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Lacustrine Villages on Lake Bienne, 223 ; on Leman, 224 ; Viking Boat 

 in Norway, 225 ; Prehistoric Beads, 221 ; Perforated Sharks' Teeth, 224 ; 

 Chipped Flints in India, 229 ; Nephrite Axe on the Amoor, 229 ; Man in 

 the Post-tertiary of Hungary, 224 ; Cave Skeleton, 227 ; Skeleton of Lau- 

 gerie-Basse, 227, 228 ; of Baousse-rousse, 229, 294 ; Megalithic Monument 

 at Avebury, 224 ; British Stone Implements, 225 ; Shell Mound, Newbury- 

 port, 236 ; Mound Crania, 331. 



Other Mammals : Higher Groups (Gill), 238 ; Fur-bearing Animals in 

 New Jersey, 240 ; Synthetic Types, 244 ; Wyoming Fossils, 246 ; Fossil Pro- 

 boscidians, 307; the Metalophodon, 308 ; Fossil Lemuroid in North America, 

 326 ; Apes in Thibet, 239 ; Fossil Monkey in Italy, 239 ; Mammals of Thib- 

 et, 318 ; Bassaris in Ohio, 240 ; Killing Buffalo, 241 ; Jumping Mouse, 241 ; 

 Belgian Bats, 242 ; new Mastodon, 242 ; Siberian Mammoth, 243 ; American 

 Mammoth, 303, 333 ; Bathmodon and Pterodactyls, 244 ; Birth of Hippopot- 

 amus, 245, 333 ; of Hairy Rhinoceros, 246 ; Fossil Sirenian, 246 ; new Whale, 

 247 ; California Gray Whale, 331 ; Whale, 437 ; Fur Seal, 435 ; the Fabled 

 Unicorn, 299; Fossil Deer, 301; West Coast Cetaceans (Scammon), 312; 

 Origin of the Domestic Dog, 317. 



BIRDS. 



General : Occurrence of American, in Europe, 247 ; Birds of New Zealand, 

 253, 309 ; of Florida, 320 ; of Kansas, 321 ; of the British Islands, 326 ; Fos- 

 sil Birds of France, 250 ; of the Mascarene Islands, 251 ; from Queensland, 

 252 ; Raptorial Fossils in New Zealand. 252 ; American Fossil, 253, 254 ; 

 Coues on American, 310 ; on the Birds of the United States, 336 ; new Or- 

 nithological Periodical, 311 ; Carpal and Tarsal Bones, 336. 



Special : A Swimming Hen, 249 ; King Penguin, 249 ; New Zealand 

 Duck, 249 ; Ejection of Young Birds from Nests by Cuckoos, 249 ; the Moa, 

 326 ; Eggs of Moa, 253 ; Bill of the Huia Bird, 324. 



REPTILES. AMPHIBIANS. 



Number in the British Museum, 254 ; new North American, 254 ; Cope on 

 Pythonomorpha, 254 ; Antagonism between Poisonous and Harmless Ser- 

 pents, 255 ; Bloody Secretion from the Eye of the Horned Toad, 256 ; Me- 

 tamorphoses of Frogs, 257 ; Viviparous Frogs, 258 ; new Fossil, 256 ; new 

 Pterodactyls, 256 ; Hadrosaurus, 257 ; Mosasauroid Reptiles, 258 ; North 

 American Serpents, 334. 



FISHES. 



General : Fossil Fish of the Kansas Cretaceous, 258 ; Parasites of Fish, 272 ; 

 Use of the Pectoral Fins of, 259 ; Respiration of, 261 ; Blue Color in, 302 ; 

 Change of Color in, 319. 



Special : Nest-building Fish (Chironectes), 259, 260 ; Genesis of Hippo- 

 campus, 261 ; Chinese Cyprinidce, 262 ; Aged Carp, 262 ; Gigantic Pike, 301 ; 

 Generation of Eels, 299, 434 ; Teeth in Young Sturgeons, 264 ; Sterlet, 442 ; 

 Salmon (see Fisheries, 403 et seq.) ; Trout, 409, 415, 420 ; Smelt, 405, 423 ; 

 Whitefish, 421, 435 ; Shad (see Fisheries) ; Herring, 422, 425, 426 ; Men- 

 haden, 425 ; Black Bass, 409, 414 ; Cyprinus orfus, 431 ; Cod, 264, 424, 436 ; 

 Stones in the Stomachs of Cod, 264 ; Mackerel, 437 ; Tunny, 442 ; Bluefish, 

 265, 414 ; Worms in Trout, 275 ; Venomous Fish in the Mauritius, 463. 



