INDEX. 



495 



Oily coatiug cm sea, 16 



Olfersia, 10 



Opetiorhynchus, 270 



Opimtia, 249 



Darwiuii, 157 



Galapageia, 359 



Orange-trees self-sown, 113 



Ores, gold, 254 



Ornithology of Galapagos, 303, 379 



Ornithorhynchus, 424 



Osoi-no, volcano of, 201, 203, 279 



Ostrich, habits of, 41, 84 



Ostriches' eggs, 107 



Otaheite, 387 



Otter, 275 



Ova in sea, 10 



Oven-bird, 89 



Owen, Capt., on a drought in 

 Africa, 125 



1 , Professor, on the Capybara, 



47 



fossil quadru- 

 peds, 70 to 79, 123, 147 



nostrils of the 



Gallinazo, 176 

 Owl of Pampas, 66, 118 

 Oxyurus, 226, 276 

 Oysters, gigantic, 1 62 



Paint, white, 210 

 1'ullas on Siberia, 62 

 Palm-trees in La Plata, 44 



in Chile, 244 



, south limit of, 232 



Palms absent at Galapagos, 360 

 Pampas, number of embedded re- 

 mains in, 147 



, S. limit of, 70 



, changes in, 113 



not quite level, 117, 120, 



136 



-, geology of, 122, 147 

 , view of, from the Andes, 



314 



Papilio ferouia, 31 

 Parana, Rio, 119, 131, 140 



, islands in, 127 



Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 



126 



Park, Muugo, on eating salt, 104 

 Parrots, 131, 231 

 Partridges, 43 



Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 40 1 

 Parses in Cordillera, 320 



Pasture, altered from grazing of 



cattle, 112 

 Patagones, GO 



Patagonia, geology of, 162, 315 

 , zoology of, 157, 102, 



170 



Patagouian Indians, 220 

 Peuch-trees, self-sown, 113 

 Peat, formation of, 273 

 Pebbles perforated, 142, 255 

 transported in roots of trees, 



443 

 Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 



153 



Penas, Gulf of, 235 

 Penguin, habits of, 189 

 Pepsis, habits of, 34 

 Peruambuco, reef of, 477 

 Pernety on hill of ruins, 180 



on tame birds, 383 



Peru, 347 to 350 



, dry valleys of, 343, 347 



Petrels, habits of, 277 

 Peuquenes, pass of, 300 

 Phonolite at F. Noronha, in 

 Phosphorescence of the sea, 154 



of a coralline, 192 



of land insects and 



sea animals, 28 

 Phryniscus, 91 

 Pine of New Zealand, 410 

 Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 



250, 303 

 almost horizontal near St. 



Fe, 120 



Planarise, terrestrial species of, 25 

 Plants of the Galapagos, 359, 376, 



380 



of Keeling Island, 436 



of St. Helena, 467 



fossil in Australia, 430 



Plata, Eio, 37 



, thunderstorms of, 58 



Plover, long-legged, 108 

 Polished rocks, Brazil, 12 

 Polyborus chimango, 54 



Novae Zelandia3, 51 



Brasiliensis, 52 



Ponsonby Sound, 210 

 Porpoises, 37 

 Port Desire, 156 



, river of, 10*, 101 



St. Julian, 161 



Famine, 222 



