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style=margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em * Pampas, number of embedded remains in, 155
 * , S. limit of, 75
 * , changes in, 120
 * not quite level, 124, 127, 143
 * , geology of, 129, 155
 * , view of, from the Andes, 327
 * Papilio feronia, 33
 * Parana, Kio, 12(, 139, 147
 * , islands in, 134
 * Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 133
 * Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 110
 * Parrots, 138, 244
 * Partridges, 45
 * Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 418
 * Passes in Cordillera, 334
 * Pasture, altered from grazing of cattle, 118
 * Patagones, 64
 * Patagonia, geology of, 170, 329
 * , zoology of, 165, 170, 179
 * Patagonian Indians, 231
 * Peach-trees self-sown, 120
 * Peat, formation of, 286
 * Pebbles perforated, 149, 267
 * transported in roots of trees, 461
 * Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 161
 * Penas, Gulf of, 246
 * Penguin, habits of, 199
 * Pepsis, habits of, 35
 * Pernambuco, reef of, 498
 * Pernety on hill of ruins, 196
 * on tame birds, 398
 * Peru, 362 to 371
 * , dry valleys of, 358, 362
 * Petrels, habits of, 289
 * Peuquenes, pass of, 319
 * Phenolite at F. Noronha, 11
 * Phosphorescence of the sea, 162
 * of a coralline, 202
 * of land insects and sea animals, 30
 * Phryniscus, 97
 * Pine of New Zealand, 427
 * Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 262, 316
 * almost horizontal near St. Fé, 127
 * Planariæ, terrestrial species of, 26
 * Plants of the Galapagos, 374, 392, 395
 * of Keeling island, 454
 * of St. Helena, 487
 * fossil in Australia, 443
 * Plata, R., 39
 * , thunderstorms of, 62
 * Plover, long-legged, 114
 * Polished rocks, Brazil, 12
 * Polyborus chimaugo, 57
 * Novæ Zelandiæ, 58
 * Braziliensis, 55
 * Ponsonby Sound, 221
 * Porpoises, 39
 * Port Desire, 1 64
 * , river of, 107, 1G8
 * St. Julian, 170
 * Famine, 233
 * Portillo pass, 319, 325
 * Porto Praya, 1
 * Potato, wild, 285
 * Potrero Seco, 350
 * Prairies, vegetation of, 118
 * Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 53
 * Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 59
 * Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 289
 * Proctotretus, 97
 * Proteus, blindness of, 52
 * Protococcus nivalis, 322
 * Pteroptochos, two species of, 270
 * , species of, 278, 288
 * Pueute del Inca, 334, 356
 * Puffinus cinercus, 290
 * Puffinuria Berardii, 291
 * Puma, habits of, 136, 183, 269
 * , flesh of, 117
 * Puna, or short respiration, 322
 * Punta Alta, Bahia Blauca, 81
 * Gorda, 129, 356
 * Pyrophorus luminosiis, 31


 * Quadrupeds, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173
 * , large, do not require luxuriant vegetation, 85
 * , weight of, 87
 * Quartz of the Ventana, 109
 * of Tapalguen, 116
 * of Falkland Island, 196
 * Quedius, 10
 * Quillota, valley of, 254
 * Quintero, 254
 * Quiriquina Island, 302