INDEX 



547 



Pampas, S. limit of, 80 



changes in, 1 30 



giant thistle of, 125 



not quite level, 134, 137, 153 



geology of, 136, 165 



view of, from the Andes, 348 

 Pan de Azucar, 47 

 Papilio feronia, 34, 39 

 Parana, Rio, 136, 148, 156 



River, 133 



islands in, 143 

 Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 



142 

 Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 116 

 Parrots, 147, 259 

 Partridges, 47 



Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 445 

 Passes in Cordillera, 356 

 Pasture altered from grazing of cattle, 



124 

 Patagones, 65 

 Patagonia, geology of, 190, 349 



birds of, 93 



zoology of, 174, 180, 189 



raised beaches, 182 

 Patagonian bolas, etc., 248, 249 

 Patagonians, Cape Gregory, 245 

 Paypote ravine, 383 

 Peach-trees self-sown, 126 

 Peat, formation of, 305 

 Pebbles perforated, 158, 285 



transported in roots of trees, 491 

 Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 172 

 Penas, glacier in Gulf of, 261 

 Penguin, habits of, 209 

 Pepsis, habits of, 36 

 Pemambuco, reef of, 529 

 Pernety on hill of ruins, 208 



on tame birds, 425 

 Peru, 386, 396 



dry valleys of, 382, 386 

 Peruvian pottery, 396 

 Petrels, habits of, 309 

 Peuquenes, pass of, 341 

 Phonolite at Fernando Noronha,. 1 1 

 Phosphorescence of the sea, 172 



of land insects and sea animals, 3 1 



of a coralline, 213 

 Phryniscus, loi 

 Pine of New Zealand, 454 

 Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 282, 



337 



almost horizontal near St. F^ 135 

 Planarise, terrestrial species of, 28 

 Plants of the Galapagos, 402, 418, 421 



of Keeling island, 483 



of St. Helena, 517 



Plants, fossil, in Australia, 477 

 Plata, R., 40 



thunderstorms of, 65 

 Plover, long-legged, 120 

 Polished rocks, Brazil, 12 

 Polyborus chimango, 58, 209 



Braziliensis, 57 



Novffi Zelandise, 59 

 Ponsonby Sound, 229, 233, 239, 241 

 Porpoises, 40 

 Port Desire, 97, 174 



river of, 112, 178 



St. Julian, 180 



Famine, 246, 247 



Jackson, 459 

 Portillo Pass, 335 to 352 

 Porto Praya, 2 

 Potato, wild, 304 

 Potrero Seco, 375 

 Prairies, vegetation of, 124 

 Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 55 

 Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 61 

 Prisoner, bringing in a, 84 

 Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 309 

 Proctotretus, 102 

 Proteus, blindness of, 53 

 Protococcus nivalis, 345 

 Pteroptochos, two species of, 288 



species of, 297, 307 

 Puente del Inca, 356, 3S0 

 Puffinuria Berardii, 309 

 Puffinus cinereus, 309 

 Puma, habits of, 144, 193, 287 



flesh of, 122 

 Puna, or short respiration, 344 

 Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 83 



Gorda, 136, 380 



Huantami, 317 

 Pyrophorus luminosus, 32 



Quadrupeds, fossil, 83, 136, 141, 164, 

 182 



large, do not require luxuriant vegeta- 

 tion, 89 



weight of, 91 

 Quartz of the Ventana, 122 



ofTapalguen, 122 



of Falkland Island, 207 

 Quedius, 10 

 Quellaypo volcano, 312 

 Quilimari, 362 

 Quillota, valley of, 270 

 Quinchao Island, 296 

 Quintero, 270 

 Quiriquina Island, 324 

 Quoy and Gaimard on stinging corals, 

 493 



