Voyage of the Beagle (86 page)

BACHMAN, Mr., on carrion-hawks,
195
Bahia Blanca,
50
,
70
,
77
to 110
    fossil tooth of horse from,
138
Bahia, Brazil,
11
    scenery of,
526
Bajada,
136
Balbi on coral reefs,
499
Bald Head, Australia,
479
Ballenar, Chile,
373
Banda Oriental,
48
,
152
,
158
,
186
Banks's Hill,
221
Barking-bird,
307
Barrier-reef, Bolabola,
    reefs, sections of,
500
Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz,
182
Bathurst, Australia,
470
Batrachian reptiles,
101
Bats, vampire,
22
,
23
Bay of Islands, New Zealand,
444
Beads, hill of,
158
Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego,
230
Beech-trees,
251
,
292
Beetles in brackish water,
22
    on a fungus,
32
    alive in sea,
168
    at St. Julian,
180
    dung-feeders,
520
,
521
Behring's Straits, fossils of,
140
Bell of Quillota,
270
Benchuca,
352
Berkeley Sound,
199
,
214
    Rev. J., on Confervæ,
15
        on Cyttaria,
250
Berquelo river,
158
Bibron, M.,
407
Bien te veo,
56
Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago,
405
    tameness of,
424
Birgos latro,
492
,
512
Bizcacha, habits of,
73
,
130
,
273
Blackheath, Australia,
466
Blackwall, Mr., on spiders,
171
Blindness of tucutuco,
53
Blue Mountains,
465
Body, frozen,
93
,
263
Bolabola, barrier-reef,
498
,
504
Bolas, manner of using,
46
,
117
Bombs, volcanic,
524
Bones of the guanaco collected in certain spots,
177
    fire made of,
205
    recent in Pampas,
142
    fossil,
86
,
134
,
137
,
164
,
182
Bory St. Vincent on frogs,
407
Boulders,
197
,
262
Bramador, El,
358
Brazil, great area of granite,
12
Brazilian whips, etc.,
75
Breaches in coral reefs,
502
Breakwater of seaweed,
253
Brewster, Sir D., on a calcareous deposit,
10
Bridge of hide,
334
    of Incas,
357
,
380
,
394
Buckland, Dr., on fossils,
140
Buenos Ayres,
127
    trading at,
111
    evening camp,
128
    bullock-waggons,
150
Buffon on American Animals,
183
Bug of Pampas,
352
Buildings, Indian,
381
to 383,
394
Bulimus on desert places,
371
Burchell, Mr., on food of quadrupeds,
91
    on ostrich-eggs,
95
    on perforated stones,
285
Butterflies, flocks of,
167
Butterfly producing clicking sound,
34
Button, Jemmy,
218
Byron's account of fox of Falklands,
204
    on an Indian killing his child,
228

CABBAGE PALM,
26
Cacti,
174
,
278
,
399
Cactornis,
405
,
424
Cactus, Cereus Peruviana,
278
Calasoma on wing out at sea,
168
Calcareous casts of branches and roots of trees at King George's Sound,
479
    incrustations on rocks of Ascension,
9
Callao,
389
,
391
Calodera,
132
Calomys bizcacha,
130
Camarhynchus,
405
,
424
Camelidæ, fossil animal allied to,
182
Cancer salinus,
69
Canis antarcticus,
204
    fulvipes,
287
Cape Horn,
222
,
223
    False Horn,
229
,
243
    of Good Hope,
91
Capybara, or carpincho,
40
,
51
,
182
,
307
    fossil allied to,
87
Caracara, or Carrancha,
57
Cardoon, beds of,
125
,
157
Carizal,
371
Carmichael, Capt.,
426
Carrion-hawks,
59
,
126
,
195
Casarita,
99
Cassava,
23
Castro, Chiloe,
296
,
315
    old church at,
291
Casuchas,
358
Catamaran,
18
Cathartes,
60
,
195
Cats run wild,
123
,
523
    good to eat,
123
    scratch trees,
144
    cruelty to mice,
209
Cattle, effects of their grazing on the vegetation,
124
    killed by great droughts,
142
,
156
    know each other,
155
    curious breed of,
155
    waste of,
158
    wild at the Falkland Islands,
200
,
203
Caucahue,
295
Cauquenes, hot springs of,
281
Causes of extinction of species among mammalia,
182
    of discoloured sea,
15
Cavia Patagonica,
72
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,
529
Cladonia,
387
Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, in Chile,
271
Climate of Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands,
257
    Antarctic Islands,
263
    change of, in Chile,
382
    Galapagos,
397
Clouds of vapour after rain,
25
    on Corcovado,
30
    hanging low,
389
    at sea,
429
Coloeoptera 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
Confervæ, 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
Copiapó, 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,
334
    structure of valleys,
335
    rivers of,
338
    geology of,
339
,
354
,
355
    valley of Copiapó,
385
    mountains,
435
Cormorant catching fish,
209
Corral, where animals are slaughtered at Buenos Ayres,
127
Corrientes, Cape,
168
Corrobery, or native Australian dance,
479
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
Cruelty to animals,
162
Crustacea, pelagic,
171
Ctenomys Brasiliensis,
52
    fossil species of,
86
Cucao, Chiloe,
315
Cuckoo-like habits of Molothrus,
55
Cudico, mission at,
320
Cuentas, Sierra de,
158
Cufre,
153
Cumbre of Cordillera,
358
Cuming, Mr., on shells,
416
,
520
Cuttlefish, habits of,
7
Cuvier on Diodon,
14
Cynara cardunculus,
125
Cyttaria Darwinii,
250
,
251

DACELO IAGOENSIS,
2
Dasypus, three species of,
100
Deer,
50
,
139
Degradation of tertiary formations,
368
Deinornis,
455
Deserts,
371
,
384
Desmodus,
22
Despoblado, valley of,
379
Dieffenbach, Dr., E.,
2
    on Auckland Island,
259
,
464
Diodon, habits of,
13
Discoloured sea,
15
Diseases from miasma,
389
,
464
Distribution of mammalia in America,
138
    of animals on opposite sides of Cordillera,
348
    of frogs,
407
    of Fauna of Galapagos,
419
Dobrizhoffer on ostriches,
98
    on a hail-storm,
122
Docks, imported,
455
Dogs, shepherd,
159
Dolichonyx oryzivorus,
404
D'Orbigny, Travels in South America,
81
,
97
,
125
,
137
,
159
,
177
Doris, eggs of,
211
Dormidor, or horse-tamer,
160
Doubleday, Mr., on a noise made by a butterfly,
34
Drigg, lightning tubes at,
61
Droughts, great, in Pampas,
141
Dryness of St. Jago,
4
    of winds in Tierra del Fuego,
245
    of air in Cordillera,
348
Dubois,
407
Dung-feeding beetles,
520
,
521
Dust, falling from atmosphere,
5

EARTHENWARE, fossil,
394
Earthquake, accompanied by an elevation of the coast,
331
    accompanied by rain,
375
    at Callao,
393
    at Concepcion,
325
    at Coquimbo,
366
    at Keeling and Vanikoro, and Society Islands,
504
    at Valdivia,
322
    causes of,
330
    effect of, on springs,
281
    on bottom of sea,
327
    effects of, on rocks,
274
,
324
    effects of, on sea,
323
,
324
,
325
    effects of, on a river-bed,
381
    line of vibration of,
328
    on S.W. coast,
260
    tossing fragments from the ground,
208
    twisting movement of,
328
Eggs of Doris,
211
Ehrenberg, Prof., on Atlantic dust,
5
    on infusoria in Pampas,
87
,
137
        in the open sea,
172
        in Patagonia,
180
        in Fuegian paint,
234
        in coral mud,
494
        in tuff at Ascension,
525
    on phosphorescence of the sea,
172
    on noises from a hill,
385
Eimeo, island of,
432
; barrier-reef,
433
Elater, springing powers of,
32
Electricity of atmosphere within Andes,
348
Elephant, weight of,
91
Elevated shells,
89
,
136
,
180
,
266
,
313
,
331
,
367
,
393
Elevation of coasts of Chile,
266
,
313
,
323
,
331
,
355
,
367
,
381
    Bahia Blanca,
87
    Pampas,
137
    Patagonia,
180
,
395
    mountain-chains,
333
    Cordillera,
338
,
343
,
354
    Peru,
393
    within human period,
395
    fringing-reefs,
508
Entomology of the Galapagos Archipelago,
407
,
418
,
420
    Brazil,
34
    Patagonia,
180
,
349
    Tierra del Fuego,
253
    Keeling Island,
485
    St. Helena,
520
Entre Rios, geology of,
132
Epeira, habits of,
37
to 39
Erratic blocks, how transported,
262
    absent in intertropical countries,
263
    on plains of Santa Cruz,
196
    of Tierra del Fuego,
262
Estancia, value of,
154
Extermination of species and races,
183
,
462
,
469
,
476
Extinction of shells at St. Helena,
520
    of species, causes of,
183
    of man in New South Wales,
462
,
476
Eyes of tucutuco and mole,
53
Eyre Sound,
260