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INDEX. 



Fakirs, Indian, tortures undergone by, i. 

 92. 



Falco leucoeephalus, ii. 205. 



Fak'o peregrin/us, ii. 100. 179. 



Faleo tinnimculue, ii 100. 



Falcon, peregrine, new mate found by, ii. 

 100. 



Falconer. H., on the mode of fighting of 

 the Indian eiephant, ii. 245 ; on canines 

 in a female deer, ii. 246; on Ilyomoschus 

 aquations, ii. 2S9. 



Falkland islands, horses of, i. 227. 



Fallow-deer, different colored herds of, 

 ii. 281. 



Famines, frequency of, among savages, i. 

 229. 



Farr, Dr., on the structure of the uterus, 

 i. 118; on the effects of profligacy, i. 166; 

 on the influence of marriage on mortali- 

 ty, i 169. 



Farrar, F. W., on the origin of language, 

 i. 54; on the crossing or blending of lan- 

 guages, i. 58 ; on the absence of the idea 

 of God in certain races of men, i. 63 ; sn 

 early marriages ^f the poor, i. 167; on 

 the middle ages, i. 172. 



Fashions, long prevalence of, among sav- 

 ages, ii. 327, 336. 



Faye, Prof., on the numerical proportion 

 of male and female births in Norway and 

 Russia, i. 291 ; on the greater mortality 

 of male children at and before birth, i. 

 292. 



Feathers, modified, producing sounds, ii. 

 60; et seqq., 156; elongated, in male 

 birds, ii. 69, 93; racket-shaped, ii. 70; 

 barbless and with filamentous barbs in 

 certain birds, ii. 70 ; shedding of margins 

 of, ii. 82. 



Feeding, high, probable influence of, in 

 the pairing of birds of different species, 

 ii. 111. 



Feet, modification of, in man, i. 136 ; thick- 

 ening of the skin on the soles of the, i. 

 113. 



Felis Canadensis, throat-ruff of, ii. 273. 



Felis partialis and F. mitis, sexual differ- 

 ences in the coloring of, ii. 273. 



Female, behavior of the, during courtship, 

 i. 264. 



Female birds, differences of, ii. 1S5. 



Females, presence of rudimentary male 

 organs in, i. 199; preference of for cer- 

 tain males, i. 254 ; pursuit of, by males, 

 i. 263; occurrence of secondary sexual 

 characters in, i. 267; development of 

 male characters by, i. 271. 



Females and males, comparative mortali- 

 ty of, while young, i. 255. 267 ; compara- 

 tive numbers of, i. 252, 255. 



Femur and tibia, proportions of, in the 

 Aymara Indians, i. 115. 



Ferguson, Mr., on the courtship of fowls, ii. 

 113. 



Fertilization, phenomena of, in plants, i. 

 265; in the lower animals, i. 266. 



Fevers, immunity of Negroes ind Mulat- 

 toes from, i. 234. 



Fiber zibethicus, protective coloring of, ii 

 284. 



Fidelity of savages to one another, i. 91 

 importance of, i. 156. 



Field-slaves, difference of, from house- 

 slaves, i. 237. 



Fijians, burying their old and sick parents 

 alive, i. 74; estimation of the beard 

 among the, ii. 333 ; admiration of, for a 

 broad occiput, ii. 335. 



Fiji Islands, beards of the natives, ii. 306, 

 333; marriage-customs of the, ii. 356. 



Filial affection, partly the result of natu 

 ral selection, i. 77. 



Filum tei-minale, i. 29. 



Finch, racket-shaped feathers in the tail 

 of a, ii. 70. 



Finches, spring change of color in, ii. 82 ; 

 British females of the, ii. 1S5. 



Fingers, partially coherent, in species of 

 flylobaies, i. 134. 



Finlayson. on the Cochin-Chinese, ii. 329, 



Fire, use of, i. 132, 176, 225. 



Fischer, on the pugnacity of the male of 

 Lethrus eephalotes, i. 365. 



Fisn, proportion of the sexes in, i. 298; 

 eagerness of male, i. 263. 



Fishes, kidneys of, represented by Cor- 

 pora Wolftiana in the human embryo, i. 

 16 ; male, hatching ova in their mouths, 

 i. 202 ; receptacles for ova possessed by, 

 i. 246 ; relative size of the sexes in, ii. 7 : 

 fresh-water, of the tropics, ii. 17 ; protec- 

 tive resemblances in, ii. 18; nest- build- 

 ing, ii. 19; spawning of. ii. 18; sounds 

 produced by, ii. 22, 315; continued 

 growth of, ii. 207. 



Flexor pollieis longus, similar variation 

 of, in man, i. 124. 



Flint tools, i. 176. 



Flints, difficulty of chipping into form, i. 

 133. 



Florida, Quiscalus major in, i. 298. 



Flounder, coloration of the, ii, 18. 



Flower, W. H., on the abductor of tho 

 fifth metatarsal in apes, i. 123 ; on the 

 position of the Seals, i. 1S3; on the 

 throat-pouch of the male Bustard, ii. 

 55. 



Fly-catchers, colors and nidification of, 

 ii. 162. 



Fcetus, human, woolly covering of the, i. 

 25 ; arrangement of the hair on, i. 1S6. 



Food, influence of, upon stature, i. 110. 



Foot, prehensile, in the early progenitors 

 of man, i. 198; prehensile power of the, 

 retained in some savages, i. 136. 



Foramen, supra-condyloid, exceptional oc- 

 currence of, in the humerus of man, i. 27. 

 125 ; in the early progenitors of man, i. 

 198. 



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

 115; on local variation of cdor in the 

 Queclmas, i. 237 ; on the hairlessness of 

 the Aymaras and Quechuas, ii. 307; on 

 the long hair of the Aymaras and Quo- 

 chuas, ii. 305, 331. 



Forel, F., on white young swans, ii. 202. 



