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INDEX. 



Mammalia, Prof. Owen's classification of, 

 i. J 80; genealogy of the, i. 195. 



Mammals, secondary sexual characters of, 

 ii. 228 ; weapons of, ii. 230 ; recent and 

 tertiary, comparison of cranial capacity 

 of, i. 140 ; relative size of the sexes of, 

 ii. 248 ; pursuit of female, by the males, 

 i. 263 ; parallelism of, with birds in sec- 

 ondary sexual characters, ii. 283 ; voices 

 of, used especially during the breeding- 

 season, ii. 316, 317. 



Man, variability of, i. 104; erroneously re- 

 garded as more domesticated than other 

 animals, i. 107 ; definitive origin of, i. 

 226 ; migrations of, i. 131 ; wide distribu- 

 tion of, i. 132 ; causes of the nakedness 

 of, i. 143 ; supposed physical inferiority 

 of, i. 150; numerical proportions of the 

 sexes in, i. 255 ; a member of the Catar- 

 rhine group, i. 190; early progenitors of, 

 i. 198; secondaiy sexual characters of, 

 ii. 301 ; primeval condition of, ii. 351. 



Mandans, correlation of color and texture 

 of hair in the, i. 239. 



Mandible, left, enlarged in the male of 

 Taphroderes distortus, i. 334. 



Mandibles, use of the, in Ammophila, i. 

 332; large, of Corydalis cornutus, i. 

 332; large, of male Lucanus elaphus, i. 

 332. 



Mandrill, number of caudal vertebra? in 

 the, i. 144; colors of the male, ii. 279, 

 282, 295. 



Mantegazza, Prof., on the ornaments of 

 savages, ii. 322, et seqq. ; on the beard- 

 lessness of the New-Zealanders, ii. 332 ; 

 on the exaggeration of natural characters 

 by man, ii. 335. 



Mantell, W., on the engrossment of pret- 

 ty girls by the New-Zealand chiefs, ii. 

 352. 



Mantis, pugnacity of species of, i. 349. 



Marcus Aurelius, on the origin of the 

 moral sense, i. 68; on the influence of 

 habitual thoughts, i. 97. 



Mareca Penelope, ii. 109. 



Marks, retained throughout groups of 

 birds, ii. 126. 



Marriage, influence of, upon morals, i. 

 92; restraints upon, among savages, i. 

 128; influence of, on mortality, i. 169; 

 development of, ii. 345. 



Marriages, communal, ii. 342, 344 ; early, 

 i. 168. 



Marshall, Mr., on the brain of a Bush- 

 woinan, i. 208. 



Marsupials, i. 194 ; possession of nipples 

 by, i. 201 ; then origin from Monotrema- 

 ia, i. 204 ; uterus of, i. US ; development 

 of the nictitating membrane in, i. 23 ; ab- 

 dominal sacs of, i. 246; relative size of 

 the sexes of, ii. 248; colors of, ii. 272. 



Marsupium, rudimentary, in male marsu- 

 pials, i. 199. 



Martin, W. C. L., on alarm manifested by 

 an orang at the sight of a turtle, i. 42 ; 

 on the hair in Hylobates, i. 1S6; on a 

 female American deer, ii. 246; on the 



voice of Hylobates a gilds, ii. 264; cij 



Semnopithecus nemmus, ii. 297. 

 Martin, on the beards of the inhabitants 



of St. Kilda, ii. 306. 

 Martins deserting their young, i. 80. 

 Martins, C, on death caused by inflam- 

 mation of the vermiform appendage, 



27. 

 Mastoid processes in man and apes, i. 



13S. 

 Maudslet, Dr., on the influence of the 



sense of smell in man, i. 23; on Laura 



Bridgman, i. 57 ; on the development of 



the vocal organs, i. 57. 

 Maters, W. F., on the domestication of 



the goldfish in China, ii. 16. 

 Mathew, E., on the affection between 



individuals of different sexes in the dog, 



ii. 258. 

 Matnard, C. J., on the sexes of Chryse- 



mys picta, ii. 27. 

 Meckel, on correlated variation of the 



muscles of the arm and leg, i. 125. 

 Medicines, effect produced by, the same 



in man and in monkeys, i. 12. 

 Medusai, bright colors of some, i. 313. 

 Megalithic structures, prevalence of, i. 



224. 

 Megalophrys montana, sexual differences 



in, ii. 25, 26. 

 Megapicus validus, sexual difference of 



color in, ii. 166. 

 Megasoma, large size of males of, i. 337. 

 Meigs, Dr. A., on variation in the skulls of 



the natives of America, i. 104. 

 Meinecke, on the numerical proportion of 



the sexes in butterflies, i. 300. 

 Meliphagid^e, Australian, nidification of, 



ii'. 161. 

 Melita, secondary sexual characters of, i. 



322. 

 Meloe, difference of color in the sexes of a 



species of, i. 356. 

 Memory, manifestations of, in animals, i. 



43. 

 Memnon, young, i. 209. 

 Mental characters, difference of, in differ 



ent races of men, i. 208. 

 Mental faculties, variation of, in the same 



species, i. 35, 106; diversity of, in the 



same race of men, i. 105; inheritance of. 



i. 106 ; similarity of the, in different races 



of man, i. 223 ; of birds, ii. 103. 

 Mental powers, difference of, in the two 



sexes in man, ii. 310. 

 Menura AlberM, ii. 98; song of, ii. 53. 

 Menura svperba, ii. 97, 9S; long tails of 



hpth sexes of, ii. 157. 

 Merganser, trachea of the male, ii. 57. 

 Mergus cuenllatus, speculum of, i. 281. 

 Mergus merganser, young of, ii. 181. 

 Merganser serrator, male plumage of, ii. 



81. 

 Ihtallura, splendid tail-feathers of ii. 146. 

 Methoca ichnemnonides, large male of, L 



337. 

 Meves, M., ©n the drmmming cf the snipa 



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