INDEX. 



S07 



Ponsonby Sound, 223. 



Porpoises, 50. 



Port Desire, 169 ; river of, 



St. Julian, 174. 



Famine, 235. 



Portillo Pass, 317, 323. 



Porto Praya, 15. 



Potato, wild, 284. 



Potrero Seco, 347. 



Prairies, vegetation of, 125. 



Provost, M., on cuckoos, 64. 



Priestley, Dr., on lightning- 

 tubes, 70. 



Procellaria gigantea, habits 

 of, 289. 



Proctotretus, 106. 



Proteus, blindness of, 62. 



Protococcus nivalis, 320. 



Pteroptochos, two species of, 

 270. 



 species of, 278, 287. 



Puente del Incas, 332, 353. 



Puffinuria Berardii, 289. 



Puffinus cinereus, 289. 



Puma, habits of, 141, 142, 

 183, 269. 



• flesh of, 123. 



Puna, or short respiration, 



3^9- 

 Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 90. 



Gorda, 135, 353. 



Pyrophorus luminosus, 42. 



Quadrupeds, fossil, 135, 137, 



160, 177. 

 — large, do not require 



luxuriant vegetation, 93, 94. 



weight of, 96. 



Quartz of the Ventana 115. 



ofTapalguen, 123. 



— - of Falkland Islands, 199. 



Quedius, 23. 



Quillota, valley of, 255. 



Quintero, 254. 

 Quinquina Island, 301. 

 Quoy and Gaimard on sting- 

 ing corals, 456. 

 on coral reefs, 468. 



Rabbit, wild, at the Falk- 

 land Islands, 196. 

 Rain at Coquimbo, 335, 345, 



349- „. 



at Rio, 40. 



and earthquakes, 349. 



in Peru, 359, 362. 



in Chile, formerly more 



abundant, 354. 



effects on vegetation, 



336. 



Rana Mascarlensis, 377. 



Rat, only aboriginal animal 

 of New Zealand, 421 



Rats at Galapagos, 374. 



at Ascension, 483. 



at Keeling Island, 448. 



Rattle - snake, species with 

 allied habit, 105. 



Red snow, 320. 



Reduvius, 327. 



Reef at Pernambuco of sand- 

 stone, 488 



Reefs of coral, 445-473. 



Reeks, Mr., analysis of salt, 



75- 



bones, 160. 



salt and shells, 366. 



Remains, human, elevated, 



367- . 

 Remedies 



134- 



of the Gauchos, 



Rengger on the horse, 234. 

 Reptiles absent in Tierra del 



Fuego, 239. 



at GalapHgos, 376. 



Respiration difllcult in Andes, 



319- 



