488 



Beetles at St. Julian, 1G1 



. . in brackish water, 21 



on a fungus, 31 



Bfhring's Straits, fossils of, 125 

 Bell of Quillota, 243 

 B. nchuca, 316 

 Berkeley Sound, 179 



_, Rev. J., on Confervas, lc 



, on Cyttaria, 225 



Bibron, M., 366, 370 



Bien-te-veo, 51 



Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 



363, 379 



. , tameness of, 382 



Birgos latro, 444 



Bizcacha, habits of, 66, 117 



Blackwall, Mv., on spiders, 153 



Blindness of tucotuco, 49 



Body, frozen, 83, 237 



Bohlbola, 450, 454 



Bolas, manner of using, 42, 105 



Bombs, volcanic, 473 



Bones of the guanaco collected in 



certain spots, 159 



fire made of, 184 



, fossil, 76, 120, 123, 147, 1G4 



, recent in Pampas, 126 



Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 366 



Boulders, 177, 236 



Bramador, El, 346 



Brazil, great area of granite, 11 



Breaches in coral reefs, 457 



Breakwater of sea- weed, 228 



Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous 



deposit, 9 

 Bridge of hide, 251 



. of Incas, 320, 341 



Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 125 

 Buenos Ay res, 114 

 Buffon on Americau animals, 165 

 Bug of Pampas, 316 

 Buildings, Indian, 341 to 344, 353 

 Bulimus on desert places, 333 

 Burchell, Mr., on food of quadru- 

 peds, 82 



, on ostrich-eggs, 85 



, on perforated stones, 



255 



Butterflies, flocks of, 150 

 Butterfly producing clicking sound, 



31 



Button, Jemmy, 197 

 Byron's account of fox of Falkland*, 



184 



INDEX, 



Byron on an Indian killing his child, 

 205 



Cacti, 157, 249, 359 



Cactoruis, 364, 379 



Calasoma on wing out at sea, 150 



Calcareous casts of branches and 



roots of trees at King George's 



Sound, 432 

 incrustations on rocks of 



Ascension, 9 

 Callao, 349 

 Colodera, 118 

 Calomys bizcacha, 117 

 Carnarhynchus, 364, 379 

 Camelida?, fossil animal allied to, 



164 

 Cauis antarcticus, 184 



fulvipes, 268 

 Capybara, or carpincho, 47, 275 



, fossil allied to, 77 



Cape Horn, 201 



- of Good Hope, 80 

 Caracara, or Carrancha, 52 

 Cardoon, beds of, 112, 141 

 Carmichael, Capt., 3S4 

 Carrion-hawks, 52, 113, 175 

 Casarita, 89 



Castro, Chiloe, 265, 282 

 Casts of trees, 432 

 Casuchas, 321 

 Cathartes, 55, 175, 272 

 Cats run wild, 113, 472 



good to eat, 110 



scratch trees, 128 



, cruelty to mice, 189 



Cattle, effects of their grazing on 

 the vegetation, 112 



killed by great droughts, 

 126, 139 



know each other, 138 



, curious breed of, 138 



, waste of, 141 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 



181, 182 



Cauquenes, hot springs of, 251 

 Causes of extinction of species 



among mammalia, 164 



of discoloured sea, 1 3 



Cavia Patagonica, 65 

 Cervus campestris, 46 

 Ceryle Americana, 130 

 Cliacao, Chiloe, 262 

 Chagns atolls, If.!) 



