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INDEX. 



Powys, Mr., on the habits of the chaffinch 

 in Corfu, i. 298. 



Preeminence of man, i. 131. 



Preference for males by female birds, ii. 

 10S, 117: shown by mammals, in pair- 

 ing', ii. 256. 



Prehensile organs, i. 248. 



Presbytia entellus, fighting of the male, ii. 

 309. 



Preyer, Dr. on supernumerary mammae 

 in women, .. 120. 



Prichard, on the difference of stature 

 among the Polynesians, i. 110; on the 

 connection between the breadth of the 

 skull in the Mongolians and the perfec- 

 tion of their senses, i. 114; on the ca- 

 pacity of British skulls of different ages, 

 i. 140 ; on the flattened heads of the 

 Colombian savages, ii. 324; on Siamese 

 notions of beauty, ii. 329 ; on the beard- 

 lessness of the Siamese, ii. 332 ; on the 

 deformation of the head among Ameri- 

 can tribes and the natives of Arakhan, ii. 

 835. 



Primary sexual organs, i. 246. 



Primates, i. 183; sexual differences of 

 color in, ii. 277. 



Primogeniture, evils of, i. 163. 



Primula, relation between number and 

 size of seeds in, i. 309. 



PrionidjE, difference of the sexes in color, 

 i. 356. 



Proctotretus multimacidatus, ii, 24, 35. 



Proctotretus tenuis, sexual difference in 

 the color of, ii. 35. 



Profligacy, i. 166. 



Progenitors, early, of man, i. 198. 



Progress, not the normal rule in human 

 society, i. 160; elements of, i. 170. 



Prong-horn, horns of, i. 2S0. 



Proportions, difference of, in distinct 

 races, i. 208. 



Protective coloring in butterflies, i. 392 ; 

 in lizards, ii. 35; in birds, ii. 188, 214; in 

 mammals, ii. 2S3, 284. 



Protective nature of the dull coloring of 

 female Lepidoplera, i. 390, 392, 401. 



Protective resemblances in fishes, ii. IS. 



Protozoa, absence of secondary sexu'al 

 characters in, i. 312. 



Pruner-Bey, on the occurrence of the 

 supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus 

 of man, i. 28 ; on the color of negro in- 

 fants, ii. 303. 



Prussia, numerical proportion of male and 

 female births in, i. 292. 



Psocus, proportions of the sexes in, i. 

 306. 



Ptarmigan, monogamous, i. 261 ; summer 

 and winter plumage of the, ii. 78, 79; 

 nuptial assemblages of, ii. 97 ; triple 

 moult of the ii 173 ; protective colora- 

 tion of, ii. 189. 



Puff-birds, colors and nidification of the, 

 ii. 163. 



Pugnacity of fine-plumaged male birds, 

 ii. 89. 



Pumas, stripes of young, ii. 175. 



Puppies learning from cats to clean their 

 faces, i. 43. 



Pycnonottis hwmorrJioits, pugnacity of 

 the male, ii. 39; display of under-tai. 

 coverts by the male, ii. 91. 



Pyranga ozstiva, male aiding in incuba- 

 tion, ii. 159. 



Pyrodes, difference of the sexes in color, 

 i. 356. 



Q. 



Quadrumana, hands of, i. 134; differences 

 between man and the, i. 1S3 ; dependence 

 of, on chmate, i. 210 ; sexual differences 

 of color in, ii. 276; ornamental charac- 

 ters of, ii, 291 ; analogy of sexual differ- 

 ences of, with those of man, ii. 303 ; fight- 

 ing of males for the females, ii. 309 ; mo- 

 nogamous habits of, ii. 345 ;' beards of the, 

 ii. 361. 



Quain, K., on the variation of the muscles 

 in man, i. 105. 



Quatrefages, A. de, on the occurrence of 

 a rudimentary tail in man, i. 28 ; on the 

 moral sense as a distinction between 

 man and animals, i. 67 ; on variability, i. 

 108 ; on the fertility of Australian women 

 with white men, i. 213 ; on the Paulistas 

 of Brazil, i. 216; on the evolution of the 

 breeds of cattle, i. 222 ; on the Jews, i. 

 233; on the liability of negroes to tropi- 

 cal fevers after residence in a cold cli- 

 mate, i. 234 ; on the difference between 

 field- and house-slaves, i. 237 ; on the in- 

 fluence of climate on color, i. 237 ; on the 

 Ainos, ii. 306; on the women of San 

 Giuliano, ii. 341. 



Quechua Indians, i. 114; local variation of 

 color in the, i. 237 ; no gray hair among 

 the, ii. 320 ; hairlessness of the, ii. 307 ; 

 long hair of the, ii. 331. 



Querquedula acuta, ii. 109. 



Quiscalus major, proportions of the sexes 

 of, in Florida and Honduras, i. 298. 



Babbit, white tail of the, ii. 284. 



Babbits, danger-signals of, i. 71 ; domestic 

 elongation of the skull in, i. 142 ; modifi- 

 cation of the skull in, by the lopping of 

 the ear, i. 142 ; numerical proportion of 

 the sexes in, i. 295. 



Baces, distinctive characters of, i. 208 ; or 

 species of man, i. 210; crossed, fertility 

 or sterility of, i. 212 ; of man, variability 

 of the, i. 217; of man, resemblance of. in 

 mental characters, i. 223 ; formation of, i. 

 225 ; of man, extinction of. i. 226 ; effects 

 of the crossing of, i. 231 ; of man, forma- 

 tion of the, i. 231 ; of man, children of 

 the, ii. 303; beardless, aversion of, tt 

 hairs on the face, ii. 883. 



Baffles, Sir S., on the Banteng, ii. 276. 



Bafts, use of, i. 132, 225. 



Bage, manifested by animals, i. 89. 



