dr., on Diodon, [14]
on Holuthuriæ, [494]
Alluvium, saliferous, in Peru, [367]
stratified, in Andes, [333]
Amblyrhynchus, [401], [411]
Anas, species of, [210]
Animalculæ. See Infusoria
Antarctic islands, [263]
Antipodes, [444]
Ants at Keeling Island, [485]
in Brazil, [36]
Antuco volcano, [311]
Apires, or miners [364]
Aplysia, [6], [493]
Apple-trees, [318]
Aptenodytes demersa, [209]
Araucanian Indians, [66]
Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific and Indian oceans, [480]
Armadilloes, habits of, [110]
fossil animals allied to, [137], [164]
Arqueros mines, [369]
Arrow-heads, ancient, [109], [381]
Ascension, [522], [538]
Aspalax, blindness of, [53]
Athene cunicularia, [73], [132]
Atolls, [490], [495]
Attagis, [98]
Atwater, Mr., on the prairies, [124]
Audubon, M., on smelling-power of carrion-hawks, [195]
Australia, [459]
Australian barrier, [499]
group of weapons, [480]
Ava (Macropiper methysticum), [428], [436]
Azara on spiders, [39]
on rain in La Plata, [49]
on habits of carrion-hawks, [58]
on range of carrion-hawks, [60]
on a thunder-storm, [65]
on ostrich-eggs, [95]
on bows and arrows, [110]
on new plants springing up, [125]
on great droughts, [142]
on hydrophobia, [378]
BACHMAN, Mr., on carrion-hawks, [195]
Bahia Blanca, [50], [70], [77] to 110
fossil tooth of horse from, [138]
Bahia, Brazil, [11]
scenery of, [526]
Bajada, [136]
Balbi on coral reefs, [499]
Bald Head, Australia, [479]
Ballenar, Chile, [373]
Banda Oriental, [48], [152], [158], [186]
Banks’s Hill, [221]
Barking-bird, [307]
Barrier-reef, Bolabola, [498]
reefs, sections of, [500]
Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, [182]
Bathurst, Australia, [470]
Batrachian reptiles, [101]
Bats, vampire, [22], [23]
Bay of Islands, New Zealand, [444]
Beads, hill of, [158]
Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, [230]
Beech-trees, [251], [292]
Beetles in brackish water, [22]
on a fungus, [32]
alive in sea, [168]
at St. Julian, [180]
dung-feeders, [520], [521]
Behring’s Straits, fossils of, [140]
Bell of Quillota, [270]
Benchuca, [352]
Berkeley Sound, [199], [214]
Rev. J., on Confervæ, [15]
on Cyttaria, [250]
Berquelo river, [158]
Bibron, M., [407]
Bien te veo, [56]
Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, [405]
tameness of, [424]
Birgos latro, [492], [512]
Bizcacha, habits of, [73], [130], [273]
Blackheath, Australia, [466]
Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, [171]
Blindness of tucutuco, [53]
Blue Mountains, [465]
Body, frozen, [93], [263]
Bolabola, barrier-reef, [498], [504]
Bolas, manner of using, [46], [117]
Bombs, volcanic, [524]
Bones of the guanaco collected in certain spots, [177]
fire made of, [205]
recent in Pampas, [142]
fossil, [86], [134], [137], [164], [182]
Bory St. Vincent on frogs, [407]
Boulders, [197], [262]
Bramador, El, [358]
Brazil, great area of granite, [12]
Brazilian whips, etc., [75]
Breaches in coral reefs, [502]
Breakwater of seaweed, [253]
Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous deposit, [10]
Bridge of hide, [334]
of Incas, [357], [380], [394]
Buckland, Dr., on fossils, [140]
Buenos Ayres, [127]
trading at, [111]
evening camp, [128]
bullock-waggons, [150]
Buffon on American Animals, [183]
Bug of Pampas, [352]
Buildings, Indian, [381] to 383, [394]
Bulimus on desert places, [371]
Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, [91]
on ostrich-eggs, [95]
on perforated stones, [285]
Butterflies, flocks of, [167]
Butterfly producing clicking sound, [34]
Button, Jemmy, [218]
Byron’s account of fox of Falklands, [204]
on an Indian killing his child, [228]
CABBAGE PALM, [26]
Cacti, [174], [278], [399]
Cactornis, [405], [424]
Cactus, Cereus Peruviana, [278]
Calasoma on wing out at sea, [168]
Calcareous casts of branches and roots of trees at King George’s Sound, [479]
incrustations on rocks of Ascension, [9]
Callao, [389], [391]
Calodera, [132]
Calomys bizcacha, [130]
Camarhynchus, [405], [424]
Camelidæ, fossil animal allied to, [182]
Cancer salinus, [69]
Canis antarcticus, [204]
fulvipes, [287]
Cape Horn, [222], [223]
False Horn, [229], [243]
of Good Hope, [91]
Capybara, or carpincho, [40], [51], [182], [307]
fossil allied to, [87]
Caracara, or Carrancha, [57]
Cardoon, beds of, [125], [157]
Carizal, [371]
Carmichael, Capt., [426]
Carrion-hawks, [59], [126], [195]
Casarita, [99]
Cassava, [23]
Castro, Chiloe, [296], [315]
old church at, [291]
Casuchas, [358]
Catamaran, [18]
Cathartes, [60], [195]
Cats run wild, [123], [523]
good to eat, [123]
scratch trees, [144]
cruelty to mice, [209]
Cattle, effects of their grazing on the vegetation, [124]
killed by great droughts, [142], [156]
know each other, [155]
curious breed of, [155]
waste of, [158]
wild at the Falkland Islands, [200], [203]
Caucahue, [295]
Cauquenes, hot springs of, [281]
Causes of extinction of species among mammalia, [182]
of discoloured sea, [15]
Cavia Patagonica, [72]
Cawa-Cawa, New Zealand, [456]
Caylen, [298]
Cervus campestris, [50]
Ceryle Americana, [147]
Chacao, Chiloe, [293]
Chagos atolls, [508]
Chalk-like mud, [494]
Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, [484], [491]
on coral reefs, [496]
Changes in vegetation of Pampas, [126]
in vegetation of St. Helena, [519]
Charles Island, [400], [420]
Chatham Island, [399], [420]
Cheese, salt required for, [68]
Cheucau, [297], [307]
Chile, [268], [271], [274]
features of country, [270]
Chilenos, [194], [337]
Chilian miner, [277]
spurs, stirrup, etc, [290]
vegetation, [359]
Chiloe, [291]
old church at castro, [291]
forests of, and climate, [292]
inhabitants of, [292], [294]
roads of, [293], [313], [314]
Gunnera scabra, [310]
Chionis alba, [98]
Cholechel, conflict at, [109]
Chonos Archipelago, [300], [304]
climate of, [292]
zoology of, [306]
ornithology of, [307]
Chupat, Rio, [110]
Chuzo, [66]
Cicada homoptera, [529]
Cladonia, [387]
Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, in Chile, [271]
Climate of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, [257]
Antarctic Islands, [263]
change of, in Chile, [382]
Galapagos, [397]
Clouds of vapour after rain, [25]
on Corcovado, [30]
hanging low, [389]
at sea, [429]
Coleoptera in Tropics, [35]
out at sea, [168]
of St. Julian, [180]
Colias edusa, flocks of, [168]
Colnett, Capt., on spawn in sea, [17]
on a marine lizard, [411]
on transport of seeds, [418]
Colonia del Sacramiento, [153]
Colorado, Rio, [73]
Compound animals, [211]
Concepcion, Chile, [325]
Conchalee, [362]
Condor, habits of, [193], [196], [287]
(Sarcorhamphus gryphus), [187]
Confervæ, pelagic, [15]
Conglomerate on the Ventana, [113]
in Cordillera, [342]
Conurus, [147]
Convicts of Mauritius, [514]
condition, in New South Wales, [473]
Cook, Capt., on kelp, [253]
Copiapó, river and valley of, [366], [370], [375], [385]
town of, [374], [378]
Coquimbo, [22], [365]
Coral formations, [429], [502] to 509
stinging species of, [493]
reefs, sections of, [502], [508]
dead, [508]
Corallines, [207]
Corals, [507]
Corcovado, clouds on, [30]
volcano, [304]
Cordillera, appearance of, [269], [292], [337]
different productions on east and west side, [345]
passage of, [334]
structure of valleys, [335]
rivers of, [338]
geology of, [339], [354], [355]
valley of Copiapó, [385]
mountains, [435]
Cormorant catching fish, [209]
Corral, where animals are slaughtered at Buenos Ayres, [127]
Corrientes, Cape, [168]
Corrobery, or native Australian dance, [479]
Corunda, [135]
Coseguina, eruption of, [312], [376]
Countries, unhealthy, [389]
Couthouy, Mr., on coral-reefs, [504]
Crabberies, [83]
Crabs, hermit species of, [486]
at St. Paul’s, [10]
at Keeling Island, [492]
Craters, number of, at the Galapagos Archipelago, [398]
of Elevation, [515]
Crisia, [211]
Cruelty to animals, [162]
Crustacea, pelagic, [171]
Ctenomys Brasiliensis, [52]
fossil species of, [86]
Cucao, Chiloe, [315]
Cuckoo-like habits of Molothrus, [55]
Cudico, mission at, [320]
Cuentas, Sierra de, [158]
Cufre, [153]
Cumbre of Cordillera, [358]
Cuming, Mr., on shells, [416], [520]
Cuttlefish, habits of, [7]
Cuvier on Diodon, [14]
Cynara cardunculus, [125]
Cyttaria Darwinii, [250], [251]
DACELO IAGOENSIS, [2]
Dasypus, three species of, [100]
Deer, [50], [139]
Degradation of tertiary formations, [368]
Deinornis, [455]
Deserts, [371], [384]
Desmodus, [22]
Despoblado, valley of, [379]
Dieffenbach, Dr., E., [2]
on Auckland Island, [259], [464]
Diodon, habits of, [13]
Discoloured sea, [15]
Diseases from miasma, [389], [464]
Distribution of mammalia in America, [138]
of animals on opposite sides of Cordillera, [348]
of frogs, [407]
of Fauna of Galapagos, [419]
Dobrizhoffer on ostriches, [98]
on a hail-storm, [122]
Docks, imported, [455]
Dogs, shepherd, [159]
Dolichonyx oryzivorus, [404]
D’Orbigny, Travels in South America, [81], [97], [125], [137], [159], [177]
Doris, eggs of, [211]
Dormidor, or horse-tamer, [160]
Doubleday, Mr., on a noise made by a butterfly, [34]
Drigg, lightning tubes at, [61]
Droughts, great, in Pampas, [141]
Dryness of St. Jago, [4]
of winds in Tierra del Fuego, [245]
of air in Cordillera, [348]
Dubois, [407]
Dung-feeding beetles, [520], [521]
Dust, falling from atmosphere, [5]
EARTHENWARE, fossil, [394]
Earthquake, accompanied by an elevation of the coast, [331]
accompanied by rain, [375]
at Callao, [393]
at Concepcion, [325]
at Coquimbo, [366]
at Keeling and Vanikoro, and Society Islands, [504]
at Valdivia, [322]
causes of, [330]
effect of, on springs, [281]
on bottom of sea, [327]
effects of, on rocks, [274], [324]
effects of, on sea, [323], [324], [325]
effects of, on a river-bed, [381]
line of vibration of, [328]
on S.W. coast, [260]
tossing fragments from the ground, [208]
twisting movement of, [328]
Eggs of Doris, [211]
Ehrenberg, Prof., on Atlantic dust, [5]
on infusoria in Pampas, [87], [137]
in the open sea, [172]
in Patagonia, [180]
in Fuegian paint, [234]
in coral mud, [494]
in tuff at Ascension, [525]
on phosphorescence of the sea, [172]
on noises from a hill, [385]
Eimeo, island of, [432]; barrier-reef, [433]
Elater, springing powers of, [32]
Electricity of atmosphere within Andes, [348]
Elephant, weight of, [91]
Elevated shells, [89], [136], [180], [266], [313], [331], [367], [393]
Elevation of coasts of Chile, [266], [313], [323], [331], [355], [367], [381]
Bahia Blanca, [87]
Pampas, [137]
Patagonia, [180], [395]
mountain-chains, [333]
Cordillera, [338], [343], [354]
Peru, [393]
within human period, [395]
fringing-reefs, [508]
Entomology of the Galapagos Archipelago, [407], [418], [420]
Brazil, [34]
Patagonia, [180], [349]
Tierra del Fuego, [253]
Keeling Island, [485]
St. Helena, [520]
Entre Rios, geology of, [132]
Epeira, habits of, [37] to 39
Erratic blocks, how transported, [262]
absent in intertropical countries, [263]
on plains of Santa Cruz, [196]
of Tierra del Fuego, [262]
Estancia, value of, [154]
Extermination of species and races, [183], [462], [469], [476]
Extinction of shells at St. Helena, [520]
of species, causes of, [183]
of man in New South Wales, [462], [476]
Eyes of tucutuco and mole, [53]
Eyre Sound, [260]
FALCONER, Dr., on the Sivatherium, [155]
on the Indians, [109]
on rivers in Pampas, [112]
on natural enclosures, [122]
Falkland Islands, [199]
absence of trees at, [48]
carrion-hawks of, [57]
wild cattle and horses of, [200]
fox of, [204]
climate of, [257]
peat of, [305]
tame birds at, [424]
Fat, quantity eaten, [123]
Fatahua fall, [436]
Fear an acquired instinct, [426]
Februa Hoffmanseggi, butterfly, [35]
Fennel run wild, [125]
Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, [390]
Fernando Noronha, [2], [11], [173], [399]
Ferns, tree, [259], [477]
Fields of dead coral, [488]
Fire, art of making, [205], [436]
Fireflies, [31]
Fish emitting harsh sound, [144]
of Galapagos, [416]
eating coral, [494]
Flamingoes, [69]
Fleas, [369]
Floods after droughts, [142]
clear after snow, [341]
Flora of the Galapagos, [399], [418], [421]
of Keeling Island, [483]
of St. Helena, [523]
Flustraceæ, [211]
Forests, absence of, in La Plata, [47]
of Tierra del Fuego, [220], [250], [305]
of Chiloe, [250], [299], [305], [314]
of Valdivia, [319], [322]
of New Zealand, [436]
of Australia, [445]
Fossil Mammalia, [36], [134], [137], [164], [182]
earthenware, [394]
Fox of the Falkland Islands, [204]
of Chiloe, [299]
Freyrina, [372]
Friendly Archipelago, [505]
Fringing reefs, [501]
Frogs, noises of, [30]
bladders of, [409]
and toads, not found on oceanic islands, [407]
Frozen soil, [93], [257]
Fruit-trees, southern limit of, [250]
Fucus giganteus, [254]
Fuegians, [151], [218] to 243
wigwams, [151], [224]
basket and bone weapons, [230]
Fulgurites, [62]
Fungus, edible, [250]
Furnarius, [99]
GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO, [398]
natural history of, [403]
marked relationship with America, [403]
zoology of, [403], [419]
finches from, [405]
Gale of wind, [228], [300]
Gallegos river, fossil bones at, [182]
Gallinazo, [60]
Gauchos, [46], [160]
character of, [161]
live on meat, [123]
surcingle of, [46]
Gavia mountain, [33]
Gay, M., on floating islands, [283]
on shells in brackish water, [22]
Geese at the Falkland Islands, [210]
Geographical distribution of American animals, [138], [349]
of frogs, [407]
of fauna of Galapagos, [419]
Geology of Cordillera, [341], [355]
of St. Jago, [6]
of St. Paul, [8]
of Brazil, [12]
of Bahia Blanca, [86]
of Pampas, [136]
of Patagonia, [180], [190]
Georgia, climate of, [263]
Geospiza, [405], [420]
Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, [382]
Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, [345]
Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, [237], [260], [261]
in lat. 46° 40′, [260]
in Cordillera, [346]
Glow-worms, [31]
Goats destructive to vegetation at St. Helena, [520]
bones of, [177]
Goeree Roads, [230]
Goître, [336]
Gold-washing, [284]
Good Success Bay, [214]
Gossamer spider, [169]
Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, [132]
on birds of Galapagos, [404]
Granite mountains, Tres Montes, [301]
of Cordillera, [342]
Graspus, [10]
Gravel, how far transported, [113]
of Patagonia, [78], [180]
Graves of Indians, [179]
Greenstone, fragments of, [274]
Gregory, Cape, [245]
Gryllus migratorius, [352]
Guanaco, habits of, [175], [197]
fossil allied genus, [182]
Guantajaya, mines of, [387]
Guardia del Monte, [124]
Guasco, [367], [371], [375]
Guasos of Chile, [275]
Guava imported into Tahiti, [430]
Guinea-fowl, [5], [523]
Guitron, [279]
Gunnera scabra, [298]
Gypsum, great beds of, [342]
in salt-lake, [68]
in Patagonian tertiary beds, [180]
at Iquique with salt, [388]
at Lima with shells, [392]
HACHETTE, M., on lightning-tubes, [62]
Hacienda, condor, and cactus, [271]
Hail-storm, [121]
Hall, Captain Basil, on terraces of Coquimbo, [367]
Hare, Varying, [47]
Head, Captain, on thistle-beds, [125], [130]
Height of snow-line on Cordillera, [259]
Henslow, Prof., on potatoes, [304]
on plants of Keeling Island, [483]
Hermit crabs, [486]
Hide bridge, [334]
Hill emitting a noise, [385]
Himantopus, [120]
Hippah, New Zealand, [458]
Hobart Town and Mount Wellington, [475]
Hogoleu barrier-reef, [499]
Holes made by a bird, [99]
Holman on drifted seeds, [484]
Holothuriæ feeding on coral, [494]
Homeward bound, [531]
Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, [125]
Dr. J. D., on the kelp, [253]
on Galapageian plants, [418], [421]
Horn, Cape, [223]
Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, [10]
Horse, swimming powers of, [152]
Horse, wild at the Falkland Islands, [202]
fossil of extinct species of, [86], [138]
Horse-fly, [180]
Horsemanship of the Gauchos, [162], [206]
Horses difficult to drive, [115]
drop excrement on paths, [125]
killed by great droughts, [141]
multiplication of, [247]
broken in, [160]
Hot springs of Cauquenes, [281]
Huacas, [394], [396]
Humboldt on burnished rocks, [12]
on the atmosphere in tropics, [33]
on frozen soil, [93]
on hybernation, [102]
on potatoes, [304]
on earthquakes and rain, [375]
on miasma, [390], [463]
Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, [33]
of Chiloe, [289]
Hurtado, [113]
Hybernation of animals, [102]
Hydrochærus capybara, [40], [51]
Hydrophobia, [377]
Hyla, [30]
Hymenophallus, [34]
IBIS MELANOPS, [175]
Ice, prismatic structure of, [347]
Icebergs, [197], [237], [260] to 267
Incas’ bridge, [357], [380], [394]
Incrustations on coast rocks, [9], [12]
Indian fossil remains, [395]
Indians, attacks of, [66], [80], [136]
antiquarian relics of, [48], [109]
Araucanian, [66], [321]
of the Pampas, [105]
decrease in numbers of, [108]
grave of, [179], [198]
Patagonian, [245]
perforated stones used by, [285]
Valdivian, [321]
powers of tracking, [350]
ruins of houses of, [380], [384], [392]
Infection, [463]
Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, [5]
in the sea, [16], [168]
in the Pampas, [87], [137]
in Patagonia, [180]
in white paint, [234]
in coral mud, [494]
at Ascension, [525]
Insects first colonists of St. Paul’s rocks, [10]
blown out to sea, [168]
of Patagonia, [180], [349]
of Tierra del Fuego, [253]
of Galapagos, [403], [417], [419]
of Keeling Island, [485]
of St. Helena, [520]
Instincts of birds, [96], [423]
Iodine with salt at Iquique, [388]
Iquique, [386]
Iron, oxide of, on rocks, [12]
Irregular troops, [85]
Islands, oceanic, volcanic, [8]
Antarctic, [263]
floating, [283]
Low, [429], [497]
JACKSON, Col., on frozen snow, [347]
Jaguar, habits of, [143]
Jajuel, mines of, [276]
James Island, [402], [420]
Jemmy Button, [218], [233]
Juan Fernandez, volcano of, [332]
flora of, [418]