INDEX. 



Bibron, M., 278, 280, 287. 



Bien-te-veo, 39. 



Birds of the Galapagos Arcipelago, 275, 



287. 



Birds, lameness of| 200* 

 Birgos latro, 337. 

 Bizcacha, habits of, 51, 89. 

 Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 116, 

 Blindness of tucutuco, 37. 

 Body, frozen, 64, 178, 181. 

 Bolabola, 341, 345. 

 Bolas, manner of using, 32, 80. 

 Bombs, volcanic, 359. 

 Bones of the guanaco collected in certain 

 spots, 121. 



fire made of, 141. 



recent in Pampas, 112. 



fossil, 60, 91, 93, 112, 126. 



Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 278. 

 Boulders, 135, 173. 

 Bramador, El, 262. 



Brazil, great area of granite, 9. 

 Breaches in coral reefs, 348. 

 Breakwater of sea-weed, 173. 

 Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous de- 

 Bridge of hide, 191. 



of Incas, 243, 259. 



Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 95. 



Buenos Ayres, 87. 



Buffon on American ^njmals, 135, 



igs, Indian, 259-61, 268. 

 Bulimus on desert places, 252. 

 Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 63. 

 on ostrich-eggs, 66. 

 on perforated stones, 194. 

 Butterflies, flocks of, 114. 

 Butterfly producing clicking sound, 24. 

 Button, Jemmy, 150. 

 Byron's account of fox of Falklands, 140. 

 on an Indian killing his child, 156. 



CACTI, 119, 189, 272. 



Cactornis, 276, 288. 



Calasoma on wing out at sea, 114.' 



Calcareous casts of branches and roots of 

 trees at King George's Sound, 327. 



Calcareous incrustations on rocks of As- 

 cension, 7. 



Callao, 267. 



Calodera, 90, 



Calomys bizcacha, 89. 



Camarhynchus, 276, 288. 



Camelidae, fossil animal allied to< 125. 



Canis antarcticus, 140. 



Canis fulvipes, 203. " 



Capybara, or carpincho, 36, 209, 



Capybara, fossil allied to, 59, 

 Cape Horn, 153. 

 Cape of Good Hope, 62. 

 Caracara, or Carrancha, 40, 

 Cardoon, beds of, 85, 107. 

 Carmichael, Capt., 292. 

 Carrion-hawks, 40, 87, 133, 

 Casarita, 69. 

 Castro, Chiloe, 201, 213. 

 Casts of trees, 327. 

 Casuchas, 243. 

 Cathartes, 42, 133, 206. 

 Cats run wild, 85, 359. 



good to eat, 84. 



scratch trees, 98. 

 cruelty to mice, 144, 

 Guide, effects of their grazing oo the 

 vegetation, 85. 



know each other, 105. 



curious breed of, 105. 



waste of, 107. 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 137, 139. 



Cauquenes, hot springs of, 191. 

 Causes of extinction of species among 

 mammalia, 125. 



of discoloured sea, II, 



Cavia Patagonica, 50. 

 Cervus campestris, 35. 

 Ceryle Americana, 100. 

 Chacao, Chiloe, 199. 

 Chagos atolls, 349. 

 Chalk-like mud, 338. 

 Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 331, 

 336. 



on coral reefs, 340. 



Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 85. 



in vegetation of St. Helena, 356. 



Charles Island, Galapagos Archipelago, 



273. 



Cheese, salt required for, 48. 

 Cheucau, 209. 

 Chile, 187, 246. 



features of country, 189. 



Chiloe, 198. 



forests of, and climate, 177. 



roads of, 199, 212. 



inhabitants of, 198, 200. 



Chionis, 68. 



Chonos Archipelago, 204. 



climate of, 176. 



ornithology of, 209. 



Chupat, Rio, 77. 



Cladonia, 264. 



Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, in 



Chile, 183. 



Climate of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland 

 Islands, 175. 



