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MACHETE8. 



INDEX. 



MAMMALIA. 



S91 ; on the moulting of the 

 Anatidse, 393 ; on the finding of 

 new mates by magpies, 407 ; on 

 the pairing of a blackbird and 

 thrush, 414 ; on pied ravens, 424 ; 

 on the guillemots, 424 ; on the 

 colours of the tits, 458 ; on the 

 immature plumage of birds, 466 

 et seq. 



Machetes, sexes and vouns; of, 485 : 



pugnax, supposed to be polyga- 

 mous, 219 ; numerical proportion 

 of the sexes in, 248 ; pugnacity of 

 the male, 360 ; double moult in, 390. 



Mcintosh, Dr. colours of the Nemer- 

 tians, 265. 



McKennan, marriage customs of 

 Koraks, 598. 



Mackintosh, on the moral sense, 97. 



MacLachlan, R., on Apatania mulie- 

 bris and Bureus hyemalis, 254 ; 

 on the anal appendages of male 

 insects, 275 ; on the pairing of 

 dragon-flies, 279 ; on dragon-flies, 

 290, 291 ; on dimorphism in 

 Agriaii, 291 ; on the want of pug- 

 nacity in male dragon-flies, 291 ; 

 colour of ghost-moth in the Shet- 

 land Islands, 316. 



McLennan, Mr., on infanticide, 46, 

 591 ; on the origin of the belief in 

 spiritual agencies, 94; on the pre- 

 valence of licentiousness among 

 savages, 119, 588; on the primi- 

 tive barbarism of civilised nations, 

 143 ; on traces of the custom of 

 the forcible capture of wives, 144, 

 592 ; on polyandry, 593. 



Macnamara, Mr., susceptibility of 

 Andaman islanders and Nepalese 

 to change, 188. 



McNeill, Mr., on the use of the ant- 

 lers of deer, 510 ; on the Scotch 

 deerhound, 516; on the long hairs 

 on the throat of the stag, 522 ; on 

 the bellowing of stags, 526. 



Macropus, courtship of, 341. 



Macrorhinus proboscideus, structure 

 of the nose of, 528. 



Magpie ; power of speech of, 90 ; 

 nuptial assemblies of, 406 ; new 

 mates found by, 407 ; stealing 

 bright objects, 413 ; young of the, 

 481 ; coloration of the, 493. 



Magpies, vocal orgaoa of the, 370. 



Maillard, M., on the proportion of 

 the sexes in a species of Papiiio 

 from Bourbon, 250. 



Maine, Sir Henry, on the absorption 

 of one tribe by another, 128; a 

 desire for improvement not general, 

 132. 



Major, Dr. C. Forsyth, on fossil 

 Italian apes, 155; skull of Bos 

 etruscus, 505 ; tusks of miocene 

 pigs, 521. 



Makalolo, perforation of the upper 

 lip by the, 576. 



Malar bone, abnormal division of, in 

 man, 39. 



Malay, Archipelago, marriage-cus^ 

 toms of the savages of the, 598. 



Malays, line of separation between 

 the Papuans and the, 169 ; genera! 

 beardlessness of the, 560 ; staining 

 of the teeth among, 574 ; aversion 

 of some, to hairs on the face, 

 581. 



and Papuans, contrasted cha- 

 racters of, 168. 



Male animals, struggles of, for the 

 possession of the females, 212, 213-; 

 eagerness of, in courtship, 221, 

 222 ; generally more modified than 

 female, 221, 223 ; differ in the, same 

 way from females and young, 232. 



characters, developed in females, 



227 : transfer of, to female birds, 

 471.' 



, sedentary, of a hymenopterous 



parasite, 221. 



Malefactors, 137. 



Males, presence of rudimentary female 

 organs in, 162. 



and females, comparative num- 

 bers of, 213, 215; comparative 

 mortality of, while young, 216. 



Malherbe, on the woodpeckers, 458. 



Mallotus peronii, 331. 



villosuSf 331. 



Malthus, T., on the rate of increase 

 of population, 44, 45. 46. 



Maluridae, nidification of the, 454-. 



Malurus, young of, 485. 



Mammae, 208 ; rudimentary, in male 

 mammals, 11, 23, 161, 162,163; 

 supernumerary, in women, 36 ; oi 

 male human subject, 37. 



Mammalia, Prof. Owen's classification 

 of, 148 ; genealogy of the, 158. 



