674 



SAILORS. 



INDEX. 



SCHOMBURGK. 



Sailors and soldiers, difference in the 



proportions of, 32. 

 St. John, Mr., on the attachment of 



mated birds. 410. 

 St. Kilda, beards of the inhabitants 



of, 560. 

 Salmo eriox, and S. umbla, colouring 



of the male, 

 season, 340. 



during 



the 



breeding; 



iycaodon, 333. 



salar, 333. 



Salmon leaping out 

 107 ; male, ready 

 the female, 212 ; 



the sexes in, 249 ; 



of fresh water, 

 to breed before 

 proportion of 



male, pugna- 



city of the, 332 ; male, characters 

 of, during the breeding season, 332, 

 340 ; spawning of the, 344 ; breed- 

 ing of immature male, 485. 



Salvin, O., inheritance of mutilated 

 feathers, 60, 384, 603; on the 

 Humming-birds, 219,454; on the 

 numerical proportion of the sexes 

 in Humming-birds, 248, 487 ; on 

 Chamcepetes and Penelope, 377 ; 

 on Selasphorus platycercus, 378; 

 Pipra deliciosa, 378 ; on C/iasmo- 

 rliynchus, 389. 



Samoa Islands, beardlessness of the 

 natives of, 560, 581. 



Sand-skipper, 270. 



Sandwich Islands, variation in the 

 skulls of the natives of the, 26; 

 decrease of native population, 186 ; 

 population of, 257 ; superiority of 

 the nobles in the, 587. 



Islanders, lice of, 170. 



San-Giuliano, women of, 586. 



Santali, recent rapid increase of the, 

 45; Mr. Hunter on the, 192. 



Saphirina, characters of the males of, 

 271. 



Sarkidiornis mefanonotus, characters 

 of the young, 465. 



Sars, O., on Pontoporeia affinis, 

 266. 



Saiurnia carpini, attraction of males 

 by the female, 252. 



lo, difference of coloration in the 



sexes of, 316. 



114, 



Saturnildcc, coloration of the, 



315. 

 Savage, Dr., on the fighting of the 



male gorillas, 562 ; on the habits 



of the gorilla, 591. 



Savage and Wyman on the polyga- 

 mous habits of the gorilla, 217. 



Savages, uniformity of, exaggerated, 

 28 ; long-sighted, 33 ; rate of in- 

 crease among, usually small, 45 ; 

 retention of the prehensile power 

 of the feet by, 52 ; imitative facul- 

 ties of, 87 ; 129 ; causes of low 

 morality of, 119; tribes of, sup- 

 planting one another, 128 ; im- 

 provements in the arts among, 

 144 ; arts of, 179 ; fondness of, 

 for rough music, 380 ; attention 

 paid by, to personal appearance, 

 574 ; relation of the sexes among, 

 591. 



Saviotti, Dr., division of malar bone, 

 39. 



Saw-fly, pugnacity of a male, 291. 



Saw-flies, proportions of ihe sexes in, 

 254. 



Saxicola rubicola, young of, 487. 



Scalp, motion of the, 13. 



Scent-glands in snakes, 352. 



Schaaffhausen, Prof., on the develop- 

 ment of the posterior molars in 

 different races of man, 20 ; on the 

 jaw from La Naulette, 40 ; on the 

 correlation between muscularity 

 and prominent supra-orbital ridges, 

 44 ; on the mastoid processes of 

 man, 53 ; on modifications of the 

 cranial bones, 56 ; on human sacri- 

 fices, 144 ; on the probable speedy 

 extermination of the anthropomor- 

 phous apes, 156 ; on the ancient 

 inhabitants of Europe, 181 ; on 

 the effects of use and disuse of 

 parts, 197 ; on the superciliary 

 ridge in man, 556 ; on the ab- 

 sence of race-differences in the in- 

 fant skull in man, 557 ; on ugliness, 

 584. 



Schaum, H., on the elytra of Dytiscua 

 and Hydroporus, 276. 



Schelver, on dragon-flies, 290. 



Schiodte, on the stridulation of Hete- 

 rocerus, 302. 



Schlegel, F. von, on the complexity of 

 the languages of uncivilised peo- 

 ples, 91. 



, Prof., on Tanysiptera, 468. 



Schleicher, Prof., on the origin of 

 language, 87. 



Schomburgk, Sir R., on the pugnacitj 



