INDEX. 



611 



Elevation within human era, 4.51. 



Entomology of the Galapagos Archipe- 

 lago, 473. 



of Brazil, 37. 



Entre Rios, geology of, 149. 



Epeira, habits of, 40. 



Erratic blocks, how transported, 288. 



absent in intertropical countries, 



288. 



on plains of Santa Cruz, 224. 



of Tierra del Fuego, 267. 



Estancia, value of, 170. 

 Extermination of aborigines in Australia, 

 520. 



Extinction of species, causes of, 210. 

 of wild animals in New South 



Wales, 525. 

 Ex'inct quadrupeds in South America, 95, 



104, 146. 149, 152, 180, 210. 



Falkland Islands, 246. 



, birds tame at, 476. 



Fennel, 138. 

 Fern-trees, 536. 

 Fernando Noronha, 10. 

 Fields of dead coral, 459. 

 Fire, art of making, 251, 488. 

 Fish, eating coral, 553. 



emitting harsh sound, 160. 



Fleas, 424. 



Forests of Tierra del Fuego, 228, 300. 

 Fossil Mammalia, 95, 104, 146, 149, 

 152, 180, 210. 



earthenware, 452. 



Fox, of the Falkland islands, 249. 



of Chiloe, 341. 



Frogs, noises of, 34. 



and toads, not found on volcanic 



islands, 472. 

 Fruit trees, southern limit of, 268. 

 Fucus gigatiteus, 303. 

 Fuegians, 227, 234, 239, 240, 242. 

 Fulgurites, 69. 

 Fungus, edible, 298. 

 Furnariusfuligbiosus, 353. 

 rufus, 112. 



Galapagos Archipelago, 453. 

 belongs to American Zoolo- 

 gical province, 474. 

 Gallinazo, 68. 

 Gauchos, 48. 



character of, 182. 



• live on meat, 136. 



Gay, M., on floating islands, 323. 

 Geese at the Falkland Islands, 257. 

 Geology of La Plata. 52. 

 ■ of Patagonia, 201. 



Geologv of Cordillera, 390. 

 Glaciers, 279. 283, .306. 



effec ts of, 280, 283. 



in lat. 46« 40', 285. 



Glow woruis, 34. 



Goats, destructive to vegetation Rt St. 



Heiena, 582. 

 Goeree Roads, 237. 

 Good Success Bay, 227. 

 Gossamer spider, 187. 

 Granite mountains. Tres Montes, 345. 

 Gravel, how transported. 201 to 206. 

 Greenstone, fragments of, 313. 

 Gryllus migratorius, 412. 

 Guanaco, habits of, 195. 

 Guantajaya, mines of, 444. 

 Guardia del Monte, 137. 

 Guasos of Chile, 315. 

 Guasco, 427. 

 Gunnera scahra, 340. 

 Gypsum, great beds of, 389. 



Hailstorm, 134. 



Hall, Capt. Basils on terraces of Coquim- 

 bo, 423. 



Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 275. 



Hermit crabs, 544. 



Himantopus melanura^ 133. 



Horse, powers of swimming of, 168. 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 248. 



fossil, 149. 



Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 175. 

 Hot springs of Cauquenes, 321. 

 Humming-birds of Rio de .Janeiro, 37. 



of Chile, 330. 



Hunting party in Pampas, 131. 

 Ilyb'-rnation of animals, 115. 

 Hifdroch(Prus capybura, 57. 

 Hydrophobia, 436. 

 Hjmenophailus, 37. 



.Jaguar, habits of, 159. 



James Island, Galapagos Archipelago,458. 



Ibis melaiiops, 194. 



Ice at bottom of sea, 297. 



prismatic structure of, 397. 



Icebergs, 280, 282, 283. 

 Jnca's bridge, 409. 



Incrustations, calcareous on rocks of As- 

 cension, 587. 



of phosphate of lime, 8. 



Indians, 118. 



■ grave of, 199, 



of the Pampas, 84. 



ruins of houses of, 409, 438. 



of Vaidivia, 366. 



antiquities of, in Chile, 325. 



i decrease in numbers, 122. 



