546 



INDEX 



Maldonado, 41, 47, 61, 65, 145 

 Mammalia, fossil, 86, 134, 137, 164, 



182, 183, 395 

 Man, antiquity of, 382 



body frozen, 264 



fossil remains of, 395 



fear of, an acquired instinct, 427 



extinction of races, 463, 476 

 Mandetiba, 20 

 Mandioca or cassava, 23, 27 

 Mare's flesh eaten by troops, 107 

 Mares killed for their hides, 163 

 Mastodon, 134, 137 

 Mate pots and Bambillio, 1 1 8 

 Matter, granular, movements in, 104 

 Mauritius, 513 

 Maypu river, 338 

 Megalonyx, 86, 139 

 Megatherium, 86, ^"^^ 139 

 Mendoza, 352 



climate of, 345 

 Mercedes on the Rio Negro, 156 

 Mexico, elevation of, 139 

 Miasmata, 389, 463 

 Mice inhabit sterile places, 384 



number of, in America, 51 



how transported, 307, 404 



different on opposite sides of Andes, 

 348 



of the Galapagos, 403 



of Ascension, 523 

 Millepora, 493 

 Mills for grinding ores, 284 

 Mimosse, 26 

 Mimus, 56, 420, 424 

 Miners, condition of, 277, 283, 362, 370 

 Mines, 277, 365, 369 



hovsr discovered, 340 

 Miranda, Commandant, 105 

 Missionaries at New Zealand, 446 

 Mitchell, Sir T. , on valleys of Australia, 



466 

 Mocking-bird, 56, 420, 424 

 Molina omits description of certain 



birds, 289 

 Molothrus, habits of, 54 

 Monkeys with prehensile tails, 29 

 Montevideo, 41, 151, 152 

 Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 493 



on coral-reefs, 509 

 Mount Sarmiento, 247, 256 



Tarn, 249 



Victoria, 47 

 Mountains, elevation of, 333 

 Movements in granular matter, 104 

 Mud, chalk-like, 494 



disturbed by earthquake, 328 



Mules, 336 



Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 155 

 Murray, Mr., on spiders, 170 

 Mylodon, 86, 140, 164 

 Myopotamus Coypus, 306 



Narborough Island, 401 

 Negress with goitre, 336 

 Negro, Rio, 65, 192 



lieutenant, 78 

 Nepean river, 444 



New Caledonia, reef of, 499, 501, 507 

 New Zealand, 444 

 Niata cattle, 155 

 Noises from a hill, 385 

 Noses, ceremony of pressing, 451 

 Nothura, 47 



Notopod, crustacean, 171 

 Nulliporse, incrustations like, 9 



protecting reefs, 529 



Octopus, habits of, 7 



Oily coating on sea, 17 



Olfersia, 10 



Opetiorhynchus, 425 



Opuntia, 278 

 Darwinii, 175 

 Galapageia, 427 



Orange-trees self-sown, 126 



Ores, gold, 284 



Ornithology of Galapagos, 404, 420 



Ornithorhynchus, 470 



Osorno, volcano of, 292, 294, 312 



Ostrich, habits of, 44, 94 



Ostrich's eggs, 1 1 9 



Otaheite, 429 



Otter, 307 



Ova in sea, 1 7 



Oven-bird, 99 



Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 

 141 

 Professor, on the Capybara, 51 

 fossil quadrupeds, 86-89, '37 

 nostrils of the Galhnazo, 195 



Owl of Pampas, 73, 132 

 of Galapagos Islands, 406 



Oxyurus,252, 308 



Oysters, gigantic, 180 



Paint, white, 234 

 Pallas on Siberia, 69 

 Palm-trees in La Plata, 48 



south limit of, 260 



in Chile, 272 . 

 Palms absent at Galapagos, 400 

 Pampas, halt at a pulperia on the, 64 



number of embedded remains in, 165 



