INDEX 



543 



Mylodon, 94, 143, 169. 

 Myopotamus Coypus, 305. 



Negress with goitre, 333. 

 Negro, Rio, 74, 162. 



lieutenant, 87. 



New Caledonia, reef of, 494, 496, 

 502. 



Zealand, 440. 



Niata cattle, 159. 

 Noises from a hill, 382. 

 Noses, ceremony of pressing, 447. 

 Nothura, 56. 



Notopod, crustacean, 175. 

 Nulliporae, incrustations like, 20. 

 protecting reefs, 524. 



Octopus, habits of, 17. 

 Oily coating on sea, 27. 

 Olfersia, 20. 

 Opetiorhynchus, 306. 

 Opuntia, 278. 



Darwinii, 179. 



Galapageia, 396. 



Orange-trees self-sown, 132. 

 Ores, gold, 283. 



Ornithology of Galapagos, 401, 418. 



Ornithorhynchus, 466. 



Osorno, volcano of, 290, 292, 309. 



Ostrich, habits of, 53, 101. 



Ostriches' eggs, 125. 



Otaheite, 426. 



Otter, 305. 



Ova in sea, 27. 



Oven-bird, 107. 



Owen, Capt, on a drought in Africa, 

 145. 



■ , Professor, on the Capybara, 



60. 



, Professor, on fossil quadru- 

 peds, 93-96, 143. 



■ , Professor, on nostras of the 



Gallinazo, 199. 



Owl of Pampas, 81, 138. 



Oxyurus, 253, 307. 



Oysters, gigantic, 185. 



Paint, white, 236. 



Pallas on Siberia, 78. 



Palm-trees in La Plata, 57. 



— in Chile, 273. 



, south limit of, 260. 



Palms absent at Galapagos, 397. 



Pampas, number of embedded re- 

 mains in, 168. 



, S. limit of, 86. 



, changes in, 132. 



— — not quite level, 135, 139, 156. 



, geology of, 141, 168. 



, view of, from the Andes, 347. 



Papilio feronia, 43. 



Parana, Rio, 138, 131, 160. 



, islands in, 147. 



Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 

 146. 



Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 123. 

 Parrots, 151, 259. 



of 



Partridges, 56. 



Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 442 

 Passes in Cordillera, 353. 

 Pasture, altered from grazing 



cattle, 131. 

 Patagones, 75. 



Patagonia, geology of, 184, 348. 



, zoology of, 179, 184, 193. 



Patagonian Indians, 245. 

 Peach-trees, self-sown, 133. 

 Peat, formation of, 304. 

 Pebbles perforated^ 162, 285. 



transported m roots of trees, 



487- 

 ela 



Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 

 I 75- 



Pelacanoides Berardii, 308. 

 Penas, Gulf of, 263. 

 Penguin, habits of, 214. 

 Pepsis, habits of, 46. 

 Pernambuco, reef of, 524. 

 Pernety on hill of ruins, 213. 



on tame birds, 423. 



Peru, 383-393. 



, dry valleys of, 379, 383. 



Petrels, habits of, 307. 



Peuquenes, pass of, 338. 



Phonolite at F. Noronha, 21. 



Phosphorescence of the sea, 176. 



of a coralline, 217. 



of land insects and sea ani- 

 mals, 40. 



Phryniscus, 100. 



Pine of New Zealand, 451. 



Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 

 279. 335- 



almost horizontal near St. Fe, 



139- . 



Planarias, terrestrial species of, 37. 

 Plants of the Galapagos, 396, 414, 

 419. 



• of Keeling Island, 479. 



of St. Helena, 513. 



Plata, Rio, 49. 



, thunderstorms of, 72. 



Plover, long-legged, 126. 

 Polished rocks, Brazil, 22. 

 Polyborus chimango, 66. 

 — — ■ Novai Zelandias, 68. 



Brasiliensis, 66. 



Ponsonby Sound, 236. 

 Porpoises, 49. 

 Port Desire, 178. 



, river of, 119, 184. 



St. Julian, 184. 



Famine, 249. 



Portillo pass, 339, 344- 

 Porto Praya, I. 

 Potato, wild, 302. 

 Potrero, Seco, 370. 

 Prairies, vegetation of, 132. 

 Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 64. 

 Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 

 70. 



Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 307 

 Proctotretus, no. 

 Proteus, blindness of, 6a, 



