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INDEX. 



Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 161 

 Blindness of tueutuco, 52 

 Body, frozen, 89, 249 

 Bolabola, 469, 473 

 Bolas, manner of using, 44, 111 

 Bombs, volcanic, 493 

 Bones of the guanaco collected in cer- 

 tain spots, 167 



, fire made of, 1 94 



, recent in Pampas, 134 



-, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173 



Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 381 

 Boulders, 187, 247 

 Bramador, El, 361 

 Brazil, great area of granite, 12 

 Breaches in coral reefs, 476 

 Breakwater of sea- weed, 240 

 Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous de- 

 posit, 10 

 Bridge of hide, 262 



of Incas, 334, 356 



Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 132 



Buenos Ay res, 121 



Buffon on American animals, 173 



Bug of Pampas, 330 



Buildings, Indian, 356 to 359, 



368 

 Bulimus on desert places, 347 

 Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 



87 



, on ostrich-eggs, 91 



, on perforated stones, 



267 

 Butterflies, flocks of, 158 

 Butterfly producing clicking sound, 



33 

 Button, Jemmy, 207 

 Byron's account of fox of Falklands, 



194 

 on an Indian killing his child, 



216 



Cacti, 165,261, 374 



Cactornis, 379, 394 



Calasoma on wing out at sea, 158 



Calcareous casts of branches and roots 



of trees at King George's Sound, 



450 

 Calcareous incrustations on rocks of 



Ascension, 9 

 Callao, 365 

 Calodera, 1-25 

 Calomys bizcacha, 124 

 Camarhynchus, 379, 394 



Camelidse, fossil animal allied to, 1 72 



Canis antarcticus, 193 



Canis fulvipes, 280 



Capybara, or carpincho, 49, 287 



, fossil allied to, 82 



Cape Horn, 211 

 Cape of Good Hope, 85 

 Caracara, or Carrancha, 55 

 Cardoon, beds of, 119, 148 

 Carmichael, Capt., 392 

 Carrion-hawks, 55, 120, 184 

 Casarita, 95 



Castro, Chiloe, 278, 294 

 Casts of trees, 450 

 Casuchas, 335 

 Cathartes, 58, 184, 284 

 Cats run wild, 120, 493 



good to eat, 117 



scratch trees, 136 



, cruelty to mice, 199 



Cattle, effects of their grazing on the 



vegetation, 118 

 killed by great droughts, 134, 



146 



know each other, 145 



, curious breed of, 145 



, waste of, 149 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 



190, 192 

 Cauquenes, hot springs of, 263 

 Causes of extinction of species among 



mammalia, 173 



of discoloured sea, 14 



Cavia Patagonica, 69 



Cervus campestris, 48 



Ceryle Americana, 138 



Chacao, Chiloe, 274 



Chagos atolls, 478 



Chalk-like mud, 465 



Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 



454, 461 



on coral reefs, 467 



Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 



120 

 in vegetation of St. Helena, 



489 

 Charles Island, Galapagos Archipe- 

 lago, 375 

 Cheese, salt required for, 66 

 Cheucau, 278, 288 

 Chile, 252, 337 



, features of country, 254 



Chiloe, 273 



, forests of, and climate, 243 





