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  • Suspicion, prevalence of, among animals, 69.
  • Swallow-tail butterfly, 312.
  • Swallows deserting their young, 108, 113.
  • Swan, black, wild, trachea of the, 374; white young of, 482; red beak of the, 491; black-necked, 493.
  • Swans, 491, 493; young, 481.
  • Swaysland, Mr., on the arrival of migratory birds, 212.
  • Swifts, migration of, 108.
  • Swinhoe, R., on the common rat in Formosa and China, 80; behaviour of lizards when caught, 355; on the sounds produced by the male hoopoe, 376; on Dicrurus macrocercus and the spoonbill, 461; on the young of Ardeola, 468; on the habits of Turnix, 476; on the habits of Rhynchœa bengalensis, 476; on Orioles breeding in immature plumage, 484.
  • Sylvia atricapilla, young of, 487.
  • —— cinerea, aerial love-dance of the male, 380
  • Sympathy, 134; among animals, 102; its supposed basis, 106.
  • Sympathies, gradual widening of, 123.
  • Syngnathous fishes, abdominal pouch in male, 163.
  • Sypheotides auritus, acuminated primaries of the male, 378; ear-tufts of, 384

T.

  • Tabanidæ, habits of, 208.
  • Tadorna variegata, sexes and young of, 479.
  • —— vulpanser, 414.
  • Tahitians, 145; compression of the nose by the, 583.
  • Tail, rudimentary, occurrence of, in man, 22; convoluted body in the extremity of the, 23; absence of, in man and the higher apes, 58; variability of, in species of Macacus and in baboons, 58; presence of, in the early progenitors of man, 160; length of, in pheasants, 445, 451, 452; difference of length of the, in the two sexes of birds, 451.
  • Tait, Lawson, on the effects of natural selection on civilised nations, 133.
  • Tanager, scarlet, variation in the male, 424.
  • Tanagra œstiva, age of mature plumage in, 483.
  • —— rubra 424; young of, 487.
  • Tanais, absence of mouth in the males of some species of, 208; relations of the sexes in, 255; dimorphic males of a species of, 265.
  • Tankerville, Earl, on the battles of wild bulls, 501.
  • Tanysiptera, races of, determined from adult males, 468.
  • —— sylvia, long tail-feathers of, 451.
  • Taphroderes distortus, enlarged left mandible of the male, 277.
  • Tapirs, longitudinal stripes of young, 464, 546.
  • Tarsi, dilatation of front, in male beetles, 275.
  • Tarsius, 156.
  • Tasmania, half-castes killed by the natives of, 170.
  • Tasmanians, extinction of, 184.
  • Taste, in the Quadrumana, 541.
  • Tattooing, 178; universality of, 574.
  • Taylor, G., on Quiscalus major, 248.
  • Tea, fondness of monkeys for, 7.
  • Tear-sacks, of Ruminants, 529.
  • Teebay, Mr., on changes of plumage in spangled Hamburgh fowls, 229.
  • Teeth, rudimentary incisor, in Ruminants, 11; posterior molar, in man, 20; wisdom, 20; diversity of, 26; canine, in the early progenitors of man, 160; canine, of male mammals, 502; in man, reduced by correlation, 562; staining of the, 574; front, knocked out or filed by some savages, 575.
  • Tegetmeier, Mr., on the transmission of colours in pigeons by one sex alone, 231; numerical proportion of male and female births in dogs, 246; on the abundance of male pigeons, 247; on the wattles of game-cocks, 403; on the courtship of fowls, 417; on the loves of pigeons, 418; on dyed pigeons, 418; blue dragon pigeons, 446.
  • Tembeta, S. American ornament, 575.
  • Temper, in dogs and horses, inherited, 69.