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INDEX.


A.

  • Abbot, C., on the battles of seals, 500.
  • Abductor of the fifth metatarsal, presence of, in man, 42.
  • Abercrombie, Dr., on disease of the brain affecting speech, 88.
  • Abipones, marriage customs of the, 598.
  • Abou-Simbel, caves of, 168.
  • Abortion, prevalence of the practice of, 46.
  • Abstraction, power of, in animals, 83.
  • Acalles, stridulation of, 306.
  • Acanthodactylus capensis, sexual differences of colour in, 357.
  • Accentor modularis, 473.
  • Acclimatisation, difference of, in different races of men, 167.
  • Achetidæ, stridulation of the, 282, 283, 285; rudimentary stridulating organs in female, 288.
  • Acilius sulcatus, elytra of the female, 276.
  • Acomus, development of spurs in the female of, 450.
  • Acridiidæ stridulation of the, 282, 286; rudimentary stridulating organs in female, 288.
  • Acromio-basilar muscle, and quadrupedal gait, 42.
  • Acting, 178.
  • Actiniœ, bright colours of, 260.
  • Adams, Mr., migration of birds, 108; intelligence of nut-hatch, 418; on the Bombycilla carolinensis, 461.
  • Admiral butterfly, 312.
  • Adoption of the young of other animals by female monkeys, 70.
  • Advancement in the organic scale, Von Baer's definition of, 164.
  • Aeby, on the difference between the skulls of man and the quadrumana, 149.
  • Æsthetic faculty, not highly developed in savages, 93.
  • Affection, maternal, 70; manifestation of, by animals, 70; parental and filial, partly the result of natural selection, 105; mutual, of birds, 410; shewn by birds in confinement, for certain persons, 411.
  • Africa, probably the birthplace of man, 155; South, crossed population of, 174; South, retention of colour by the Dutch in, 193; South, proportion of the sexes in the butterflies of, 250; tattooing practised in, 574; Northern, coiffure of natives of, 575.
  • Agassiz, L., on conscience in dogs, 103; on the coincidence of the races of man with zoological provinces, 169; on the number of species of man, 174; on the courtship of the land-snails, 262; on the brightness of the colours of male fishes during the breeding season, 340; on the frontal protuberance of the males of Geophagus and Cichla, 340, 345; male fishes hatching ova in their mouths, 345; sexual differences in colour of chromids, 345; on the slight sexual differences of the South Americans, 561; on the tattooing of the Amazonian Indians, 576.
  • Age, in relation to the transmission of characters in birds, 463; variation in accordance with, in birds, 484.
  • Agelœus phœniceus, 225, 416.
  • Ageronia feronia, noise produced by, 307.
  • Agrion, dimorphism in, 290.