INDEX 
547 
Pampas, S. limit of, 80 
changes in, 130 
giant thistle of, 125 
not quite level, 134, 137, 153 
geology of, 136, 165 
view of, from the Andes, 348 
Pan de Azucar, 47 
Papilio feronia, 34, 39 
Parana, Rio, 136, 148, 156 
River, 133 
islands in, 143 
Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 
142 
Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 116 
Parrots, 147, 259 
Partridges, 47 
Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 445 
Passes in Cordillera, 356 
Pasture altered from grazing of cattle, 
124 
Patagones, 65 
Patagonia, geology of, 190, 349 
birds of, 93 
zoology of, 174, 180, 189 
raised beaches, 182 
Patagonian bolas, etc., 248, 249 
Patagonians, Cape Gregory, 245 
Paypote ravine, 383 
Peach-trees self-sown, 126 
Peat, formation of, 305 
Pebbles perforated, 158, 285 
transported in roots of trees, 491 
Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 172 
Penas, glacier in Gulf of, 261 
Penguin, habits of, 209 
Pepsis, habits of, 36 
Pernambuco, reef of, 5 2 9 
Pernety on hill of ruins, 208 
on tame birds, 425 
Peru, 386, 396 
dry valleys of, 382, 386 
Peruvian pottery, 396 
Petrels, habits of, 309 
Peuquenes, pass of, 341 
Phonolite at Fernando Noronha, 11 
Phosphorescence of the sea, 172 
of land insects and sea animals, 31 
of a coralline, 213 
Phryniscus, 101 
Pine of New Zealand, 454 
Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 282 
337 
almost horizontal near St. Fe, 135 
Planariae, terrestrial species of, 28 
Plants of the Galapagos, 402, 418, 421 
of Keeling island, 483 
of St. Helena, 517 
Plants, fossil, in Australia, 477 
Plata, R., 40 
thunderstorms of, 65 
Plover, long-legged, 120 
Polished rocks, Brazil, 12 
Polyborus chimango, 583 20 9 
Braziliensis, 57 
Novse Zelandiae, 59 
Ponsonby Sound, 229, 233, 239, 241 
Porpoises, 40 
Port Desire, 97, 174 
river of, 112, 178 
St. Julian, 180 
Famine, 246, 247 
Jackson, 459 
Portillo Pass, 335 to 352 
Porto Praya, 2 
Potato, wild, 304 
Potrero Seco, 375 
Prairies, vegetation of, 124 
Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 55 
Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 61 
Prisoner, bringing in a, 84 
Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 309 
Proctotretus, 102 
Proteus, blindness of, 53 
Protococcus nivalis, 345 
Pteroptochos, two species of, 288 
species of, 297, 307 
Puente del Inca, 356, 380 
Puffinuria Berardii, 309 
PufEnus cinereus, 309 
Puma, habits of, 144, 193, 287 
flesh of, 122 
Puna, or short respiration, 344 
Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 83 
Goixla, 136, 380 
Pluantamo, 317 
Pyrophorus luminosus, 32 
Quadrupeds, fossil, 83, 136, 141, 164, 
182 
large, do not require luxuriant vegeta¬ 
tion, 89 
weight of, 91 
Quartz of the Ventana, 122 
of Tapalguen, 122 
of Falkland Island, 207 
Quedius, 10 
Quellaypo volcano, 312 
Quilimari, 362 
Quillota, valley of, 270 
Quinchao Island, 296 
Quintero, 270 
Quiriquina Island, 324 
Quoy and Gaimard on stinging corals, 
493 
