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agrion
INDEX.
antelope.
621

  • Agrion Ramburii, sexes of, 290.
  • Agrionidæ, difference in the sexes of, 290.
  • Agrotis exclamationis, 316.
  • Ague, tertian, dog suffering from, 8.
  • Aïthurus polytmus, young of, 487.
  • Ainos, hairiness of the, 560.
  • Albino birds, 419.
  • Alca torda, young of, 486.
  • Alces palmata, 515.
  • Alder and Hancock, MM., on the nudi-branch mollusca, 264.
  • Allen, J. A., vigour of birds earliest hatched, 212, 213; effect of difference of temperature, light, &c., on birds, 225; colours of birds, 422; on the relative size of the sexes of Callorhinus ursinus, 515; on the mane of Otaria jubata, 521; on the pairing of seals, 523; on sexual differences in the colour of bats, 534.
  • —— S., on the habits of Hoplopterus, 366; on the plumes of herons, 391; on the vernal moult of Herodias bubulcus, 393.
  • Alligator, courtship of the male, 221, 351; roaring of the male, 567.
  • Amadavat, pugnacity of male, 366.
  • Amadina Lathami, display of plumage by the male, 402.
  • —— castanotis, display of plumage by the male, 402.
  • Amazons, butterflies of the, 250; fishes of the, 343.
  • America, variation in the skulls of aborigines of, 26; wide range of aborigines of, 169; lice of the natives of, 170; general beardlessness of the natives of, 560.
  • ——, North, butterflies of, 250; Indians of, women a cause of strife among the, 561; Indians of, their notions of female beauty, 577, 580.
  • ——, South, character of the natives of, 168; population of parts of, 173; piles of stones in, 179; extinction of the fossil horse of, 191; desert-birds of, 490; slight sexual difference of the aborigines of, 561; prevalence of infanticide in, 592.
  • American languages, often highly artificial, 91.
  • Americans, wide geographical range of, 29; native, variability of, 174; and negroes, difference of, 197; aversion of, to hair on the face, 580.
  • Ammophila, on the jaws of, 275.
  • Ammotragus tragelaphus, hairy forelegs of, 531, 533.
  • Amphibia, affinity of, to the ganoid fishes, 159; vocal organs of the, 566.
  • Amphibians, 165, 348; breeding whilst immature, 485.
  • Amphioxus, 159.
  • Amphipoda, males sexually mature while young, 485.
  • Amunoph III., negro character of features of, 168.
  • Anal appendages of insects, 275.
  • Analogous variation in the plumage of birds, 385.
  • Anas, 462.
  • —— acuta, male plumage of, 393.
  • —— boschas, male plumage of, 393.
  • —— histrionica, 484.
  • —— punctata, 374.
  • Anastomus oscitans, sexes and young of, 486; white nuptial plumage of, 492.
  • Anatidæ, voices of, 374.
  • Anax junius, differences in the sexes of, 290.
  • Andaman islanders, susceptible to change of climate, 188.
  • Anderson, Dr., on the tail of Macacus brunneus, 59; the Bufo sikimmensis, 349; sounds of Echis carinata, 353.
  • Andrœna fulva, 292.
  • Anglo-Saxons, estimation of the beard among the, 581.
  • Animals, domesticated, more fertile than wild, 45; cruelty of savages to, 118; characters common to man and, 146; domestic, change of breeds of, 596.
  • Annelida, 264; colours of, 265.
  • Anobium tessellatum, sounds produced by, 306.
  • Anolis cristatellus, male, crest of, 354; pugnacity of the male, 354; throatpouch of, 354.
  • Anser canadensis, 416.
  • —— cygnoides, 415; knob at the base of the beak of, 426.
  • —— hyperboreus, whiteness of, 492.
  • Antelope, prong-horned, horns of, 234.