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INDEX. 



Parana, islands in, yj. 



Parish, Sir W., on great drought, 96. 



Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 80. 



Parrots, 99, 176. 



Partridges, 33. 



Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 304. 



Passes in Cordillera, 242. 



Pasture, altered from grazing of cattle, 85. 



Patagones, 46. 



Patagonia, geology of, 123, 239. 



zoology of, 119, 123, 129. 



Patagonian Indians, 167. 

 Peach-trees self-sown, 87. 

 Peat, formation of, 208. 

 Pebbles perforated, 107, 194. 



transported in roots of trees, 336. 



Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 117. 



Penas, Gulf of, 179. 



Penguin, habits of, 144. 



Pepsis, habits of, 26. 



Pernambuco, reef of, 363. 



Pemety on hill of ruins, 143. 



on tame birds, 291. 



Peru, 263-270. 



dry valleys of, 261, 263, 



Petrels, habits of, 210. 

 Peuquenes,. Pass of, 233. 

 Phonolite at F. Noronha, 8. 

 Phosphorescence of the sea, 117. 



of a coralline, 146. 



of land insects and sea animals, ax. 



Phryniscus, 70. 



Pine of New Zealand, 311. 



Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 191, 232. 



almost horizontal near St. F6, 91. 



Planariae, terrestrial species of, 19. 

 Plants of the Galapagos, 273, 286, 288. 



of Keeling island, 330. 



of St. Helena, 354. 



fossil in Australia, 327. 



Plata, R., 28. 



thunderstorms of, 45. 



Plover, long-legged, 82. 

 Polished rocks, Brazil, 9. 

 Polyborus chimango, 42. 



Novae Zekndise, 43. 



Braziliensis, 40. 



Ponsonby Sound, 161. 

 Porpoises, 28. 

 Port Desire, 118. 



river of, 77, 1*3. 



St. Julian, 124. 



Famine, 168. 

 Portillo Pass, 233, 236. 

 Porto Praya, I. 

 Potato, wild, 207. 

 Potrero Seco, 255. 

 Prairies, vegetation of, 8$. 



Prevost, M., on-cuckoos, 39. 

 Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 43. 

 Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 210. 

 Proctotretus, 70. 

 Proteus, blindness of, 38. 

 Protococcus nivalis, 234. 

 Pteroptochos, two species of, 196. 



species of, 202, 209. 



Puente del Inca, 243, 259. 

 Puffinus cinereus, 210. 

 Puffinuria Berardii, 211. 

 Puma, habits of, 98, 132, 195, 



flesh of, 84. 



Puna, or short respiration, 234, 

 Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 58. 



Gorda, 93, 259. 



Pyrophorus luminosus, 22. 



QUADRUPEDS, fossil, 58, gr, 94, 112, 127. 



large, do not require luxuriant vege- 

 tation, 61. 



weight of, 63. 



Quartz of the Ventana, 79, 



of Tapalguen, 84. 



of Falkland Island, 14* 



Quedius, 8. 



Quillota, valley of, 185. 



Quintero, 184. 



Quiriquina Island, 220. 



Quoy and Gaimard on stinging corals, 

 338. 



on coral reefs, 347. 



RABBIT, wild, at the Falkland Islands, 

 J 39' 



Rain at Coquimbo, 246, 253, 253. 



at Rio, 2r. 



and earthquakes, 256. 



in Peru, 265, 266. 



in Chile, formerly more abundant, 



260. 



effects on vegetation, 245. 



Rana Mascariensis, 278. 



Rat, only aboriginal animal of New Zea- 

 land, 311. 



Rats at Galapagos, 275. 



at Ascension, 359. 



at Keeling Island, 331. 



Rattle-snake, species with allied habit, 70, 



Red snow, 235. 



Reduvius, 240. 



Reef at Pernambuco of sandstone, 363, 



Reefs of coral, 339-351. 



Barrier, 342, 348. 



Fringing, 344. 



Reeks, Mr., analysis of salt, 47. 



bones, 112. 



salt and shells, 269, 



