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INDEX. 



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Goodsir, Prof., on the affinity of the 

 lancelet to the ascidians, 159. 



Goosander, young of, 467. 



Goose, Antarctic, colours of the, 492. 



■ , Canada, pairing with a Ber- 



nicle gander, 414, 



— — , Chinese, knob on the Deak of 

 ths, 426. 



-■ — , Egyptian, 364. 



— — , Sevastopol, plumage of, 385. 



, Snow-, whiteness of the, 492. 



■ , Spur-winged, 364. 



Gorilla, 561 ; semi-erect attitude of 

 the, 52 ; mastoid processes of the, 

 53 ; direction of the hair on the 

 arms of the, 151 ; manner of sit- 

 ting, 151 ; supposed to be a kind of 

 mandrill, 177 ; polygamy of the 217, 

 590, 591; voice of the, 527; cra- 

 nium of, 553 ; fighting of male, 

 562. 



Gosse, P. II., on the pugnacity of the 

 male Humming-bird, 360. 



, M., on the inheritance of artifi- 

 cial modifications of the skull, 603. 



Gould, B. A., on variation in the 

 length of the legs in man, 26 ; 

 measurements of American soldiers, 

 30, 32 ; on the proportions of the 

 body and capacity of the lungs in 

 different races of men, 167 ; on the 

 the inferior vitality of mulattoes, 

 171. 



, J., on migration of swifts, 108 ; 



on the arrival of male snipes before 

 the females, 212; on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in birds, 

 247 ; on Neomo^pha Grypus, 359 ; 

 on the species of Eustephanus, 359 ; 

 on the Australian musk-duck, 359 ; 

 on the relative size of the sexes in 

 Briziura lobata and Cine lor amphus 

 cruralis, 362 ; on Lobivanellus loba- 

 tus, 366 ; on the habits of Menura 

 Alberti, 371 ; on the rarity of song 

 in brilliant birds, 371 ; on Selas- 

 phorus platycercus, 378 ; on the 

 Bower-birds, 381, 406 ; on the 

 ornamental plumage of the Hum- 

 ming-birds, 387 ; on the moulting 

 of the ptarmigan, 392 ; on the dis- 

 play of plumage by the male Hum- 

 ming-birds, 394 ; on the shyness of 

 adorned male birds, 403 ; on the 

 decoration of the bowers of Bower- 



birds, 413; on the decoration of 

 their nests by Humming-birds, 413 ; 

 on variation in the genus Cynan- 

 t.'<us, 423 ; on the colour of the 

 thighs in a male parakeet, 424 ; oe 

 Urosticte Benjamini, 442, 443 ; on 

 the nidification of the Orioles, 454 ■ 

 on obscurely-coloured birds build 

 ing concealed nests, 454; on trogons 

 and kingfishers, 456 ; on Austra- 

 lian parrots, 458 ; on Australian 

 pigeons, 458 ; on the moulting c* 

 the ptarmigan, 462 ; on the imma- 

 ture plumage of birds, 466 ctse/.; 

 on the Australian species of Tumix, 

 473; on the young of Ait hums poly - 

 tmus, 487 ; on the colours of the bills 

 of toucans, 491 ; on the relative 

 size of the sexes in the marsupials 

 of Australia, 515; on the colours 

 of the Marsupials, 533. 



Goureaux, on the stridulation of Mu- 

 tilla europcE", 293. 



Gout, sexually transmitted, 237. 



Graba, on the Pied Ravens of the 

 Feroe Islands, 424; variety of the 

 Guillemot, 424. 



Gradation of secondary sexual cha- 

 racters in birds, 430. 



Grallatores, absence of secondary 

 sexual characters in, 219 ; double 

 moult in some, 390. 



Grallina, nidification of, 454. 



Grasshoppers, stridulation of the, 286. 



Gratiolet, Prof, on the anthropo- 

 morphous apes, 154 ; on the evo- 

 lution of the anthropomorphous 

 apes, 177 ; on the difference in the 

 development of the brains of apes 

 and of man, 203. 



Gray, Asa, on the gradation of species 

 among the Composite, 175. 



, J. E., on the caudal vertebrae 



of monkeys, 58 ; on the presence 

 of rudiments of horns in the female 

 of Cervul'is moschatus, 504; on the 

 horns of goats and sheep, 505 ; on 

 the beard of the ibex, 531 ; on the 

 Berbura go?t, 533 ; on sexual dif- 

 ferences in the coloration of Rodents, 

 534 ; ornaments of male sloth, 534; 

 on the colours of the Elands, 535 ; 

 on the Sing-sing antelope, 536 ; 

 on the colours of goats, 536 ; on the 

 hog-deer, 546. 



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