314 



Blindness of tucutuco, i., 65. 



Body, frozen, i., 113, 320. 



BolaboJa, ii., 264, 270. 



Bulas, manner of usiner, i., 56, 142. 



Bombs, volcanic, ii., 295. 



Bones of the guanaco collected in 



certain spots, i., 215. 



, fire made of, i., 250. 



, recent in Pampas, i., 171. 



, fossil, 1., 104, 162, 165, 198, 



222. 

 Bory St. Vincent on frogs, ii., 150. 

 Boulders, i., 240, 318. 

 Bramador, El, ii., 123. 

 Brazil, great area of granite, i., 15. 

 Breaches in coral reefs, ii., 274. 

 Breakwater of sea-weed, i., 308. 

 Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous 



deposit, i., 12. 

 Bridge of hide, i., 338. 



of Incas, ii., 88, 89, 117. 



Buckland, Dr., on fossils, i., 108. 



Buenos Ayres, i., 154. 



BufFon on American animals, i., 222, 



223. 

 Bug of Pampas, li., 62. 

 Buildings, Indian, ii., 116-120, 133. 

 Bulimus on desert places, ii., 105. 

 Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 



i., HI. 



116. 



, on perforated stones, 



i., 345. 

 Butterflies, flocks of, i., 202, 203 

 Butterfly producing clicking sound, 



i., 42. 

 Button, Jemmy, i., 266. 

 Byron's account of fox of Falklands, 



i., 249. 

 on an Indian killing his child, 



i., 278. 



Cacti, i., 212, 336, ii., 140. 

 Cactomis, li., 147, 168. 

 Calasonia on wing out at sea, i., 203. 

 Calcareous casts of branches and 



roots of trees at King George's 



Sound, ii., 240. 

 incrustations on rocks of 



Ascension, i., 11. 

 Callao, ii., 128. 

 Calodera, i., 159. 

 Calomys bizcacha, i., 158. 

 Camarhynchus, ii., 148, 168. 

 Camelidie, fossil animal allied to, i., 



221. 

 Canis antarcticus, i., 249. 

 Canis fulvipes, ii., 17. 



Capybara, or carpincho, i., 63, li., 26. 



, fossil allied to, i., 105. 



Cape Horn, i., 272. 



Cape of Good Hope, i., 109. 



Caracara, or Carrancha, i., 70, 71. 



Cardoon, beds of, i., 153, 189. 



Carmichael, Capt., ii., 175, 247. 



Carrion-hawks, i., 70, 153, 236. 



Casarita, i., 122. 



Castro, Chiloe, ii., 13, 34. 



Casts of trees, ii., 240. 



Casuchas, ii., 89. 



Cathartes, i., 75, 237, ii., 22. 



Cats run wild, i., 153, ii., 294 



good to eat, i., 149. 



scratch trees, i., 173. 



, cruelty to mice, i., 256. 



Cattle, efl^ects of their grazing on the 

 vegetation, i., 152. 



killed by great droughts, i., 



170, 187. 



know each other, i., 185. 



, curious breed of, i., 185, 186. 



.waste of, 1., 190. 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 



)., 243-247. 



Cauquenes, hot springs of, i., 339. 

 Causes of e.\tinctiim of species among 

 mammalia, i., 223. 



of discoloured sea, i., 18. 



Cavia Patagonica, i., 89. 



Cervus campestris, i., 61. 



Ceryle Americana, i., 170. 



Chacao, Chiloe, ii., 9. 



Chagos atolls, li., 277. 



Chalk-like mud, ii., 259. 



Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 



11., 246, 254. 

 on coral reefs, ii., 261. 



in vegetation of St. Helena, 



ii., 289. 



Charles Island, Galapagos Archipel- 

 ago, ii., 141. 



Cheese, salt required for, i., 84. 



Cheucau, li., 14, 27. 



Chile, i., 325, II., 91. 



, features of country, i., 328 



Chiloe, ii., 7. 



, forests of, and climate, i.,313. 



, roads of, ii., 9, 33. 



, inhabitants of, ii., 8, 11. 



Chionis, i., 121. 



Choiios Archipelago, ii., 18. 



, climate of, i.. 



ornithology of, 



313. 



