550 



INDEX 



Tattooing, 430, 439 

 Temperance of the Tahitians, 438 

 Temperature of Tierra del Fuego and 

 Falkland Islands, 244 



of Galapagos, 399, 403 

 Tercero, Rio, fossils in banks of, 134 

 Terraces in valleys of Cordillera, 337 



of Patagonia, 181, 190 



of Coquimbo, 367 

 Tertiary formations of the Pampas, 86, 

 136, 165 



of Patagonia, 1 80, 349 



in Chile, epochs of, 368 

 Teru-tero, habits of, 120 

 Testudo, two species of, 420 



Abingdonii, 397 



Nigra, habits of, 408 

 Theory of lagoon-islands, 499 

 Theristicus melanops, 175 

 Thistle beds, 125, 130, 157 

 Thunder-storms, 63 

 Ti, liliaceous plant, 437 

 Tierra del Fuego, 215 to 257 



climate and vegetation of, 250, 257 



zoology of, 251 



entomology of, 253 

 Tinamus rufescens, 119 

 Tinochorus rumicivorus, 98 

 Toad, habits of, loi 



not found in oceanic islands, 407 

 Torrents in Cordillera, 338, 343 

 Tortoise, habits of, 408, 420 

 Toxodon, ?>()^ 134, 137, 164 

 Transparency of air in Andes, 358 



in St. Jago, 4 

 Transport of boulders, 190, 262 



of fragments of rock on banks of the 

 St. Cruz river, 190 



of seeds, 418, 484 



of stones in roots of trees, 491 

 Travertin w^ith leaves of trees, Van 



Diemen's Land, 479 

 Tree-ferns, 478 



southern limits of, 258 

 Trees, absence of, in Pampas, 48 



time required to rot, 322 



silicified, vertical, 376 



size of, 377 



floating, transport stones, 490 

 Tres Montes, 301 

 Trichodesmium, 15 

 Trigonocephalus, 1 00 

 Tristan d'Acunha, 426, 485 

 Trochilus forficatus, 268 

 Tropical scenery, 526 

 Tschudi, M., on subsidence, 393 

 Tubes, siliceous, formed by lightning, 61 



Tucutuco, habits of, 52 



fossil species of, 87 

 Tuff, craters of, 398 



infusoria in, 525 

 Tupungato, volcano of, 347 

 Turco, El, 288 

 Turkey buzzard, 60, 192, 303 

 Turtle, manner of catching, 488 

 Type of organisation in Galapagos 



Islands, American, 423 

 Types of organisation in different 



countries, constant, 182 

 Tyrannus savana, 147 



Ulloa on hydrophobia, 377 



on Indian buildings, 380 

 Unanue, Dr., on hydrophobia, 377 

 Uruguay, Rio, 147, 152 



not crossed by the Bizcacha, 131 

 Uspallata range and pass, 353 



Vac AS, Rio, 355 

 Valdivia, 318 



forests of, 319, 322 

 Valley of St. Cruz, how excavated, 190 



dry, at Copiapo, 380 

 Valleys, excavation of, in Chile, 343, 383 



of New South Wales, 46 



in Cordillera, 343 



of Tahiti, 437, 439 

 Valparaiso, 268, 335 

 Vampire bat, 22, 23 

 Van Diemen's Land, 474 

 Vanellus cayanus, 120 

 Vanessa, flocks of, 168 

 Vanikoro, 500, 504 

 Vapour from forests, 25 

 Vegetation of St. Helena, changes of, 

 519 



luxuriant, not necessary to support 

 large animals, 89 



on opposite sides of Cordillera, 349 

 Ventana, Sierra, 71, 112 

 Verbena melindres, 42 

 Vilipilli, 315 

 Villa Vicencio, 353 

 Villarica volcano, 332 

 Virgin forest, 25 

 Virgularia Patagonica, 104 

 Volcanic bombs, 524 



cellular formation of, 524 



islands, 8 



phenomena, 331 

 Volcanoes near Chiloe, 294, 300, 312, 

 332 



their presence determined by elevation 

 or subsidence, 496 



