INDEX. 



377 



Madrina, or godmother of a troop of 



mules, 229. 



Magdalen channel, 174. 

 Magellan, Strait of, 167. 

 Malcolmson, Dr., on hail, 83. 

 Maldiva atolls, 340, 348, 349. 

 Maldonado, 29. 



Mammalia, fossil, 58, 91, 94, 112, 124, 2701 

 Man, antiquity of, 260. 



fossil remains of, 269. 



body frozen, 181. 



fear of, an acquired instinct, 292. 



extinction of races, 316, 325. 



Mares killed for their hides, in. 

 Mare's flesh eaten by troops, 73. 

 Mastodon, 91, 93. 



Matter, granular, movements in, 72. 

 Mauritius, 351. 

 Maypu river, 230. 

 Megalonyx, 59, 94. 

 Megatherium, 59, 60, 94. 

 Mendoza, climate of, 234. 



240. 



Mexico, elevation of, 95. 



Miasmata, 266, 316. 



Mice inhabit sterile places, 261. 



number of, in America, 36. 



how transported, 209, 275. 



different on opposite sides of Andes, 



of the Galapagos, 275. 



' of Ascension, 359. 



Millepora, 337. 



Mills for grinding ores, 193. 



Mimosse, 19. 



Mimus, 39, 287, 290. 



Miners, condition of, 189, 193, 246, 251. 



Mines, 189, 247, 251. 



how discovered, 230. 



Missionaries at New Zealand, 309. 



Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Australia, 



3 T 9- 



Mocking-bird, 39, 287, 290. 

 Molina, omits description of certain birds, 



197. 



Molothrus, habits of, 38. 

 Monkeys with prehensile tails, 20. 

 Monte Video, 30, 103. 

 Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 337. 

 . on coral-reefs, 349. 

 Mount Sarmiento, 168, 174. 

 Tarn, 169. 

 Mountains, elevation of, 227. 

 Movements in granular matter, 72. 

 Mud, chalk-like, 338. 



disturbed by earthquake, 223. 



Mules, 229. 



Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 105. 



Murray, Mr., on spiders, 116. 

 Mylodon, 55, 94, 1 12. 

 Myopotamus Coipus, 209. 



NEGRESS with goitre, 228. 



Negro, Rio, 46, 106. 



lieutenant, 54. 



New Caledonia, reef of, 341, 343, 348. 



Zealand, 303. 



Niata cattle, 105. 



Noises from a hill, 262. 



Noses, ceremony of pressing, 308. 



Nothura, 33. 



Notopod, crustacean, 117. 



Nulliporae, incrustations like, 7. 



protecting reefs, 363. 



OCTOPUS, habits of, 5. 

 Oily coating on sea, 13 

 Olfersia, 8. 

 Opetiorhynchus, 210. 

 Opuntia Galapageia, 278. 



Darwinii, 119. 



189. 



Orange-trees, self-sown, 87. 



Ores, gold, 193. 



Ornithorhynchus, 321. 



Ornithology of Galapagos, 274, 290. 



Osorno, volcano of, 198, 200, an. 



Ostrich, habits of, 31, 65. 



Ostrich's eggs, 81. 



Otaheite, 293. 



Otter, 209. 



Ova in sea, 13 . 



Oven-bird, 69. 



Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 96. 



Professor, on the Capybara, 36. 



fossil quadrupeds, 59, 60, 94, 112. 



nostrils of the Gallinazo, 134. 



Owl of Pampas, 51, 90. 

 Oxyurus, 172, 210. 

 Oysters, gigantic, 123. 



PAINT, white, 160. 

 Pallas on Siberia, 48. 

 Palm-trees in La Plata, 34. 



in Chile, 186. 



south limit of, 177. 



Palms absent at Galapagos, 273. 

 Pampas, number of embedded remains in, 



112. 



S. limit of, 54. 



changes in, 86. 



not quite level, 89, 91, 103. 



geology of, 93, 112. 



view of, from the Andes, 238. 



Papilio feronia, 24. 

 Parana, Rio, 91, 101, 106. 



