STARLING. 



INDEX. 



SUPRA-CONDYLOID. 



679 



139 ; on the higher mortality of 

 males in Scotland, 243. 



Starling, American field-, pugnacity of 

 male, 367. 



— — — , red-winged, selection of a mate 

 by the female, 416. 



Starlings, three, frequenting the same 

 nest, 219, 409; new mates found 

 by, 408. 



Gtatues, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, 

 &c, contrasted, 581. 



Stature, dependence of, upon locvl 

 influences, 31. 



Staudinger, Dr., on breeding Lepid- 

 optera, 251 ; his list of Lepid- 

 optera, 252. 



Staunton, Sir G., hatred of indecency 

 a modern virtue, 119. 



Stealing of bright objects bv birds, 

 413. 



Stebbing, T. R., on the nakedness of 

 the human body, 600. 



Stemmatopxis, 528. 



Stendhal, see Bombet. 



Stenobotkrus pmto um, stridulation, 

 286. 



Stephen, Mr. L., on the difference in 

 the minds of men and animals, 78 ; 

 on general concepts in animals, 

 89 ; distinction between material 

 and formal morality, 111. 



Sterility, general, of sole daughters, 

 135 ; when crossed, a distinctive 

 character of species, 166 ; under 

 changed conditions, 189, 191. 



Sterna, seasonal change of plumage in, 

 493. 



Stickle-back, polygamous, 220 ; male, 

 courtship of the, 331 ; male, bril- 

 liant colouring of, during the breed- 

 ing season, 340 ; nidification of the, 

 345. 



Sticks used as implements and wea- 

 pons by monkeys, 81. 



Sting in bees, 208. 



Stokes, Capt., on the habits of the 

 great bower-bird, 381. 



Stoliczka, Dr., on colours in snakes, 

 352. 



Stonechat, young of the, 487. 



Stone implements, difficulty of making, 

 49 ; as traces of extinct tribes, 181. 



S*oue,i, used by monkeys for breaking 

 hard fruits and as missiles, 50 ; 

 piles ?f. 179. 



Stork, black, sexual differences in the 

 bronchi of the, 374 ; red beak of 

 the, 491. 



Storks, 491, 493 ; sexual difference 

 iu the colour of the eyes of, 425. 



Strange, Mr., on the satin bower- 

 bird, 381. 



Stretch, Mr., on the numerical pro- 

 portion in the sexes of chickens, 

 247. 



Strepsiceros kudu, horns of, 512; mark- 

 ings of, 543. 



Stridulation, by males of Tiieridlon, 

 274 ; of the Orthoptera and Homop- 

 tera discussed, 289 ; of beetles, 

 301. 



Stripes, retained throughout groups 

 of birds, 427 ; disappearance of, in 

 adult mammals, 546. 



Strix flammea, 408. 



Structure, existence of unserviceable 

 modifications of, 61. 



Struggle for existence, in man, 142, 

 146. 



Struthers, Dr., on the occurrence of 

 the supra-condyloid foramen in the 

 humerus of man, 21. 



Stnrnella ludoviciana, pugnacity of the 

 male, 367. 



Sturnus viclgaris, 408. 



Sub-species, 175. 



Suffering, in strangers, indifference 01 

 savages to, 117. 



Suicide, 137 ; formerly not regarded 

 as a crime, 117 ; rarely practised 

 among the lowest savages, 117. 



Suidas, stripes of young, 464. 



Sulivan, Sir B. J., on speaking of 

 parrots, 85 ; on two stallions at-, 

 tacking a third, 501. 



Sumatra, compression of the nose by 

 the Malays of, 583. 



Sumner, Archb., man alone capable of 

 progressive improvement, 79. 



Sun-birds, nidification of, 454. 



Superstitions, 144 ; prevalence of, 

 122. 



Superstitious customs, 96. 



Superciliary ridge in man, 556, 558. 



Supernumerary digits, more frequent 

 in men than in women, 223 ; in- 

 heritance of, 232 ; early develop- 

 ment of, 237. 



Supra-condyloid foramen in the early 

 progenitors of mau, 160. 



