INDEX 



543 



Erratic blocks on plains of Santa Cruz, 196 



of Tierra del Fuego, 262 

 Estancia, value of, 154 

 Extermination of species and races, 183, 



462, 469, 476 

 Extinction of shells at St. Helena, 520 



of species, causes of, 1 83 



of man in New South Wales, 462, 476 

 Eyes of tucutuco and mole, 53 

 Eyre Sound, 260 



t 

 Falconer, Dr., on the Sivatherium, 155 



on the Indians, 109 



on rivers in Pampas, 112 



on natural enclosures, 122 

 Falkland Islands, 199 



absence of trees at, 48 



carrion -hawks of, 57 



wild cattle and horses of, 200 



fox of, 204 



climate of, 257 



peat of, 305 



tame birds at, 424 

 Fat, quantity eaten, 123 

 Fatahua fall, 436 

 Fear an acquired instinct, 426 

 Februa Hoffmanseggi, butterfly, 35 

 Fennel run wild, 125 

 Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, 390 

 Fernando Noronha, 2, II, 173, 399 

 Ferns, tree, 259, 477 

 Fields of dead coral, 488 

 Fire, art of making, 205. 436 

 Fireflies, 31 

 Fish emitting harsh sound, 144 



of Galapagos, 416 



eating coral, 494 

 Flamingoes, 69 

 Fleas, 369 

 Floods after droughts, 142 



clear after snow, 341 

 Flora of the Galapagos, 399, 418, 421 



of Keeling Island, 483 



of St. Helena, 523 

 Flustracese, 211 

 Forests, absence of, in La Plata, 47 



of Tierra del Fuego, 220, 250, 305 



of Chiloe, 250, 299, 305, 314 



of Valdivia, 319, 322 



of New Zealand, 436 



of Australia, 445 

 Fossil -Mammalia, 86, 134, 137, 164, 182 



earthenware, 394 

 Fox of the Falkland Islands, 204 



of Chiloe, 299 

 Freyrina, 372 

 Friendly Archipelago, 505 



Fringing reefs, 501 

 Frogs, noises of, 30 



bladders of, 409 



and toads, not found on oceanic 

 islands, 407 

 Frozen soil, 93, 257 

 Fruit-trees, southern limit of, 250 

 Fucus giganteus, 254 

 Fuegians, 151, 218 to 243 



wigwams, 151, 224 



basket and bone weapons, 230 

 Fulgurites, 62 

 Fungus, edible, 250 

 Furnarius, 99 



Galapagos Archipelago, 398 

 natural history of, 403 



marked relationship with America, 



403 



zoology of, 403, 419 



finches from, 405 

 Gale of wind, 228, 300 

 Gallegos river, fossil bones at, 182 

 Gallinazo, 60 

 Gauchos, 46, 160 



character of, 161 



live on meat, 123 



surcingle of, 46 

 Gavia mountain, 33 

 Gay, M., on floating islands, 283 



on shells in brackish water, 22 

 Geese at the Falkland Islands, 210 

 Geographical distribution of American 

 animals, 138, 349 



of frogs, 407 



of fauna of Galapagos, 419 

 Geology of Cordillera, 341, 355 



of St. Jago, 6 



of St. Paul, 8 



of Brazil, 1 2 



of Bahia Blanca, 86 



of Pampas, 1 36 



of Patagonia, 180, 190 

 Georgia, climate of, 263 

 Geospiza, 405, 420 



Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, 382 

 Gillies, Dr. on the Cordillera, ^45 

 Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 237, 260, 

 261 



in lat. 46° 40', 260 



in Cordillera, 346 

 Glow-worms, 31 



Goats destructive to vegetation at St. 

 Helena, 520 



bones of, 177 

 Goeree Roads, 2 30 

 Goitre, 336 



