INDEX. 



511 



Falconer, Jesuit, on natural enclo- 

 sures, 116 

 Falkland Islands, 1S8 



-, birds tame at, 398 



absence of trees at, 



48 



horses of, 190 



, carrion-hawks of, 



, wild cattle and 



., climate of, 242 

 , peat of, 287 



Fat, quantity eaten, 11 

 Fear, an acquired instinct, 399 

 Februa, 33 



Fennel, run wild, 119 

 Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, 3G6 

 Fern-trees, 244, 448 

 Fernando Noronha, 11, 374 

 Fields of dead coral, 460 

 Fire, art of making, 194, 409 

 Fish, eating coral, 464 



of Galapagos, 390 



emitting harsh sound, 136 



Flamingoes, 66 



Fleas, 346 



Floods after droughts, 134 



clear after snow, 319 



Flora of the Galapagos, 374, 



392, 



395 



of Keeling island, 454 

 of St. Helena, 487 



Flustraces, 201 



Forests, absence of, in La Plata, 47 



of Tierra del Fuego, 210, 



243, 286 



of Chiloe, 243, 280 286, 293 



of Valdivia, 298, 301 



of New Zealand, 427 



of Australia, 433 



Fossil Mammalia, 81, 127, 130, 155, 



173 



earthenware, 369 



Fox of the Falkland Islands, 193 



of Chiloe, 280 



Friendly Archipelago, 481 

 Frogs, noises of, 29 



, bladders of, 383 



and toads, not found on oceanic 



islands, 3S1 

 Frozen soil, 88, 248 

 Fruit-trees, southern limit of, 243 

 Fucus giganteus, 239 

 Fuegians, 204 to 234 



Fulgurites, 59 

 Fungus, edible, 236 

 Furnarius, 95 



Galapagos Archipelago, 372 ; natural 

 history of, 377 



belongs to American Zoo- 

 logy, 377, 393 



Gale bf wind, 217,281 



Gallegos River, fossil bones at, 171 



Gallinazo, 55 



Gauchos, 42, 155 



, character of, 156 



live on meat, 117 



Gay, M., on floating islands, 26 5 



, on shells in brackish water, 



21 



Geese at the Falkland Islands, 199 



Geographical distribution of Ameri- 

 can animals, 131, 326 



of frogs, 



381 

 , of fauna 



of Galapagos, 393 

 Geology of Cordillera, 319, 332 



of Patagonia, 170, 181 



of St. Jago, 6 



of St. Paul, 8 



of B. Blanca, 81 



of Pampas, 129 



of Brazil, 12 



Georgia, climate of, 248 



Geospiza, 379, 395 



Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, 



358 

 Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, 323 

 Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 224, 



245 



in Cordillera, 324 

 in lat. 46 40', 246 



Glow-worms, 30 

 Goats, destructive to vegetation at St. 

 Helena, 489 



, bones of, 168 



Goitre, 314 



Gold-washing, 266 



Good Success Bay, 204 



Gossamer spider, 159 



Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, 125 



, on birds of Galapagos, 



379 

 Granite mountains, Tres Montes, 283 



of Cordillera, 320 



Graspus, 10 



