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INDEX 



Beads, hill of, 158 



Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 230 



Beech-trees, 251, 292 



Beetles in brackish water, 22 



on a fungus, 32 



alive in sea, 168 



at St. Julian, 180 



dung-feeders, 520, 521 

 Behring's Straits, fossils of, 140 

 Bell of Quillota, 270 

 Benchuca, 352 

 Berkeley Sound, 199, 214 



•Rev. J., on Confervse, 15 

 on Cyttaria, 250 

 Berquelo river, 158 

 Bibron, M., 407, 41 1 

 Bien te veo, 56 

 Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 



405 



tameness of, 424 

 Birgos latro, 492, 512 

 Bizcacha, habits of, 73, 130, 273 

 Blackheath, Australia, 466 

 Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 17 1 

 Blindness of tucutuco, 53 

 Blue Mountains, 465 

 Hody, frozen, 93, 263 

 IJolabola, barrier-reef, 498, 504 

 Bolas, manner of using, 46, 117 

 Bombs, volcanic, 524 

 Bones of the guanaco collected in certain 

 spots, 177 



fire made of, 205 



recent in Pampas, 142 



fossil, 86, 134, 137, 164, 182 

 Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 407 

 Boulders, 197, 262 

 Bramador, El, 385 

 Brazil, great area of granite, 12 

 Brazilian whips, etc., 75 

 Breaches in coral reefs, 502 

 Breakwater of seaweed, 253 

 Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous de- 

 posit, 10 

 Bridge of hide, 334 



of Incas, 357, 380, 394 

 Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 140 

 Buenos Ayres, 127 



trading at, ill 



evening camp, 128 



bullock-waggons, 150 

 Buffon on American Animals, 183 

 Bug of Pampas, 352 

 Buildings, Indian, 381 to 383, 394 

 Bulimus on desert places, 371 

 Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 

 91 



Burchell, Mr., on ostrich-eggs, 95 



on perforated stones, 285 

 Butterflies, flocks of, 167 

 Butterfly producing clicking sound, 34 

 Button, Jemmy, 218, 233 

 Byron's account of fox of Falklands, 

 204 



on an Indian killing his child, 228 



Cabbage palm, 26 

 Cacti, 174, 278, 399 

 Cactornis, 405, 424 , 



Cactus, Cereus Peruviana, 278 

 Calasoma on wing out at sea, 168 

 Calcareous casts of branches and roots of 

 trees at King George's Sound, 479 



incrustations on rocks of Ascension, 9 

 Callao, 389, 391 

 Calodera, 132 

 Calomys bizcacha, 130 

 Camarhynchus, 405, 424 

 Camelidse, fossil animal allied to, 182 

 Cancer salinus, 69 

 Canis antarcticus, 204 



fulvipes, 287 

 Cape Horn, 222, 223 



False Horn, 229, 243 



of Good Hope, 91 

 Capybara, or carpincho, 40, 51, 1S2, 



307 



fossil allied to, 87 

 Caracara, or Carrancha, 57 

 Cardoon, beds of, 125, 157 

 Carizal, 371 

 Carmichael, Capt., 426 

 Carrion-hawks, 59, 126, 195 

 Casarita, 99 

 Cassava, 23 

 Castro, Chiloe, 296, 315 



old church at, 291 

 Casuchas, 358 

 Catamaran, 18 

 Cathartes, 60, 195 

 Cats run wild, 123, 523 



good to eat, 123 



scratch trees, 144 



cruelty to mice, 209 

 Cattle, effects of their grazing on the 

 vegetation, 124 



killed by great droughts, 142, 156 



know each other, 155 



curious breed of, 155 



waste of, 158 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 200, 

 203 

 Caucahue, 295 

 Cauquenes, hot springs of. 281 



