INDEX TO MR. DARWIN’S JOURNAL.

Aborigines banished from Van Diemen’s Land, 533.

—— of New South Wales, 519.

—— extermination of, 520.

Absence of coral formations in certain seas, 562.

—— of trees in Pampas, 53.

Aconcagua, river of, 415.

——, volcano of, 308.

Advice to collectors, 598.

Africa, Southern part desert, yet supports large animals, 98.

Agouti, habits of, 81.

Albemarle Island, 457.

Alcedo Americana, 162.

Alluvium stratified in Andes, 387.

Amblyrhyncus subcristatus, 469.

—— cristatus, 466.

Anas brachyptera, 457.

Animal, extinct, allied to the Camelidæ, 208.

Animalcula, pelagic, 16.

Angra, capital of Terceira, 594.

Antarctic islands, 272.

Antipodes, 496.

Ants of Brazil, 37.

Apires, or miners, 420.

Aplysia, 5.

Apple-trees, 363.

Aptenodytes demersa, 256.

Areas of alternate movements in the Pacific and Indian oceans, 563.

Armadillo-like covering of fossil animals in South America, 181.

Armadilloes, habits of, 113.

Arrow-head found in Pampas, 123.

Ascension, 586.

Australia, 515.

Australian barrier, 556.

Azores, 594.

Bahia Blanca, 89-123.

Bahia, Brazil, 11.

——, scenery of, 589.

Bald Head, Australia, 537.

Ballenar, Chile, 428.

Banda Oriental, 169.

Barking bird, 352.

Basaltic platform of Santa Cruz, 216.

Bathurst, Australia, 528.

Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 496.

Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 237.

——, scenery of, 240.

Beetles alive in sea, 186.

Beetles, dung-feeders, 583.

Bell of Quillota, 312.

Berkeley Sound, 245.

Birds, species peculiar to certain islands in the Galapagos Archipelago, 475.

Birds, tameness of, 475.

Birgos latro, 551.

Bizcacha, habits of, 143.

Bolas, manner of using, 50.

Bones, of the guanaco collected in certain spots, 197.

Boulders of Tierra del Fuego, 267.

Bramador, El, 441.

Brazil, great area of granite, 12.

Buenos Ayres, 140.

Bug of Pampas, 403.

Bulimus, on desert places, 426.

——, extinct species of, 582.

Burchell, Mr., travels of, 101.

Butterflies, flocks of, 185.

Butterfly producing clicking sound, 38.

Bynoe, Mr., account of floating ice, 283.

Cacti, 318.

Calasoma, on wing out at sea, 185.

Calcareous casts of branches and roots of trees at King George’s Sound, 537.

Calcareous incrustations on rocks of Ascension, 587.

Callao, 446.

Calomys bizcacha, 143.

Camelidæ, fossil animal allied to, 210.

Cape of Good Hope, 573.

Capybara, or carpincho, 57.

Caracara, or Carrancha, 64.

Carcharias megalodon, 423.

Cardoon, beds of, 138.

Carrion hawks, 63.

Casuchas, 413.

Castro, Chiloe, 338.

Cathartes atratus, 68.

Cattle, effects of their grazing on the vegetation, 137.

Cattle wild at the Falkland Islands, 247.

Cauquenes, hot springs of, 321.

Cause of extinction of species among mammalia, 210.

—— of discoloured sea, 18.

Cavia Patagonica, 81.

Cervus campestris, 51.

Chacao, Chiloe, 335.

Chalk, formation of, 553.

Charles Island, Galapagos Archipelago, 456.

Cheucau, 351.

Chile, 308.

——, features of country, 311.

Chiloe, 333, 356.

——, forests of, 358.

——, roads of, 357.

Chonos Archipelago, 342.

—— ——, vegetation of, 349.

—— ——, ornithology of, 353.

Chupat, Rio, 125.

Clearness of atmosphere within Andes, 398.

Clouds of vapour after rain, 27.

—— on Corcovado, 33.

Colias edusa, flocks of, 185.

Collectors, advice to, 598.

Concluding remarks, 602.

Colonia del Sacramiento, 169.

Compound animals, 261.

Concepcion, Chile, 370.

Condor, habits of, 219.

Confervæ, pelagic, 14.

Convicts, condition of in New South Wales, 531.

Copiapó, river of, 429.

——, valley of, 430.

——, town of, 437.

Coquimbo, 421.

Coral formations, 539.

——, stinging species of, 552.

——, dead, 549.

Cordillera, passage of, 383.

——, different productions on east and west side, 399.

——, structure of, 389.

——, geology of, 390.

——, rivers of, 407.

Corrales, where animals are slaughtered at Buenos Ayres, 140.

Countries, unhealthy, 446.

Crabs, hermit species of, 544.

—— at Keeling Island, 551.

Craters, number of at the Galapagos Archipelago, 453.

Crustacea, like trilobites, 303.

——, pelagic, 189.

Ctenomys Braziliensis, 58.

Cucao, Chiloe, 359.

Cuckoo-like habits of Molothrus, 60.

Cumbre of Cordillera, 414.

Cuttle-fish, habits of, 6.

Dacelo Jagoensis, 2.

Dasypus, three species of, 113.

Deer, with strong odour, 56.

Degradation of coral reefs, 547.

Deserts of Peru, 444.

Despoblado, valley of, 437.

Diodon, habits of, 13.

Discoloured sea, 18.

Dogs, shepherd, 174.

D’Orbigny, travels in South America, 110.

Doris, eggs of, 258.

Droughts, periodical, 157.

——, great in Pampas, 155.

Dung-feeding beetles, 583.

Dust, falling from atmosphere, 4.

Earthenware fossil, 452.

Earthquake at Concepcion, 370.

——, effects of on hard rock, 370.

——, effects of on sea, 373, 377.

——, line of vibration of, 375.

—— accompanied by an elevation of the coast, 379.

——, causes of, 380.

—— at Valdivia, 369.

——, effects of on the tides, 369.

——, at Coquimbo, 422.

——, effects of on a river-bed, 413.

—— of Callao, 450.

—— accompanied by rain, 431.

Eggs of Doris, 258.

Elater, springing powers of, 35.

Electricity of atmosphere, within Andes, 399.

Elevated shells near Lima, 451.

—— —— at Chiloe, 362.

Elevation of coast of Chile, 310, 417.

Elevation within human era, 451.

Entomology of the Galapagos Archipelago, 473.

—— of Brazil, 37.

Entre Rios, geology of, 149.

Epeira, habits of, 40.

Erratic blocks, how transported, 288.

—— —— absent in intertropical countries, 288.

—— —— on plains of Santa Cruz, 224.

—— —— of Tierra del Fuego, 267.

Estancia, value of, 170.

Extermination of aborigines in Australia, 520.

Extinction of species, causes of, 210.

—— of wild animals in New South Wales, 525.

Extinct quadrupeds in South America, 95, 104, 146, 149, 152, 180, 210.

Falkland Islands, 246.

—— ——, birds tame at, 476.

Fennel, 138.

Fern-trees, 536.

Fernando Noronha, 10.

Fields of dead coral, 459.

Fire, art of making, 251, 488.

Fish, eating coral, 553.

——, emitting harsh sound, 160.

Fleas, 424.

Forests of Tierra del Fuego, 228, 300.

Fossil Mammalia, 95, 104, 146, 149, 152, 180, 210.

—— earthenware, 452.

Fox, of the Falkland Islands, 249.

—— of Chiloe, 341.

Frogs, noises of, 34.

—— and toads, not found on volcanic islands, 472.

Fruit trees, southern limit of, 268.

Fucus giganteus, 303.

Fuegians, 227, 234, 239, 240, 242.

Fulgurites, 69.

Fungus, edible, 298.

Furnarius fuliginosus, 353.

—— rufus, 112.

Galapagos Archipelago, 453.

—— —— belongs to American Zoological province, 474.

Gallinazo, 68.

Gauchos, 48.

——, character of, 182.

——, live on meat, 136.

Gay, M., on floating islands, 323.

Geese at the Falkland Islands, 257.

Geology of La Plata, 52.

—— of Patagonia, 201.

Geology of Cordillera, 390.

Glaciers, 279, 283, 306.

——, effects of, 280, 283.

—— in lat. 46° 40′, 285.

Glow worms, 34.

Goats, destructive to vegetation at St. Helena, 582.

Goeree Roads, 237.

Good Success Bay, 227.

Gossamer spider, 187.

Granite mountains, Tres Montes, 345.

Gravel, how transported, 201 to 206.

Greenstone, fragments of, 313.

Gryllus migratorius, 412.

Guanaco, habits of, 195.

Guantajaya, mines of, 444.

Guardia del Monte, 137.

Guasos of Chile, 315.

Guasco, 427.

Gunnera scabra, 340.

Gypsum, great beds of, 389.

Hailstorm, 134.

Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of Coquimbo, 423.

Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 275.

Hermit crabs, 544.

Himantopus melanura, 133.

Horse, powers of swimming of, 168.

——, wild at the Falkland Islands, 248.

——, fossil, 149.

Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 175.

Hot springs of Cauquenes, 321.

Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 37.

—— of Chile, 330.

Hunting party in Pampas, 131.

Hybernation of animals, 115.

Hydrochærus capybara, 57.

Hydrophobia, 436.

Hymenophallus, 37.

Ibis melanops, 194.

Ice at bottom of sea, 297.

——, prismatic structure of, 397.

Icebergs, 280, 282, 283.

Inca’s bridge, 409.

Incrustations, calcareous on rocks of Ascension, 587.

—— of phosphate of lime, 8.

Indians, 118.

——, grave of, 199.

—— of the Pampas, 84.

——, ruins of houses of, 409, 438.

—— of Valdivia, 366.

——, antiquities of, in Chile, 325.

——, decrease in numbers, 122.

Insects, first colonists of St. Paul’s rocks, 10.

—— blown out to sea, 186.

Iquique, 442.

Jaguar, habits of, 159.

James Island, Galapagos Archipelago, 458.

Kater’s peak, 233.

Kauri pine, 510.

Keeling Island, 539.

—— ——, birds of, 543.

—— ——, entomology of, 544.

—— ——, Flora of, 541.

Kelp, or sea-weed, 303.

King George’s Sound, 536.

Labourers, condition of, in Chile, 317, 324, 417.

Lagoon islands, 540, 553.

Lakes of brackish water in Brazil, 24.

Lampyris occidentalis, 34.

Lazo, manner of using, 50.

Lepus magellanicus, 248.

Lichen on loose sand at Iquique, 444.

Lightning storms, 72.

—— tubes, 69.

Lima, 446.

Lime changed by lava into crystalline rock, 5.

——, phosphate of, 90.

Lion-ant in Australia, 526.

Lizard, marine species of, 466.

Llama or Guanaco, habits of, 195.

——, fossil species, allied to, 210.

Locusts, swarms of, 402.

Longevity of species in Molluscs, 97.

Lorenzo, San, island of, 451.

Luxuriant vegetation not necessary to support large animals, 98.

Lyell, Mr., on terraces of Coquimbo, 423.

——, on longevity of Molluscs, 97.

——, on Siberian animals preserved in ice, 293.

——, on transportation of boulders by ice, 287.

——, on subsidence in the Pacific, 557.

Madrina, or the godmother of a troop of mules, 384.

Magdalen Channel, 305.

Magellan, Strait of, 263.

Maldonado, 45.

Mammalia fossil, 95, 104, 146, 149, 152, 180, 210.

Mandioca, 25.

Mares, killed for their hides, 179.

Mare’s flesh, eaten by the troops, 83.

Marine Saurian, 466.

Mastodon angustidens, 152.

Mauritius, 570.

Maypo river, 385.

Melisuga Kingii, 330.

Meteorolites, 433.

Mendoza, 404.

Miasmita, 446.

Mice, inhabit sterile places, 439.

Millepora, stinging property of, 552.

Mills for grinding ores, 324.

Milvulus forficatus, 163.

Mines, 424.

——, how discovered, 486.

Miners, 418, 420.

——, condition of, 323.

Mining system in Chile, 317.

Missionary system at Tahiti, 493.

—— —— at New Zealand, 508.

Mocking-bird, 62.

Molothrus, habits of, 60.

Monte Video, 167.

Mount Sarmiento, 306.

—— Tarn, 265.

Mules, 384.

Murchison, Mr., on rocks from Falkland Islands, 253.

Myopotamus Coipus, 351.

New Zealand, 496.

—— Caledonia, 559.

Noctua cunicularia, 145.

Noises from hill at Copiapó, 441.

Noses, ceremony of pressing, 505.

Octopus, habits of, 6.

Oily coating on sea, 19.

Ophryessa, 115.

Opuntia Galapageia, 460.

—— Darwinii, 194.

Ores, gold, 324.

Ornithology of the Galapagos Islands, 461.

Orpheus modulator, 62.

Osorno, volcano of, 356.

Ostrich, habits of, 105.

——, eggs of, 132.

Otaheite, 480.

Otter, Chonos Archipelago, 351.

Owl of Pampas, 145.

Palm-trees, sap from, 312.

Pampas, number of embedded remains in, 155.

Papilio feronia, 38.

Parana, Rio, 146.

——, islands in, 158.

Parrots, 163.

Partridges, how caught, 51.

Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 498.

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.

Planariæ, terrestrial species of, 30.

Plover, long-legged, 133.

Polished rocks, Brazil, 12.

Polyborus chimango, 66.

—— Nova Zelandæ, 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.

Rabbit, 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 Tierra del 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 Fernandez, 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.

Saurophagus sulphureus, 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.

Shingle-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.

Smith, Dr. Andrew, on the support of large quadrupeds, 99.

—— —— ——, on perforated pebbles, 173.

Snake, venemous, 114.

Snow-line, on Cordillera, 275.

Snow, effects of on rocks, 388.

——, red, 394.

Soda, nitrate of, 443.

——, sulphate of, 91.

Southern islands, 272.

Sparus, coral-eating fish, 553.

Spawn on surface of sea, 18.

Spiders, habits of 40.

——, gossamer, 187.

Stalactites or sulphate of lime, 9.

Steam issuing from fissures in ground at the Azores, 596.

Stinging-coral, 552.

Streams of stones at Falkland Islands, 254.

Struthio Rhea, 105.

—— Darwinii, 108.

Subsidence in Pacific Ocean, 557.

—— at Keeling Island, 560.

Sulphate of soda incrusting the ground, 91.

Sydney, 515.

Tabanus, 200.

Tahiti (Otaheite), 480.

——, three zones of fertility, 484.

Tail, fossil, gigantic size of, 181.

Talcahuano, 370.

Tameness of birds, 475.

Tapocolo and Turco, 329.

Tapalguen, Sierra, flat hills of quartz, 135.

Tasmania, 532.

Tattooing, 482, 501.

Temperance of the Tahitians, 490.

Teru-tero, habits of, 133.

Tercero Rio, fossil remains, in banks of 146.

Terraces in valleys of Cordillera, 385.

—— of Coquimbo, 423.

—— of Patagonia, how formed, 202.

Testudo Indicus, habits of, 462.

Theory of lagoon islands, 553.

Thistle beds, 138, 143, 172.

Tierra del Fuego, 227, 263.

—— —— ——, climate and vegetation of, 268.

—— —— ——, geology of, 266.

—— —— ——, deep channels in, 267.

—— —— ——, zoology of, 300.

—— —— ——, entomology of, 302.

Tinamus rufescens, 51.

Tinochorus Eschscholtzii, 110.

Toad, habits of, 115.

—— not found in volcanic islands, 472.

Tortoise, habits of, 462.

Torrents, effects of, in Cordillera, 385.

Toxodon, 180.

——, teeth of, 146.

Transport of seeds, 541.

—— of boulders, 280 to 292.

—— of stones in roots of trees, 549.

—— of fragments of rock on banks of the St. Cruz river, 216.

Travertin with leaves of trees, Van Diemen’s Land, 535.

Tree-ferns, southern limits of, 271.

Trees, absence of, in Pampas, 53.

——, silicified, vertical, 406.

Tres Montes, 343.

Trigonocephalus, or Cophias, 114.

Trochilus gigas, 331.

Tropical scenery, 590.

Tubes, siliceous, formed by lightning, 69.

Tucutuco, habits of, 58.

Turkey buzzard, 68.

Tupungato, volcano of, 397.

Turtle, manner of catching, 547.

Types of organization in different countries, constant, 209.

Uruguay, Rio, 171.

Uspallata range, 406.

Valdivia, 363.

——, forests of, 364, 368.

Valley of St. Cruz, how excavated, 217.

——, dry, at Copiapó, 438.

Valleys, excavation of, in Chile, 314, 438.

—— of Tahiti, 486.

—— in Cordillera, 385.

Valparaiso, 308.

Vampire bat, 25.

Van Diemen’s Land, 532.

Vanellus Cayanensis, 133.

Vanikoro, encircled island, 555.

Vegetation of St. Helena, 580, 582.

——, changes of, at ditto, 579.

—— of New South Wales, 517.

—— on opposite sides of Cordillera, 399.

——, luxuriant, not necessary to support large animals, 99.

Ventana, Sierra, 125.

Villa Vicencio, 405.

Virgularia Patagonica, 117.

Volcanic phenomena, 380.

Volcanoes near Chiloe, 336.

——, occur within the areas of elevation, 567.

Vultur aura, 68.

Waders, first colonists amongst birds of distant islands, 543.

Waimate, New Zealand, 507.

Walleechu tree, 79.

Wasps preying on spiders, 40.

Water-hog, 57.

Water, sold at Iquique, 442.

Waves, caused by fall of ice, 281.

—— from earthquakes, 377.

Weatherboard, N. S. Wales, 522.

Weeds, English, in New Zealand, 511.

Weight of large quadrupeds, 101.

Wellington, Mount, 536.

Wells at Iquique, 445.

Wells, ebbing and flowing, 545.

Wigwams of Fuegians, 234.

Winds, cold on Cordillera, 440.

—— on Cordillera, 395.

Zoological provinces of N. and S. America, 153.

Zoophytes, Falkland Islands, 258.

Zorillo, or skunk, 94.

THE END.

WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND