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NECROPHOKUS. 



INDEX. 



NUNEMAYA. 



Necrophoi-uSj stridulation of, i. 378, 



382. 

 Nectarinia, young of, ii. 190. 

 Nectariniaiy nidification of, ii. 169; 



moulting of the, ii. 83. 

 Negro, resemblance of a, to Europe- 

 ans, in mental characters, i. 232. 

 Negro-women, their kindness to 



Mungo Park, i. 95. 

 Negroes, character of, i. 216 ; lice of, 

 i. 220 ; blackness of, i. 224, ii. 381; 

 variability of, i. 225, 226; immunity 

 of, from yellow fever, i. 243 ; dif- 

 ference of, from Americans, i. 247 ; 

 disfigurements of the, ii. 296 ; colour 

 of new-born children of, ii. 318 ; 

 comparative beardlessness of, ii. 

 321 ; I'eadily become musicians, ii. 

 334; appreciation of beauty of their 

 women by, ii. 344, 346 ; idea of 

 beauty among, ii. 350 ; compres- 

 sion of the nose by some, ii. 352. 

 Neolithic period, 183. 

 Neomorpha, sexual difference of the 



beak in, ii. 39. 

 Nephila, i. 337. 



Nests, made by fishes, ii. 19 ; decora- 

 tion of, by Humming-birds, ii. 112. 

 Neumeister, on a change of colour in 

 pigeons after several moultings, i. 

 294. 

 Neuration, difference of, in the two 

 sexes of some butterflies and hyra- 

 enoptera, i. 345. 

 Neuroptera, i. 314, 361. 

 Xeurothemis, dimorphism in, i. 363. 

 New Zealand, expectation by the na- 

 tives of, of their extinction, i. 240^; 

 practice of tattooing in, ii, 342 ; 

 aversion of natives of, to hairs on 

 the face, ii. 349 ; pretty girls en- 

 grossed by the chiefs in, ii. 369. 

 Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of 

 the male bustard, ii, 58 ; on the 

 difference between the females of 

 two species of Oxynotus, ii. 193 ; 

 on the habits of the phalarope, 

 dotterel, and godwit, ii. 204. 

 Newts, ii. 24. 



Nicholson, Dr,, on the non-immunity 

 of dark Europeans from yellow 

 fever, i, 245. 

 Nictitating membrane, i. 23, 207. 

 Nidification, of fishes, ii. 19 ; relation 



of, to colour, ii, 167, 172 ; of 

 British birds, ii. 169. 

 Night-heron, cries of the, ii. 51. 

 Nightingale, arrival of the male 

 before the female, i, 259 ; object of 

 the song of the, ii. 52. 

 Nightingales, new mates found by, 



ii, 105. 

 Nightjar, selection of a mate by the 

 female, ii. 116; Australian, sexes 

 of, ii. 206 ; coloration of the, ii. 

 226. 

 Nightjars, noise made by some male, 

 with their wings, ii. 62 ; elongated 

 feathers in, ii. 73, 97. 

 Nilghau, sexual diflferences of colour 



in the, ii. 287. 

 NiLSSON, Prof, on the resemblance of 

 stone arrow-heads from various 

 places, i. 233 ; on the development 

 of the horns in the reindeer, i. 288. 

 Nipples, absence of, in Monotremata, 



i. 209, 

 NiTZSCH, C. L,, on the down of birds, 



ii, 80. 

 NoCTU^, brightly-coloured beneath, 



i. 397. 

 NocTUiD.E, coloration of, i. 394. 

 NORDMANN, A., on Tetrao urogalloides, 



ii, 100. 

 Nomadic habits, unfavourable to 



human progress, i. 167. 

 Norway, numerical proportion of 



male and female births in, i. 301. 

 Nose, i^esemblance of, in man and the 

 apes, i. 192 ; piercing and orna- 

 mentation of the, ii. 341 ; flatten- 

 ing of the, ii. 352 ; very flat, not 

 admired in negroes, ii, 350. 

 NOTT and Gliddon, on the features of 

 Rameses II., i, 217 ; on the features 

 of Amunoph III., i, 218; on skulls 

 from Brazilian caves, i, 218; on the 

 immunity of negroes and mulattoes 

 from yellow fever, i. 243 ; on the 

 deformation of the skull among 

 American tribes, ii. 352. 

 NuDiBRANCH mollusca, bright colours 



of, i. 326. 

 Numerals, Roman, i. 182. 

 NuNEMAYA, natives of. bearded ii. 

 322, 349. 



