ALCES. 



INDEX. 



ANTIIIDIUM. 



407 



Alces pabnata, ii. 259. 



Alder and Hancock, MM., on the 

 nudi-branch mollusca, i, 326. 



Algen, Mr., on the stridulation of 

 Scolytus, i. 379. 



Allen, J. A., on the relative size of 

 the sexes of Callorhinus ursinus, ii. 

 260 ; on the mane of Otaria jubata, 

 ii. 267 ; on the pairing of seals, ii. 

 279 ; on sexual differences in the 

 colour of bats, ii. 286. 



Allen, S., on the habits of Iloplo- 

 pterus, ii. 48 ; on the plumes of 

 herons, ii. 82 ; on the vernal moult 

 of HerocUas bubulcus, ii. 84. 



Alligator, courtship of the male, i. 

 272, ii. 29; roaring of the male, 

 i. 331. 



Amadavat, pugnacity of male, ii. 49. 



Amadina Lathami, display of plum- 

 age by the male, ii. 95. 



Amadina castanotis, display of plum- 

 age by the male, ii. 95. 



Amazons, butterflies of the, i. 309 ; 

 fishes of the, ii. 17. 



America, variation in the skulls of 

 aborigines of, i. 108 ; wide range 

 of aborigines of, i. 218; lice of the 

 natives of, i. 220 ; general beard- 

 lessness of the natives of, ii. 322. 



America, North, butterflies of, i. 

 309 ; Indians of, women a cause of 

 strife among the, ii. 324; Indians 

 of, their notions of female beauty, 

 ii. 344, 347. 



America, South, character of the na- 

 tives of, i. 216 ; population of 

 parts of, i. 225 ; piles of stones in, 

 i. 233 ; extinction of the fossil 

 horse of, i. 239 ; desert-birds of, ii, 

 224 ; slight sexual difference of the 

 aborigines of, ii. 323 ; prevalence 

 of infanticide in, ii. 361. 



American languages, often highly 

 artificial, i. 112. 



Americans, wide geographical range 

 of, i. 112; and negroes, difference 

 of, i. 247 ; aversion of, to hair on 

 the face, ii. 348 ; native, varia- 

 bility of, i. 226. 

 Ammophila, on the jaws of, i. 342. 

 Ainmotragus tragelaphus, hairy fore- 

 legs of,' ii. 282, 285. 

 Amphibia, affinity of, to the ganoid 



fishes, i. 204 ; vocal organs of the, 

 ii. 331. 



Amphibians, i. 213, ii. 24; breeding 

 whilst immature, ii. 215. 



Amphioxus, i. 204. 



Amphipoda, males sexually mature 

 while young, ii. 215. 



Amunoph III., negro character of fea- 

 tures of, i. 217. 



Anal appendages of insects, i. 342. 



Analogous variation in the plumage 

 of birds, ii. 74. 



Anas, ii. 180. 



Anas acuta, male plumage of, ii. 84. 



Anas boschas, male plumage of, ii. 84. 



A7ias histrionica, ii. 214. 



Anastomiis oscitans, sexes and young 

 of, ii. 217 ; white nuptial plumage 

 of, ii. 228. 



Anatid^, voices of, ii. 60. 



Anax Junius, difference in the sexes 

 of, i. 362. 



Anglo-Saxons, estimation of the 

 beard among the, ii. 349. 



Animals, cruelty of savages to, i. 94 ; 

 domesticated, more fertile than 

 wild, i. 132 ; characters common to 

 man and, i. 185 ; domestic, change 

 of breeds of, ii. 369. 



Annelida, i. 327. 



Annulosa, i. 327. 



Anolis cnstatellus, male, crest of, ii. 

 32 ; pugnacity of the male, ii. 32 ; 

 throat-pouch of, ii. 33. 



Anobium tessellatum, sounds produced 

 by, i. 384. 



Anser canadensis, ii. 116. 



Anser cijgnoides, ii. 114 ; knob at the 

 base of the beak of, ii. 129. 



Anser hyperboreus, whiteness of, ii. 228. 



Antelope, prong-horned, horns of. 

 i. 289. 



Antelopes, generally polygamous, i. 

 26r; horns of, i. 289, ii. 245 ; ca- 

 nine teeth of some male, ii. 241 ; 

 use of horns of, ii. 251 ; do rsal 

 ci'ests in, ii. 282; dewlapa^oTpi., 

 284 ; winter change ofy*YS.^^<^*^'^ 

 of, ii. 299; peculiar /^liwNdn^^ S^". fff 

 ii. 299. /v^ Q 



Antennae, furnished ^^i^c^n^mn^'''^-^ 

 the male of I'enthe,lfTQ4-^ -- o \ 1 



Anthidium manicatum\].aYde\ji\a\e oi.* 

 i. 347. \^V ^.i*-^ 





