WARBLERS. 



INDEX. 



WESTPHALIA. 



473 



Warblers, Superb, nidification of, 

 ii. 169. 



Wariness, acquired by animals, i. 50. 



Warington, R., on the habits of the 

 sticklebacks, ii. 2, 20 ; on the bril- 

 liant colours of the male stickle- 

 back during the breeding season, 

 ii. 14. 



Wart-hog, tusks and pads of the, ii. 

 265. 



Watchmakers, short-sighted, i. 118. 



Waterhen, ii. 40. 



Waterhouse, C. 0., on blind beetles, 

 i. 367 ; on diflereuce of colour in 

 the sexes of beetles, i. 367. 



Waterhouse, G. R., on the voice of 

 Hylohatcs agilis, ii. 332. 



Water-ouzel, autumn song of the, 

 ii. 54. 



Waterton, C, on the pairing of a 

 Canada goose with a Bernicle gan- 

 der, ii. 114 ; on hares fighting, ii. 

 239 ; on the Bell-bird, ii. 79. 



Wattles, disadvantageous to male 

 birds in fighting, ii. 98. 



Wealth, influence of, i. 169. 



Weale, J. Mausel, on a South African 

 caterpillar, i. 416. 



Weapons, employed by monkeys, i. 

 51 ; use of, i. 137 ; offensive, of 

 males, i, 257 ; of mammals, ii. 241 

 et seq. 



Weaver-bird, ii. 54. 



Weaver-birds, rattling of the wings 

 of, ii. 62 ; assemblies of, ii. 101. 



Webb, Dr., on the wisdom teeth, i. 

 25. 



Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on the origin 

 of language, i. 56. 



Weevils, sexual difference in length 

 of snout in some, i. 255. 



Weir, Harrison, on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in pigs and 

 rabbits, i. 305 ; on the sexes of 

 young pigeons, i. 306 ; on the songs 

 of birds, ii. 52 ; on pigeons, ii. 109 ; 

 on the dislike of blue pigeons to 

 other coloured varieties, ii. 118; 

 on the desertion of their mates by 

 female pigeons, ii. 119. 



Weir, J. Jenner, on the nightingale 

 and blackcap, i. 259 ; on the rela- 

 tive sexual maturity of male birds, 

 i. 261 ; on female pigeons deserting 



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a feeble mate, i. 262 ; on three 

 starlings frequenting the same 

 nest, i. 269 ; on the proportion of 

 the sexes in Machetes j^ugnax and 

 other birds, i. 306, 307; on the 

 coloration of the Triphainge, i. 395 ; 

 on the rejection of certain cater- 

 pillars by birds, i. 417 ; on sexual 

 differences of the beak in the gold- 

 finch, ii. 40 ; on a piping bullfinch, 

 ii. 52 ; on the object of the night- 

 ingale's song, ii. 52 ; on song-birds, 

 ii. 53 ; on the pugnacity of male 

 fine-plumaged birds, ii. 93 ; on the 

 courtship of birds, ii. 94; on the 

 finding of new mates by Peregrine- 

 falcons and Kestrels, ii. 104 ; on the 

 bullfinch and starling, ii. 105 ; on the 

 cause of birds remaining unpaired, 

 ii. 107 ; on starlings and parrots 

 living in triplets, ii. 107 ; on re- 

 cognition of colour by birds, ii. 110 ; 

 on hybrid birds, ii. 113 ; on the 

 selection of a greenfinch by a female 

 canary, ii. 115 ; on a case of rivalry 

 of female bullfinches, ii. 121 ; on 

 the maturity of the Golden-phea- 

 sant, ii. 213. 



Weisbach, Dr., measurement of men 

 of different races, i. 216 ; on the 

 greater variability of men than of 

 women, i. 275; on the relative 

 proportions of the body in the 

 sexes of different races of man, ii. 

 320. 



Welcker, M., on Brachycephaly and 

 Dolichocephaly, i. 148 ; on sexual 

 differences in the skull in man, ii. 

 317. 



Wells, Dr., on the immunity of 

 coloured races from certain poisons, 

 i. 243. 



Westring, on the stridulation of Re- 

 duvius personatus, i. 350 ; on the 

 stridulating organs of the Coleo- 

 ptera, i. 382 ; on sounds produced 

 by Cychrus, i. 382 ; on the stridu- 

 lation of males of Theridion, i. 339 ; 

 on the stridulation of beetles, i. 

 379 ; on the stridulation of Omalo- 

 plia brunnea, i. 381. 



Westphalia, greater proportion of 

 female illegitimate children in, i. 

 301. 



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