INDEX. 
511 
Falconer, Jesuit, on natural enclo- 
sures, 116 
Falkland Islands, 188 
——______—_, birds tame at, 398 
, absence of trees at, 
48 
, carrion-hawks of, 
57 
- ——., wild cattle and 
horses of, 190 
, climate of, 242 
» peat of, 287 
Fat, quantity eaten, 117 
Fear, an acquired instinct, 399 
Februa, 33 
Fennel, run wild, 119 
Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, 366 
Fern-trees, 244, 448 
Fernando Noronha, 11, 374 
Fields of dead coral, 460 
Fire, art of making, 194, 409 
Fish, eating coral, 464 
—— of Galapagos, 390 
— emitting harsh sound, 136 
Flamingoes, 66 
Fleas, 346 
Floods after droughts, 134 
clear after snow, 319 
Flora of the Galapagos, 374, 392, 
395 
—— of Keeling island, 454 
of St. Helena, 487 
Flustracez, 201 
Forests, absence of, in La Plata, 47 
of Tierra del Fuego, 210, 
243, 286 
of Chiloe, 243, 280, 286, 293 
of Valdivia, 298, 361 
of New Zealand, 427 
of Australia, 433 
Fossil Mammalia, 81, 127, 130, 155, 
173 
earthenware, 369 
Fox of the Falkland Islands, 193 
of Chiloe, 280 
Friendly Archipelago, 481 
Frogs, noises of, 29 
—, bladders of, 383 ‘ 
—— and toads, not found on oceanic 
islands, 381 
Frozen soil, 88, 248 
Fruit-trees, southern limit of, 243 
Fucus giganteus, 239 
Fuegians, 204 to 234 
Fulgurites, 59 
Fungus, edible, 236 
Furnarius, 95 
Galapagos Archipelago, 372; natural 
history of, 377 
——— belongs to American Zoo- 
logy, 377, 393 
Gale of wind, 217, 281 
Gallegos River, fossil bones at, 171 
Gallinazo, 55 
Gauchos, 42, 155 
, character of, 156 
live on meat, 117 
Gay, M., on floating islands, 265 
, on shells"in brackish water, 
21 
Geese at the Falkland Islands, 199 
Geographical distribution of Ameri- 
can animals, 131, 326 
of frogs, 
381 
of fauna 
of Galapagos, 393 
Geology of Cordillera, 319, 332 
——— of Patagonia, 170, 181 
of St. Jago, 6 
of St. Paul, 8 
of B. Blanca, 81 
—— of Pampas, 129 
of Brazil, 12 
Georgia, climate of, 248 
Geospiza, 379, 395 
Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, 
358 
Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, 323 
Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 224, 
245 
———— in Cordillera, 324 
in lat. 46° 40/, 246 
Glow-worms, 30 
Goats, destructive to vegetation at St. 
Helena, 489 
, bones of, 168 
Goitre, 314 
Gold-washing, 266 
Good Success Bay, 204 
Gossamer spider, 159 
Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, 125 
——-————, on birds of Galapagos, 
379 
Granite mountains, Tres Montes, 283 
—— of Cordillera, 320 
Graspus, 10 
