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INDEX. 
Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 161 
Blindness of tucutuco, 52 
Body, frozen, 89, 249 
Bolabola, 469, 473 
Bolas, manner of using, 44, 111 
Bombs, volcanic, 493 
Bones of the guanaco collected in cer- 
tain spots, 167 
, fire made of, 194 
——-, recent in Pampas, 134 
, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173 
Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 381 
Boulders, 187, 247 
Bramador, El, 361 
Brazil, great area of granite, 12 
Breaches in coral reefs, 476 
Breakwater of sea-weed, 240 
Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous de- 
posit, 10 : 
Bridge of hide, 262 
of Incas, 334, 356 
Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 132 
Buenos Ayres, 121 
- Buffon on American animals, 173 ° 
Bug of Pampas, 330 
Buildings, Indian, 
368 
Bulimus on desert places, 347 
Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 
87 
356 to 359, 
) on ostrich-eggs, 91 
, on perforated stones, 
267 
Butterflies, flocks of, 158 
Butterfly producing clicking sound, 
33 
Button, Jemmy, 207 
Byron’s account of fox of Falklands, 
194 
onan Indian killing his child, 
216 
Cacti, 165, 261, 374 
~ Cactornis, 379, 394 
Calasoma on wing out at sea, 158 
Calcareous casts of branches and roots 
of trees at King George’s Sound, 
450 
Caleareous incrustations on rocks of 
Ascension, 9 
Callao, 365 
Calodera, 125 
Calomys bizeacha, 124 
Camarhynchus, 379, 394 
Camelide, fossil animal allied to, 172 
Canis antarcticus, 193 
Canis fulvipes, 280 
Capybara, or carpincho, 49, 287 
—, fossil allied to, 82 
Cape Horn, 211 
Cape of Good Hope, 85 
Caracara, or Carrancha, 55 
Cardoon, beds of, 119, 148 
Carmichael, Capt., 392 
Carrion-hawks, 55, 120, 184 
Casarita, 95 
Castro, Chiloe, 278, 294 
Casts of trees, 450 
Casuchas, 335 
Cathartes, 58, 184, 284 
Cats run wild, 120, 493 
—— good to eat, 117 
—— scratch trees, 136 
——, cruelty to mice, 199 
Cattle, effects of their grazing on the 
vegetation, 118 
killed by great droughts, 134, 
146 
know each other, 145 
, curious breed of, 145 
, waste of, 149 
wild atthe Falkland Islands, 
190, 192 
Cauquenes, hot springs of, 263 
Causes of extinction of species among 
mammalia, 173 
of discoloured sea, 14 
Cavia Patagonica, 69 
Cervus campestris, 48 
Ceryle Americana, 138 
Chacao, Chiloe, 274 
Chagos atolls, 478 
Chalk-like mud, 465 
Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 
454, 461 
on coral reefs, 467 
Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 
120 
- in vegetation of St. Helena, 
489 
Charles Island, Galapagos Archipe- 
lago, 375 
Cheese, salt required for, 66 
Cheucau, 278, 288 
Chile, 252, 337 
, features of country, 254 
Chiloe, 273 
——-, forests of, and climate, 248 
