INDEX. 515 
Pampas, number of embedded re- 
mains In, 155 
, S. limit of, 75 
, changes in, 120 
not quite level, 124, 127, 
143 
, geology of, 129, 155 
, view of, from the Andes, 327 
Papilio feronia, 33 
Parana, Rio, 126, 139, 147 
, islands in, 1384 
Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 
133 
Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 110 
Parrots, 138, 244 
Partridges, 45. 
Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 418 
Passes in Cordillera, 334 
Pasture, altered from grazing of 
cattle, 118 
Patagones, 64 
Patagonia, geology of, 170, 329 
, zoology of, 165, 170, 
179 
Patagonian Indians, 231 
Peach-trees self-sown, 120 
Peat, formation of, 286 
Pebbles perforated, 149, 267 
transported in roots of trees, 
461 
Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 
161 
Penas, Gulf of, 246 
Penguin, habits of, 199 
Pepsis, habits of, 35 
Pernambuco, reef of, 498 
Pernety on hill of ruins, 196 
on tame birds, 398 
Peru, 362 to 371 
—, dry valleys of, 358, 362 
Petrels, habits of, 289 
Peuquenes, pass of, 319 
Phonolite at F. Noronha, 11 - 
Phosphorescence of the sea, 162 
of a coralline, 202 
of land insects and 
sea animals, 30 
Phryniscus, 97 
Pine of New Zealand, 427 
Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 
262, 316 
—— almost horizontal near St. Fé, 
127 
Planaria, terrestrial species of, 26 
Plants of the Galapagos, 374, 392, 
395 
of Keeling island, 454 
of St. Helena, 487 
fossil in Australia, 448 
Plata, R., 39 
—, thunderstorms of, 62 
Plover, long-legged, 114 
Polished rocks, Brazil, 12 
Polyborus chimango, 57 
— Nove Zelandie, 58 
———— Braziliensis, 55 
Ponsonby Sound, 221 
Porpoises, 39 
Port Desire, 164 
——_—_——_-, river of, 107, 168 
— St. Julian, 170 
— Famine, 233 
Portillo pass, 319, 325 
Porto Praya, 1 
Potato, wild, 285 
Potrero Seco, 350 
Prairies, vegetation of, 118 
Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 53 
Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 
59 . 
Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 289 
Proctotretus, 97 
Proteus, blindness of, 52 
Protococcus nivalis, 322 
Pteroptochos, two species of, 270 
——_—_—__—_, species of, 278, 288 
Puente del Inca, 334, 356 
Puffinus cinereus, 290 
Puffinuria Berardii, 291 
Puma, habits of, 136, 183, 269 
, flesh of, 117 
Puna, or short respiration, 322 
Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 81 
—— Gorda, 129, 356 
Pyrophorus luminosus, 31 
Quadrupeds, fossil, 81, 127, 180, 155, 
173 
, large, do not require 
luxuriant vegetation, 85 
_———, weight of, 87 
Quartz of the Ventana, 109 
of Tapalguen, 116 
of Falkland Island, 196 
Quedius, 10 
Quillota, valley of, 254 
Quintero, 254 
Quiriquina Island, 302 
