FEMUR. 



INDEX. 



FOWLS, 



429 



Femur and tibia, proportions of, in 

 the Aymara Indians, i. 119. 



Ferguson, Mr., on the courtship of 

 fowls, ii. 118. 



Fertilization, phenomena of, in 

 plants, i. 273 ; in the lower animals, 

 i. 274. 



Fevers, immunity of Negroes and 

 Mulattoes from, i. 243. 



Fiber zihethicus, protective colouring 

 of, ii. 298. 



FiDELiTV of savages to one another, 

 i. 95 ; importance of, i. 162. 



Field-slaves, difference of, from 

 house-slaves, i. 246. 



FiJiANS, burying their old and sick 

 parents alive, i. 77 ; estimation of 

 the beard among the, ii. 349 ; ad- 

 miration of, for a broad occiput, ii. 

 352. 



Fiji Islands, beards of the natives, ii. 

 322, 349 ; marriage-customs of the, 

 ii. 373. 



Filial affection, partly the result of 

 natural selection, i. 81. 



Filum terminale, i. 30. 



Finch, racket-shaped feathers in the 

 tail of a, ii. 73. 



Finches, spring change of colour in, 

 ii. 85 ; British, females of the, ii. 

 193. 



Fingers, partially coherent, in species 

 o{ Ili/lobates, i. 140. 



FiNLAYSON, on the Cochin Chinese, ii. 

 345. 



Fire, use of, i. 137, 183, 234. 



Fischer, on the pugnacity of the male 

 of Lcthrus ccphalotes, i. 376. 



Fish, proportion of the sexes in, i. 

 307; eagerness of male, i. 272. 



Fishes, kidneys of, represented by 

 Corpora Wolffiana in the human 

 embryo, i. 16 ; male, hatching ova 

 in their mouths, i. 210 ; receptacles 

 for ova possessed by, i. 254 ; relative 

 size of the sexes in, ii. 7 ; freshwater, 

 of the tropics, ii. 17 ; protective re- 

 • semblances in, ii. 18 ; nest-building, 

 ii. 19 ; spawning of, ii. 19 ; sounds 

 produced by, ii. 23, 331 ; continued 

 growth of, ii. 216. 



Flexor pollicis lonjiis, similar varia- 

 tion of, in man, i. 129. 

 Flint tools, i. 183. 



Flints, difficulty of chipping into 

 form, i. 138. 



Florida, Quiscalus major in, i. 307. 



Flounder, coloration of the, ii. 18. 



Flower, W. H., on the abductor of 

 the fifth metatarsal in apes, i. 

 128 ; on the position of the Seals, 

 i. 190 ; on the throat-pouch of the 

 male Bustard, ii. 58. 



Fly-catchers, colours and nidification 

 of, ii. 170. 



FcETUS,^ human, woolly covering of 

 the, i. 25 ; arrangement of the hair 

 on, i. 193. 



Food, influence of, upon stature, i. 

 115. 



Foot, prehensile, in the early progeni- 

 tors of man, i. 206 ; prehensile 

 power of the, retained in some 

 savages, i. 142. 



Foramen, supra-condyloid, excep- 

 tional occurrence of in the humerus 

 of man, i. 28, 130; in the early 

 progenitors of man, i. 206. 



Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians, i. 

 119 ; on local variation of colour in 

 the Quechuas, i. 246 ; on the hair- 

 lessness of the Aymaras and Que- 

 chuas, ii. 322 ; on the long hair of 

 the Avmaras and Quechuas, ii. 320, 

 348. ' 



FoREL, F. on white young swans, ii. 

 211. 



Formica rufa, size of the cerebral 

 ganglia in, i. 145. 



Fossils, absence of, connecting man 

 with the apes, i. 201. 



Fowl, occurrence of spurs in the 

 female, i. 280 ; game, early pug- 

 nacity of, i. 295 ; Polish, early 

 development of cranial peculiarities 

 of, i. 295 ; variations in plumage 

 of, ii. 74 ; examples of correlated 

 development in the, ii. 130; do- 

 mestic, breeds and subbreeds of, ii. 

 178. 



Fowls, spangled Hamburgh, i, 281, 

 294 ; sexual peculiarities in, trans- 

 mitted only to the same sex, i. 283 ; 

 loss of secondary sexual characters 

 by male, i. 284 ; inheritance of 

 changes of plumage by, i. 281 ; 

 Polish, origin of the crest in, i. 

 284 ; period of inheritance of cha- 



