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WATER-OUZEL. 



INDEX. 



WESTWOOD. 



Water-ouzel, 455 ; autumn song of 

 the, 370. 



Waterton, C, on the Bell-oird, 389 ; 

 on the pairing of a CanacU goose 

 with a Bernicle gander, 414 ; on 

 hares righting, 500. 



Wattles, disadvantageous to male 

 birds in fighting, 404. 



Weale, J. Mansel, on a South African 

 caterpillar, 325. 



Wealth, influence of, 134. 



Weapons, used by man, 48 ; employed 

 by monkeys, 81 ; offensive, of males, 

 210; of mammals, 501 et seq. 



Weaver-bird, 370. 



Weaver-birds, rattling of the wings 

 of, 375; assemblies of, 405. 



Webb, Dr., on the wisdom teeth, 20. 



Wedderburn, Mr., assembly of black 

 game, 407. 



Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on the origin 

 of language, 87. 



Weevils, sexual difference in length of 

 snout in some, 208. 



Weir, Harrison, on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in pigs and 

 rabbits, 247 ; on the sexes of young 

 pigeons, 247 ; on the songs of birds, 

 368; on pigeons, 411; on the dis- 

 like of blue pigeons to other co- 

 loured varieties, 417 ; on the de- 

 sertion of their mates by female 

 pigeons, 418. 



, J. Jenner, on the nightingale 



and blackcap, 212 ; on the relative 

 sexual maturity of male birds, 213 ; 

 on female pigeons deserting a feeble 

 mate, 214; on three starlings fre- 

 quenting the same nest, 219 ; on 

 the proportion of the sexes in Ma- 

 chetes pujnax and other birds, 247, 

 248 ; on the coloration of the Tri- 

 phcence, 313; on the rejection of 

 certain caterpillars by birds, 326 ; 

 on sexual differences of the beak in 

 the goldfinch, 360 ; on a piping 

 bullfinch, 369 ; on the object of the 

 nightingale's song, 368; on song- 

 birds, 369 ; on the pugnacity of 

 male fiue-plumaged birds, 400 ; on 

 the courtship of birds, 401 ; on the 

 finding of new mates by Peregrine- 

 falcons and Kestrels, 408 ; on the 

 bullfinch and starling, 408 ; on the 

 cause of birds remaining unpaired, 



409 ; on starlings and parrots living 

 in triplets, 409 ; on recognition of 

 colour by birds, 411 ; on hybrid 

 bh'ds, 414; on the selection of a 

 greenfinch by a female canary, 415 ; 

 on a case of rivalry of female bull- 

 finches, 420 ; on the maturity of 

 the golden-pheasant, 483. 



Weisbach, Dr., measurement of men 

 of different races, 167 ; on the 

 greater variability of men than of 

 women, 223; on the relative pro- 

 portions of the body in the sexes of 

 different races of man, 559. 



Weismann, Prof., colours of Lycccncc, 

 312. 



Welcker, M., on brachycephaly and 

 dolichocephaly, 56 ; on sexual dif- 

 ferences in the skull in man, 557. 



Wells, Dr., on the immunity of co- 

 loured races from certain j:>oisous, 

 193. 



WestriDg, on the stridulation of males 

 of T'neridion, 273; on the stridu- 

 lation of Reduvius pcrsonatus, 281 ; 

 on the stridulation of beetles, 302 ; 

 on the stridulation of (Jmdoplia 

 brunnea, 303 ; on the stridulating 

 organs of the Coieoptera, 304 ; 

 on sounds produced by Cychrus, 

 304. 



Westropp, H. M., on reason in a bear, 

 76 ; on the prevalence of certain 

 forms of ornamentation, 179. 



Westwood, J. O., on the classification 

 of the Hymenoptera, 148 ; on the 

 Culicidae and Tabanidae, 208 ; on a 

 Hymenopterous parasite with a 

 sedentary male, 221; on the pro- 

 portions of the sexes in Lucanus 

 cerius and Ski ionium, 253 ; on the 

 absence of ocelli in- female mu- 

 tillidae, 274 ; on the jaws of Am- 

 mophila, 275 ; on the copulation of 

 insects of distinct species, 275 ; on 

 the male of Crabrv cribraritis, 276 

 on the puguacity of male 7ipulce, 

 280 ; on the stridulatiou of Pirates 

 stridulus, 281 ; ou the Cicadae, 281 ; 

 on the stridulating organs of the 

 crickets, 284 ; on Ephipp'ujer titium, 

 284, 288 ; on Pneumora, 287 ; on 

 the pugnacity of the Mantides, 289; 

 on Plati/blernnus, 2S9 ; on difference 

 in the sexes of the Agrionidac, 290; 



