Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.3)

INDEX. 613 Passes in Cordillera, 408. Pasture, altered from grazing of cattle, 137. Patagonia, geology of, 201. Peat, formation of, 349. Pebbles perforated, 173. transported in roots of trees, 549. Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 190. Penas, Gulf of, 284. Penguin, habits of, 256. Pentand, Mr., on Bolivian Andes, 392. Pepsis, habits of, 40. Pernambuco, 591. reef of, 593. Petrels, habits of, 354. Peuquenes, pass of, 389. Phosphate of lime incrusting rocks, 8. Phosphorescence of sea, 191. Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 402. round the Sierra Ventana, 126. almost horizontal near St. Fe, 146. PlanariEB, terrestrial species of, 30. Plover, long-legged, 133. Polished rocks, Brazil, 12. Polyborus chimango, 66. KoviE ZelandiB, 67. Polyborus Braziliensis, 64. Ponsonby Sound, 240. Porto Praya, 1. Port Desire, 193. , river of, 198. St. Julian, 199. -, entomology of, 200. Famine, 264. Portillo pass, 383, 398. Potato, wild, 347. Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 354. Protococcus nivalis, 394. Pteroptochos, two species of, 329. , three species of, 351. Puffinus cinereus, 354. Puffinuria Berardii, 355. Puma, habits of, 327. , flesh of, 135. Puna, or short respiration, 593. Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 95. Gorda, 438. Pyrophorus luminosus, 35. Quillota, 310. , valley of, 314. iabbit, wild, at the Falkland Islands, 248. Rain at Coquimbo, 422, 425. in Chile, effects on vegetation, 417. Rat, only aboriginal animal of New Zealand, 511. Red snow, 394. Reef at Pernambuco, 590. Reefs, encircling, 555. , barrier, 556_ , fringing, ib. Remedies of the Gauchos, 148. Reptiles absent in Tierradel Fuego, 301. at Galapagos, 472. Respiration, difficult in Andes, 393. Revolution of October, 1833, at Buenos Ayres, 165. Rhinoceroses, live in desert countries, 100, 103, 577. Rhyncops nigra, 161. Rio de Janeiro, 21. Plata, 44. Negro, 73. Colorado, 82. Rocks burnished with ferruginous matter, 12. Rosas, General, 85. Ruins of Callao, 450. of Indian buildings in Cordillera, 409. Ruts worn in lava rocks, 597. St. Helena, 578. — Fe, 147. — Jago, trade. wind, 3. — Paul's rocks, 7. Salado, Rio, 137. Salinas at the Galapagos Archipelago, 459. , at the Rio Negro, 75, Saline efflorescences, 91. Salt-lakes, 75. Sandal-wood trees, dead at Juan Fer- nandez, 583. San Pedro, forests of, 341. Sand, hot from sun's rays, at Galapagos Archipelago, 459. Santa Cruz, river of, 213. Santiago, Chile, 319. Sauce, Rio, 124. Saurophugus sutiihureus, 62. Scenery of Andes, 388, 394. Scissor-tail, 163. Scissor-beak, habits of, 161. Sea-pen, habits of, 117, Shells, land, species,in great numbers, 426. Shepherd dogs, 174. Shiiigle-beds, how deposited, 201, to 206. Siberian animals, how preserved in ice, 293. , preserved in ice, food necessary during their existence, 103. Silicified trees in vertical position, 406. Silurian formations at Falkland Islands, 253. Silurus, habits of, 160. Slavery, 27. Smelling power of carrion hawks, 222.