MACRORIIINUS. 



INDEX. 



MANTELL. 



445 



hairs of the throat of the stag, ii. 

 268 ; on the bellowing of stags, ii. 

 274. 



Macrorhinus prohoscidetis, structure 

 of the nose of, ii. 278. 



Magpie, power of speech of, i. 59 ; 

 stealing bright objects, ii. 112; 

 nuptial assemblies of, ii. 102 ; new 

 mates found by, ii. 103; young of 

 the, ii. 209 ; coloration of the, ii. 

 230. 



Magpies, vocal organs of the, ii. 55. 



Maillard, M., on the proportion of 

 the sexes in a species of Fapilio from 

 Bourbon, i. 310. 



Maine, Mr., on the absorption of one 

 tribe by another, i. 159 ; on the 

 want of a desire for improvement, 

 i. 166. 



Makalolo, perforation of the upper 

 lip by the, ii. 341. 



Malar bone, abnormal division of, 

 in man, i. 124. 



Malay, Archipelago, marriage-cus- 

 toms of the savages of the, ii. 373. 



Malays, line of separation between 

 the Papuans and the, i. 218 ; gene- 

 ral beardlessness of the, ii. 321 ; 

 staining of the teeth among, ii. 

 339 ; aversion of some, to hairs on 

 the face, ii. 349. 



Malays and Papuans, conti-asted cha- 

 racters of, i. 216. 



Male animals, struggles of, for the 

 possession of the females, i. 259, 

 260 ; eagerness of, in courtship, i. 

 272, 273 ; generally more modified 

 than female, 1. 272, 275 ; differ in 

 the same way from females and 



voung, 1 



OQK. 



85. 



Male characters, developed in fe- 

 males, i. 280 ; transfer of, to female 

 birds, ii. 193. 



Male, sedentary, of a hymenopterous 

 parasite, i. 272. 



Malefactors, i. 172. 



Males, presence of rudimentary fe- 

 male organs in, i. 208. 



Males and females, comparative mor- 

 tality of, while young, i. 264, 276 ; 

 comparative numbers of, i. 261, 

 263. 



Maliierbe, on the woolpeckers, ii. 

 174. 



Malthus, T., on the rate of increase 

 of population, i. 131, 132, 134. 



Malurid.e, nidification of the, ii. 

 169. 



Malurus, young of, ii. 216. 



Mammae, i. 254 ; rudimentary, in male 

 mammals, i. 17, 30, 208, 209, 210 ; 

 supernumerary, in women, i. 125 ; 

 of male human subject, i. 130. 



Mammalia, Prof. Owen's classification 

 of, i. 187 ; genealogy of the, i. 

 203. 



Mammals, secondary sexual charac- 

 ters of, ii. 239 ; weapons of, ii. 

 241 ; recent and tertiary, compa- 

 rison of cranial capacity of, i. 146 ; 

 relative size of the sexes of, ii. 

 260 ; pursuit of female, by the 

 males, i. 272 ; parallelism of, with 

 birds in secondary sexual charac- 

 ters, ii. 297 ; voices of, used espe- 

 cially during the breeding season, 

 ii. 331. 



Max, variability of, i. 108 ; errone- 

 ously reo-arded as more domesti- 

 cated than other animals, 1. Ill ; 

 definitive origin of, i. 235 ; migra- 

 tions of, i. 135 ; wide distribvition 

 of, i. 137 ; causes of the nakedness 

 of, i., 149 ; supposed physical infe- 

 riority of, i. 156 ; numerical pro- 

 portions of the sexes in, i. 264 ; a 

 member of the Catarrhine group, 

 i. 198 ; early progenitors of, i. 206 ; 

 secondary sexual charactei's of, ii. 

 316 ; primeval condition of, ii. 367. 



Maxdans, correlation of colour and 

 texture of hair in the, i. 248. 



Mandible, left, enlarged in the male 

 of Taphroderes distortus, 1. 344. 



Mandibles, use of the, in Am7no- 

 p)hila, i. 342 ; large, of Cori/dalis 

 cornutus, i. 342 ; large, of male 

 Lucaims elaphus, i. 342. 



Mandrill, number of caudal verte- 

 bra3 in the, i. 150; colours of the 

 male, ii. 292, 296, 310. 



Mantegazza, Prof., on the orna- 

 ments of savages, ii. 338 et sc/q. ; 

 en the beardlessness of the New^ Zea- 

 landers, ii. 349 ; on the exaggera- 

 tion of natural characters by man, 

 ii. 351. 



Mantell, W., on the engrossment of 



