INDEX 
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Causes of extinction of species among 
mammalia, 182 
of discoloured sea, 15 
Cavia Patagonica, 7 2 
Cawa-Cawa, New Zealand, 456 
Caylen, 298 
Cervus campestris, 50 
Ceryle Americana, 147 
Chacao, Chiloe, 293 
Chagos atolls, 508 
Chalk-like mud, 494 
Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 
484, 491 
on coral reefs, 496 
Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 
126 
in vegetation of St. Helena, 519 
Charles Island, 400, 420 
Chatham Island, 399, 420 
Cheese, salt required for, 68 
Cheucau, 297, 307 
Chile, 268, 271, 274 
features of country, 270 
Chilenos, 194, 337 
Chilian miner, 277 
spurs, stirrup, etc., 290 
vegetation, 359 
Chiloe, 291 
old church at Castro, 291 
forests of, and climate, 292 
inhabitants of, 292, 294 
roads of, 293, 313, 314 
Gunnera scabra, 310 
Chionis alba, 98 
Cholechel, conflict at, 109 
Chonos Archipelago, 300, 304 
climate of, 292 
zoology of, 306 
ornithology of, 307 
Chupat, Rio, 110 
Chuzo, 66 
Cicada homoptera, 5 2 9 
Cladonia, 387 
Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, 
in Chile, 271 
Climate of Tierra del Fuego and Falk- 
land Islands, 257 
Antarctic Islands, 263 
change of, in Chile, 382 
Galapagos, 397 
Clouds of vapour after rain, 2 5 
on Corcovado, 30 
hanging low, 389 
at sea, 429 
Coleoptera in Tropics, 35 
out at sea, 168 
of St. Julian, 180 
Colias edusa, flocks of, 168 
Colnett, Capt., on spawn in sea, 17 
on a marine lizard, 411 
on transport of seeds, 418 
Colonia del Sacramiento, 153 
Colorado, Rio, 73 
Compound animals, 211 
Concepcion, Chile, 325 
Conchalee, 362 
Condor, habits of, 193, 196, 287 
(Sarcorhamphus gryphus), 187 
Confervse, pelagic, 15 
Conglomerate on the Ventana, 113 
in Cordillera, 342 
Conurus, 147 
Convicts of Mauritius, 514 
condition, in New South Wales, 473 
Cook, Capt., on kelp, 253 
Copiapo, river and valley of, 366, 370, 
375 , 385 
town of, 374, 378 
Coquimbo, 22, 365 
Coral formations, 429, 502 to 509 
stinging species of, 493 
reefs, sections of, 502, 508 
dead, 508 
Corallines, 207 
Corals, 507 
Corcovado, clouds on, 30 
volcano, 304 
Cordillera, appearance of, 269, 292, 337 
different productions on east and west 
side, 345 
passage of, 354 
structure of valleys, 335 
rivers of, 338 
geology of, 339, 354, 355 
valley of Copiapo, 385 
mountains, 435 
Cormorant catching fish, 209 
Corral, where animals are slaughtered at 
Buenos Ayres, 127 
Corrientes, Cape, 168 
Corrobery, or native Australian dance, 
4 79 
Corunda, 135 
Coseguina, eruption of, 312, 376 
Countries, unhealthy, 389 
Couthouy, Mr., on coral-reefs, 504 
Crabberies, 83 
Crabs, hermit species of, 486 
at St. Paul’s, 10 
at Keeling Island, 492 
Craters, number of, at the Galapagos 
Archipelago, 398 
of Elevation, 515 
Crisia, 211 
