538 AN 



Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous 

 deposit, 20. 



Bridge of hide, 279. 



of Incas, 354, 377. 



Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 144. 



Buenos Ayres, 133. 



Buff on on American animals, 187. 



Bug of Pampas, 349. 



Buildings, Indian, 377, 389. 



Bulimus on desert places, 368. 



Burchell, Mr., on food of quadru- 

 peds, 99. 



■ , on ostrich eggs, 103. 



, on perforated stones, 284. 



Butterflies, flocks of, 172. 



Butterfly producing clicking sound, 



^ 44 ' 



Button, Jemmy, 222. 



Byron's account of fox of Falk- 



lands, 208. 

 Byron on an Indian killing his 



child, 23.1. 



Cacti, i79> 277, 396. 



Cactornis, 401, 418. 



Calcareous casts of branches and 

 roots of trees at King George's 

 Sound, 475. 



Calosoma on wing out at sea, 172. 



incrustations on rocks of As- 

 cension, 20. 



Callao, 386. 



Calodera, 137. 



Calomys bizcacha, 136. 



Camarhynchus, 402, 418. 



Camelidse, fossil animal allied to, 

 186. 



Canis antarcticus, 208. 



— ■ — fulvipes, 297. 



Capybara, or carpincho, 60, 305. 



fossil allied to, 94. 



Cape Horn, 226. 



of Good Hope, 97. 



Caracara, or Carrancha, 66. 

 Cardoon, beds of, 131, 161. 

 Carmichael, Capt., 424. 

 Carrion-hawks, 66, 132, 198. 

 Casarita, 107. 

 Castro, Chiloe, 29 5, 3i 2 - 

 Casts of trees, 474. 

 Casuchas, 355. 

 Cathartes, 69, 199, 302. 

 Cats run wild, 132, 519. 



good to eat, 128. 



scratch trees, 148. 



cruelty to mice, 214. 



Cattle, effects of their grazing on 



the vegetation, 130. 

 killed by great droughts, 145, 



160. 



know each other, 158. 



, curious breed of, 158. 



, waste of, 162. 



wild at the Falkland Islands, 



205, 206. 

 Cauquenes, hot springs of, 280. 



Causes of extinction of species among 



mammalia, 188. 



of discoloured sea, 26. 



Cavia Patagonica, 81. 



Cervus campestris, 59. 



Ceryle Americana, 151. 



Chacao, Chiloe, 292. 



Chagos, atolls, 504. 



Chalk-like mud, 490. 



Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 



480, 487. 



on coral reefs, 492. 



Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 



131. 



of St. Helena, 516. 



Charles Island, Galapagos Archi- 

 pelago, 397- . , , 

 Cheese, salt required for, 77. 

 Cheucau, 296, 305. 

 Chile, 269, 357. 



, features of country, 271. 



Chiloe, 291. 



, forests of, and climate, 260. 



, roads of, 291, 310. 



, inhabitants of, 290, 295. 



Chionis, 106. 



Chonos, Archipelago, 298. 



, climate of, 260. 



, ornithology of, 305. 



Chupat, Rio, 119. 

 Cladonia, 384. 



Clearness of atmosphere within An- 

 des, in Chile, 273. 



Climate of Tierra del Fuego and 

 Falkland Islands, 259. 



Antarctic Islands, 264. 



Galapagos, 394, 399. 



, change of, in Chile, 378. 



Clouds of vapour after rain, 34. 



on Corcovado, 39. 



hanging low, 388. 



hanging low at sea, 425. 



Coleoptera in Tropics, 44. 



out at sea, 173. 



of St. Julian, 184. 



Colias edusa, flocks of, 172. 



Colnett, Capt., on spawn in sea, 27. 



, on a marine lizard, 408. 



, on transport of seeds, 415. 



Colonia del Sacramiento, 157. 



Colorado, Rio, 82. 



Compound animals, 216. 



Concepcion, Chile, 321. 



Condor, habits of, 196, 200, 287. 



Conferva, pelagic, 25. 



Conglomerate on the Ventana, 121. 



in Cordillera, 338, 339- 



Conurus, 151. 



Convicts of Mauritius, 510. 



, condition of, in New South 



Wales, 469. 



Cook, Capt., on Kelp, 255- 



Copiapo, river and valley of, 371. 



, town of, 375. 



Coquimbo, 364. 



Coral formations, 425, 477-S°9- 

 — - 7 — , stinging species of, 489. 



