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INDEX. 



Owen, Professor, on the cap}'- 

 bara, 60. * 



— — fossil quadrupeds, 91, 

 92. 



nostrils of the gallinazo, 



188. 



Owl of Pampas, 80, 131. 



Oxyurus, 239, 288. 



Oysters, gigantic, 175. 



Pahs, fortresses of New 



Zealand, 412. 

 Paint, white, 223. 

 Pallas oh Siberia, 77. 

 Palm-trees in La Plata, 57. 



in Chile, 256. 



south limit of, 245. 



Palms absent at Galapagos, 



371- 

 Pampas, number of embedded 



remains in, 160. 



S. limit of, 84. 



changes In, 126. 



not quite level, 129, 133, 



148. 



geology of, 135, 160. 



view of, from the Andes, 



325- 

 Papilio feronia, 44. 

 Parana, Rio, 132, 134, 139. 



islands in, 140. 



Parish, Sir W., on great 



drought, 139. 

 Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 



118. 

 Parrots, 144, 244. 

 Partridges, 56. 

 Passes in Cordillera, 331, 

 Pasture altered from grazing 



of cattle, 126. 

 Patagones, 74. 

 Patagonia, geology of, 175, 



f90. 

 zoology of, 170, 17s, 183. 



Patagonian Indians, 235. 

 Peach-trees, self-sown, 127. 

 Peat, formation of, 286. 

 Pebbles, perforated, 154, 26; 

 transported in roots ( 



trees, 454. 

 Pelagic animals in souther 



ocean, 167. ^^ 



Penas, Gulf of, 248. |H| 

 Penguin, habits of, 202. ^B' 

 Pepsis, habits of, 47. 

 Pernambuco, reef of, 487. 

 Pernety on hill of ruins, 199 



on tame birds, 394. 



Peru, 359, 368. 



dry valleys of, 354, 359. 



Petrels, habits of, 289. 

 Peuquenes, Pass of, 317. 

 Phonollte at F. Noronha, 24 

 Phosphorescence of the sea 



167. 



of a coralline, 205. 



of land Insects anc 



animals, 41. 

 Phryniscus, 105. 

 Pine of New Zealand, 420. 

 Plains at foot of Andes iv 



Chile, 262, 316. 

 almost horizontal neai 



St. F^, 133. 

 Planarlae, terrestrial species 



of, 38, 39. 

 Plants of the Galapagos, 



37o> 387^ 390- 



of Keeling Island, 446. 



of St. Helena, 478. 



fossil, in Australia, 443. 



Plata, R., 50. 



thunderstorms of, 72. 



Plover, long-legged, 121. 

 Polished rocks, Brazil, 25. 

 Polyborus Chimango, 67. 



Novae Zelandias, 67. 



Brasiliensis, 66. 



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