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- Blackwall, Mr., on spiders, 161
- Blindness of tucutuco, 52
- Body, frozen, 89, 249
- Bolabola, 469, 473
- Bolas, manner of using, 44, 111
- Bombs, volcanic, 493
- Bones of the guanaco collected in certain spots, 167
- , fire made of, 194
- , recent in Pampas, 134
- , fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173
- Bory St. Vincent on frogs, 38 1
- Boulders, 187, 247
- Bramador, El, 361
- Brazil, great area of granite, 12
- Breaches in coral reefs, 478
- Breakwater of sea-weed, 240
- Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous deposit, 10
- Bridge of hide, 262
- of Incas, 334, 356
- Buckland, Dr., on fossils, 132
- Buenos Ayres, 121
- Buffon on American animals, 173
- Bug of Pampas, 330
- Buildings, Indian, 356 to 359, 368
- Bulimus on desert places, 347
- Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds, 87
- on ostrich-eggs, 91
- on perforated stones, 267
- Butterflies, flocks of, 158
- Butterfly producing clicking sound, 33
- Button, Jemmy, 207
- Byron's account of fox of Falklands, 194
- on an Indian killing his child, 216
- Cacti, 165, 261, 374
- Cactornis, 379, 394
- Calasoma on wing out at sea, 158
- Calcareous casts of branches and roots of trees at King George's Sound, 450
- Calcareous incrustations on rocks of Ascension, 9
- Callao, 365
- Calodera, 1-25
- Calomys bizcacha, 124
- Camarhynchus, 379, 394
- Camelidæ, fossil animal allied to, 172
- Cauis antarcticus, 193
- Canis fulvipes, 280
- Capybara, or carpincho, 49, 287
- , fossil allied to, 82
- Cape Horn, 211
- Cape of Good Hope, 85
- Caracara, or Carrancha, 55
- Cardoou, beds of, 119, 148
- Carmichael, Capt., 392
- Carrion -hawks, 55, 120, 184
- Casarita, 95
- Castro, Chiloe, 278, 294
- Casts of trees, 450
- Casuchas, 335
- Cathartes, 58, 184,284
- Cats run wild, 120, 493
- good to eat, 117
- scratch trees, 136
- , cruelty to mice, 199
- Cattle, effects of their grazing on the vegetation, 118
- killed by great droughts, 134, 146
- know each other, 145
- curious breed of, 145
- , waste of, 149
- wild at the Falkland Islands, 190, 192
- Cauquenes, hot springs of, 263
- Causes of extinction of species among mammalia, 173
- of discoloured sea, 14
- Cavia Patagonica, 69
- Cervus campestris, 48
- Ceryle Americana, 138
- Chacao, Chiloe, 274
- Chagos atolls, 478
- Chalk-like mud, 465
- Chamisso on drifted seeds and trees, 454, 461
- on coral reefs, 467
- Changes in vegetation of Pampas, 120
- in vegetation of St. Helena, 489
- Charles Island, Galapagos Archipelago, 375
- Cheese, salt required for, 66
- Cheucau, 278, 288
- Chile, 252, 337
- , features of country, 254
- Chiloe, 273
- , forests of, and climate, 243
