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  • Maynard, C. J., on the sexes of Chrysemys picta, 351.
  • Meckel, on correlated variation of the muscles of the arm and leg, 44.
  • Medicines, effect produced by, the same in man and in monkeys, 7.
  • Medusœ, bright colours of some, 260.
  • Megalithic structures, prevalence of, 179.
  • Megapicus validus, sexual difference of colour in, 458.
  • Megasoma, large size of males of, 279.
  • Meigs, Dr. A., on variation in the skulls of the natives of America, 26.
  • Meinecke, on the numerical proportion of the sexes in butterflies, 250.
  • Melanesians, decrease of, 185.
  • Meldola, Mr., colours and marriage flight of Colias and Pieris, 319.
  • Meliphagidæ, Australian, nidification of, 454.
  • Melita, secondary sexual characters of, 268.
  • Meloë, difference of colour in the sexes of a species of, 294.
  • Memory, manifestations of, in animals, 74.
  • Memnon, young, 168.
  • Mental characters, difference of, in different races of men, 167.
  • —— faculties, diversity of, in the same race of men, 26; inheritance of, 27; variation of, in the same species, 27, 66; similarity of the in different races of man, 178; of birds, 410.
  • —— powers, difference of, in the two sexes in man, 563.
  • Menura Alberti, 406; song of, 371.
  • —— superba, 406; long tails of both sexes of, 451.
  • Merganser, trachea of the male, 374.
  • —— serrator, male plumage of, 393.
  • Mergus cucullatus, speculum of, 236.
  • —— merganser, young of, 467.
  • Metallura, splendid tail-feathers of, 443.
  • Methoca ichneumonides, large male of, 279.
  • Meves, M., on the drumming of the snipe, 377.
  • Mexicans, civilisation of the, not foreign, 145.
  • Meyer, on a convoluted body at the extremity of the tail in a Macacus and a cat, 23.
  • ——, Dr. A., on the copulation of Phryganidæ of distinct species, 275.
  • ——, Prof. L., on development of helix of ear, 15, 16; men's ears more variable than women's, 224; antennæ serving as ears, 280.
  • Migrations of man, effects of, 47.
  • Migratory instinct of birds, 105; vanquishing the maternal, 107, 113.
  • Mill, J. S., on the origin of the moral sense, 98; on the "greatest happiness principle," 120; on the difference of the mental powers in the sexes of man, 564.
  • Millipedes, 274.
  • Milne-Edwards, H., on the use of the enlarged chelæ of the male Gelasimus, 267.
  • Milvago leucurus, sexes and young of, 479.
  • Mimicry, 323.
  • Mimus polyglottus, 411.
  • Mind, difference of, in man and the highest animals, 126; similarity of the, in different races, 178.
  • Minnow, proportion of the sexes in the, 249.
  • Mirror, larks attracted by, 413.
  • Mitchell, Dr., interbreeding in the Hebrides, 189.
  • Mitford, selection of children in Sparta, 29.
  • Mivart, St. George, on the reduction of organs, 12; on the ears of the lemuroidea, 15; on variability of the muscles in lemuroidea, 41, 48; on the caudal vertebræ of monkeys, 58; on the classification of the primates, 153; on the orang and on man, 154; on differences in the lemuroidea, 155; on the crest of the male newt, 348.
  • Möbius, Prof., on reasoning powers in a pike, 75.
  • Mocking-thrush, partial migration of, 411; young of the, 487.
  • Modifications, unserviceable, 62.
  • Moggridge, J. T., on habits of spiders, 69; on habits of ants, 147.