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INDEX 
Maldonado, 41, 47, 61, 65, 145 
Mammalia, fossil, 86, 134, 137, 164, 
182, 183, 395 
Man, antiquity of, 382 
body frozen, 264 
fossil remains of, 395 
fear of, an acquired instinct, 427 
extinction of races, 463, 476 
Mandetiba, 20 
Mandioca or cassava, 23, 27 
Mare’s flesh eaten by troops, 107 
Mares killed for their hides, 163 
Mastodon, 134, 137 
Mate pots and Bambillio, 118 
Matter, granular, movements in, 104 
Mauritius, 513 
Maypu river, 338 
Megalonyx, 86, 139 
Megatherium, 86, 88, 139 
Mendoza, 352 
climate of, 345 
Mercedes on the Rio Negro, 156 
Mexico, elevation of, 139 
Miasmata, 389, 463 
Mice inhabit sterile places, 384 
number of, in America, 51 
how transported, 307, 404 
different on opposite sides of Andes, 
348 
of the Galapagos, 403 
of Ascension, 523 
Millepora, 493 
Mills for grinding ores, 284 
Mimosse, 26 
Mimus, 56, 420, 424 
Miners, condition of, 277 > 283, 362, 370 
Mines, 277, 365, 369 
how discovered, 340 
Miranda, Commandant, 105 
Missionaries at New Zealand, 446 
Mitchell, Sir T., on valleys of Australia, 
466 
Mocking-bird, 56, 420, 424 
Molina omits description of certain 
birds, 289 
Molothrus, habits of, 54 
Monkeys with prehensile tails, 29 
Montevideo, 41, 151, 152 
Moresby, Capt., on a great crab, 493 
on coral-reefs, 509 
Mount Sarmiento, 247, 256 
Tarn, 249 
Victoria, 47 
Mountains, elevation of, 333 
Movements in granular matter, 104 
Mud, chalk-like, 494 
disturbed by earthquake, 328 
Mules, 336 
Muniz, Sig., on niata cattle, 155 
Murray, Mr., on spiders, 170 
Mylodon, 86, 140, 164 
Myopotamus Coypus, 306 
Narborough Island, 401 
Negress with goitre, 336 
Negro, Rio, 65, 192 
lieutenant, 78 
Nepean river, 444 
New Caledonia, reef of, 499, 501, 507 
New Zealand, 444 
Niata cattle, 155 
Noises from a hill, 385 
Noses, ceremony of pressing, 451 
Nothura, 47 
Notopod, crustacean, 171 
Nulliporm, incrustations like, 9 
protecting reefs, 529 
Octopus, habits of, 7 
Oily coating on sea, 17 
Olfersia, 10 
Opetiorhynchus, 425 
Opuntia, 278 
Darwinii, 175 
Galapageia, 427 
Orange-trees self-sown, 126 
Ores, gold, 284 
Ornithology of Galapagos, 404, 420 
Ornithorhynchus, 470 
Osorno, volcano of, 292, 294, 312 
Ostrich, habits of, 44, 94 
Ostrich’s eggs, 119 
Otaheite, 429 
Otter, 307 
Ova in sea, 17 
Oven-bird, 99 
Owen, Capt., on a drought in Africa, 
141 
Professor, on the Capybara, 51 
fossil quadrupeds, 86-89, J 37 
nostrils of the Gallinazo, 195 
Owl of Pampas, 73, 132 
of Galapagos Islands, 406 
Oxyurus,252, 308 
Oysters, gigantic, 180 
Paint, white, 234 
Pallas on Siberia, 69 
Palm-trees in La Plata, 48 
south limit of, 260 
in Chile, 272 
Palms absent at Galapagos, 400 
Pampas, halt at a pulperia on the, 64 
number of embedded remains in, 165 
