INDEX. 



49: 



Beagle Channel, Tierra del 



Fuego, 220. 

 Beech-trees, 237, 280. 

 Beetles alive in sea, 163. 



at St. Julian, 174. 



in brackish water, 33. 



on a fungus, 44. 



i Behring's Straits, fossils of, 



138. 



Bell of Qiiillota, 258. 



Benchuca, 327. 



Berkeley, Rev. J., on Con- 

 fervas, 27. 



on Cyttaria, 237. 



Sound, 192. 



Bibron, M., 376, 380, 389. 



Bien-te-veo, 65. 



Birds, tameness of, 393. 



Birgos latro, 455. 



Bizcacha, habits of, 131. 



Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 

 166. 



Blindness of tucutuco, 62. 



Body, frozen, 97, 250, 252. 



Bolabola, 460, 465. 



Bolas, manner of using, 55, 

 118. 



Bombs, volcanic, 484. 



Bones of the guanaco col- 

 lected in certain spots, 172. 



fire made of, 198. 



recent, in Pampas, 160. 



fossil, 91, 133, 136, 160, 



176. 



Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 



377- 

 Jjoulders, 190, 240. 

 Bramador, El, 358. 

 r.razil, great area of granite, 



"5- 



• aches in coral reefs, 464. 



Ijieakwater of sea-weed, 241. 



i'.iewster. Sir D., on a cal- 

 careous deposit, 23. 



Bridge of hide, 263. 

 Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 138. 

 Buenos Ayres, 129. 

 Buffon on American animals, 



178. 

 Bug of Pampas, 327. 

 Buildings, Indian, 353, 355, 



365- 

 Bulimus on desert places, 344. 

 Burchell, Mr., on food of 



quadrupeds, 96. 



on ostrich eggs, 99. 



on perforated stones, 268. 



Butterflies, flocks of, 163. 

 Butterfly producing clicking 



sound, 45. 

 Button, Jemmy, 210. 

 Byron's account of fox of 



Falklands, 197. 

 on an Indian killing his 



child, 218. 



Cacti, 170, 261, 370. 

 Cactornis, 375, 389. 

 Calasoma on wing out at 



sea, 163. 

 Calcareous casts of branches 



and roots of trees at King 



George's Sound, 443. 

 Calcareous incrustations on 



rocks of Ascension, 22. 

 Callao, 364. 

 Calodera, 131. 

 Camarhynchus, 375, 389. 

 Camelidae, fossil animal 



allied to, 177. 

 Canis antarcticus, 197. 



fulvipcs, 279. 



Capybara, or carpincho, 60, 



287. 



fossil allied to, 91. 



Cape Horn, 214. 



Cape of (iood Hope, 97. 



Caracara, or Carranclia, 65. 



