548 



INDEX 



Quoy and Gaimard on coral-reefs, 505 



Rabbit, wild, at the Falkland Islands, 



203 

 Rain at Coquimbo, 361, 371, 372 



at Rio, 30 



effects on vegetation, 361 



and earthquakes, 375 



in Chile, formerly more abundant, 38 1 



in Peru, 389, 390 

 Rana Mascariensis, 407 

 Rat, only aboriginal animal of New 



Zealand, 455 

 Rats at Galapagos, 403 



at Keeling Island, 485 



at Ascension, 523 

 Rattlesnake, species with allied habit, 



100 

 Red snow, 345 

 Reduvius, 352 



Reef at Pernambuco of sandstone, 529 

 Reefs of coral, 495 to 512 



barrier, 498, 504 



fringing, 501 

 Reeks, Mr., analysis of salt, 68 



bones, 164 



salt and shells, 394 

 Remains, human, elevated, 394 

 Remedies of the Gauchos, 135 

 Rengger on the horse, 247 

 Reptiles absent in Tierra del Fuego, 

 252 



at Galapagos, 407 

 Respiration difficult in Andes, 344 

 Retrospect, 51 



Revolutions at Buenos Ayres, 149 

 Rhea Darwinii (Avestruz Petise), 1 10 

 Rhinoceroses live in desert countries, 92 



frozen, 93, 264 

 Rhynchops nigra, 145, 146 

 Richardson, Dr., on mice of North 

 America, 404 



on frozen soil, 92, 263 



on eating fat, 123 



on geographical distribution, 139 



on polished rocks, 267 

 Rimsky atoll, 496 

 Rio de Janeiro, 19 to 39 



Botofogo Bay, 19 



Plata, 40 



Negro, 65, 192 



Colorado, 73 



Sauce, 112 



Salado, 124 



S. Cruz, 187 

 River-bed, arched, 383 

 River-couises dry in America, 113 



Ri\'ers, power of, in wearing channels, 



191, 339 

 Rocks burnished with ferruginous matter, 



12 

 Rodents, number of, in America, 51, 1 89 



fossil species of, 87 

 Rolor, General, 149 

 Rosas, General, 73, 116, 149 

 Rozario, 129, 133, 147, 153 

 Ruins of Callao, 391 



of Indian buildings in Cordillera, 380, 



382 



Salado, Rio, 124 

 Saladillo river, 134 

 Salinas at the Galapagos Archipelago, 402 



in Patagonia, 66, 177 

 Sahne efflorescences, 81 

 Salt with vegetable food, 1 16 



superficial crust of, 388 



with elevated shells, 393 

 Salt-lakes, 68, 177, 402 

 San Carlos, 313 



Nicolas, 133, 147 



Felipe, 276 



Pedro, 299 



Pedro, forests of, 299 



Lorenzo Island, 393 

 Sand-dunes, 78 



Sand, hot from sun's rays, at Galapagos 

 Archipelago, 403 



noise from friction of, 385 

 Sandstone of New South Wales, 465 



reef of, 529 

 Sandwich Archipelago, no frogs at, 407 



Land, 263 

 Santa Cruz, river of, 187 

 Santiago, Chile, 282 

 Sarmiento, Mount, 247, 256 

 Sauce, Rio, 112, 371 

 Saurophagus sulphureus, 55 

 Scarus eating corals, 494 

 Scelidotherium, 86 

 Scenery of Andes, 335 to 341 

 Scissor-beak, habits of, 145, 146 

 Scissor-tail, 147 

 Scoresby, Mr., on effects of snow on 



rocks, 340 

 Scorpions, cannibals, 165 

 Scrope, Mr., on earthquakes, 376 

 Scytalopus, 252, 308 

 Sea, open, inhabitants of, 172 



phosphorescence of, 172 



explosions in, 327 

 Sea-pen, habits of, 104, 212 

 Seals, number of, 303 

 Seaweed, growth of, 253 



