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HOTTENTOT. 



INDEX. 



HYI'KOPOBUS. 



preferences in, 524; pairing pre- 

 ferently with those of the same 

 colour, 540 ; numerical proportion 

 of male and female births in, 245 ; 

 formerly striped, 547. 

 Hottentot women, peculiarities of, 1 74. 

 Hottentots, lice of, 170; readily be- 

 come musicians, 570 ; notions of 

 female beauty of the, 578; com- 

 pression of nose by, 583. 

 Hough, Dr. S., men's temperature 

 more variable than women's, 224 ; 

 proportion of sexes in man, 243. 

 House-slaves, difference of, from field- 

 slaves, 196. 

 Houzeau, on the baying of the dog, 

 75 ; on reason in dogs, 76 ; birds 

 killed by telegraph wires, 80 ; on 

 the cries of domestic fowls and 

 parrots, 85, 87 ; animals feel no 

 pity, 102 ; suicide in the Aleutian 

 islands, 117. 

 Howorth, H. H., extinction of savages, 



183. 

 Huber, P., on ants playing together, 

 69 ; on memory in ants, 74 ; on the 

 intercommunication of ants, 89 ; on 

 the recognition of each other by 

 ants after separation, 292. 

 Hue, on Chinese opinions of the ap- 

 pearance of Europeans, 578. 

 Huia, the, of New Zealand, 208. 

 Human, man classed alone in a, king- 

 dom, 147. 



■ sacrifices, 96. 



Humanity, unknown among some 

 savages, 118 ; deficiency of, among 

 savages, 123. 

 Humboldt, A. von, on the rationality 

 of mules, 78 ; on a parrot preserv- 

 ing the language of a lost tribe, 

 181 ; on the cosmetic arts of 

 savages, 574 ; on the exaggeration 

 of natural characters by man, 582 ; 

 on the red painting of American 

 Indians, 583. 

 Hume, D., on sympathetic feelings, 



109. 

 Humming-bird, racket-shaped feathers 

 in the tail of a, 384 ; display of 

 plumage by the male, 394. 

 Humming-birds, ornament their nests, 

 92, 413; polygamous, 219; pro- 

 portion of the sexes in, 248, 488 ; 

 sexual differences in, 359, 442 ; 



pugnacity of male, 360 ; modified 

 prirmaries of male, 378; coloration 

 of the sexes of, 387; display by, 443; 

 nidification of the, 453 ; colours of 

 female, 453 ; young of, 487. 

 Humphreys, H. N., on the habits of 



the stickle-back, 220, 332. 

 Hunger, instinct of, 112. 

 Huns, ancient, flattening of the nose 



by the, 583. 

 Hunter, J., on the number of species 

 of man, 174 ; on secondary sexual 

 characters, 207 ; on the general 

 behaviour of female animals during 

 courtship, 222 ; on the muscles of 

 the larynx in song-birds, 371; on 

 the curled frontal hair of the bull, 

 531 ; on the rejection of an ass by 

 a female zebra, 540. 

 Hunter, W. W., on the recent rapid 

 increase of the Santali, 45 ; on the 

 Santali, 192. 

 Huss, Dr. Max, on mammary glands, 



162. 

 Hussey, Mr., on a partridge distin- 

 guishing persons, 412. 

 Hutchinson, Col., example of reason- 

 ing in a retriever, 78. 

 Hutton, Capt., on the male wild goat 



falling on his horns, 507. 

 Huxley, T. H., on the structural 

 agreement of man with the apes, 

 2 ; on the agreement of the brain 

 in man with that of lower animals, 

 6 ; on the adult age of the orang, 

 8 ; on the embryonic development 

 of man, 9 ; on the origin of man, 

 3, 11 ; on variation in the skulls of 

 the natives of Australia, 26 ; on 

 the abductor of the fifth meta- 

 tarsal in apes, 42 ; on the nature 

 of the reasoning power, 77 ; on the 

 position of man, 150 ; on the sub- 

 orders of primates, 152 ; on the 

 Lemundae, 157 ; on the Dinosauria, 

 158 ; on the amphibian affinities of 

 the Ichthyosaurians, 159 ; on vari- 

 ability of the skull in certain races 

 of man, 174; on the races of man, 

 176; supplement on the brain, 199. 

 Hybrid birds, production of, 414. 

 Hydrophobia communicable between 



man and the lower animals, 7. 

 Hydropoms, dimorphism of fexfi.'ita 

 of, 276. 



