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- Falconer, Jesuit, on natural enclosures. 116
- Falkland Islands, 188
- , birds tame at, 398
- , absence of trees at, 48
- , carrion-hawks of, 57
- , wild cattle and horses of, 190
- , climate of, 242
- , peat of, 287
- Fat, quantity eaten, 117
- Fear, an acquired instinct, 399
- Februa, 33
- Fennel, run wild, 119
- Ferguson, Dr., on miasma, 366
- Fern-trees, 244, 448
- Fernando Noronha, 11, 374
- Fields of dead coral, 460
- Fire, art of making, 194, 409
- Fish, eating coral, 464
- of Galapagos, 390
- emitting harsh sound, 136
- Flamingoes, 66
- Fleas, 346
- Floods after droughts, 134
- clear after snow, 319
- Flora of the Galapagos, 374, 392, 395
- of Keeling island, 454
- of St. Helena, 487
- Flustraceæ, 201
- Forests, absence of, in La Plata, 47
- , of Tierra del Fuego, 210,
- , 286
- of Chiloe, 243, 280, 286, 293
- of Valdivia, 298, 301
- of New Zealand, 427
- of Australia, 433
- Fossil Mammalia, 81, 127, 130, 155, 173
- earthenware, 369
- Fox of the Falkland Islands, 193
- of Chiloe, 280
- Friendly Archipelago, 481
- Frogs, noises of, 29
- , bladders of, 383
- and toads, not found on oceanic islands, 381
- Frozen soil, 88, 248
- Fruit-trees, southern limit of, 243
- Fucus giganteus, 239
- Fuegians, 204 to 234
- Fulgurites, 59
- Fungus, edible, 236
- Furnarius, 95
- Galapagos Archipelago, 372; natural history of, 377
- belongs to American Zoology, 377, 393
- Gale of wind, 217,281
- Gallegos River, fossil bones at, 171
- Galliuazo, 55
- Gauchos, 42. 155
- , character of, 156
- live on meat, 117
- Gay, M., on floating islands, 265
- , on shells in brackish water, 21
- Geese at the Falkland Islands, 199
- Geographical distribution of American animals, 131, 326
- of frogs, 381
- of fauna
- of Galapagos, 393
- Geology of Cordillera, 319, 332
- of Patagonia, 170, 181
- of St. J ago, 6
- of St. Paul, 8
- of B. Blanca, 81
- of Pampas, 129
- of Brazil, 12
- Georgia, climate of, 248
- Geospiza, 379, 395
- Gill, Mr., on an upheaved river-bed, 358
- Gillies, Dr., on the Cordillera, 323
- Glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, 224, 245
- in Cordillera, 324
- in lat. 46° 40', 246
- Glow-worms, 30
- Goats, destructive to vegetation at St. Helena, 489
- , bones of, 168
- Goitre, 314
- Gold-washing, 266
- Good Success Bay, 204
- Gossamer spider, 159
- Gould, Mr., on the Calodera, 125
- , on birds of Galapagos, 379
- Granite mountains, Tres Montes, 283
- of Cordillera, 320
- Graspus, 10
