562 



MOTHS. 



INDEX. 



MUSIC*. 



Moths, 313 ; absence of mouth in 

 some males, 208 ; apterous female, 

 208 ; male, prehensile use of the 

 tarsi by, 209; male, attracted by- 

 females, 252; coloration of, 315; 

 sexual differences of colour in, 31€. 



Motmot, inheritance of mutilation of 

 tail feathers, 60, 603 ; racket- 

 shaped feathers in the tail of a, 

 384. 



Moult, double, 463; double annual, 

 in birds, 390. 



Moulting of birds, 484. 



Moults, partial, 392, 



Mouse, song of, 568. 



Moustache-monkey, colours of the, 

 537, 552. 



Moustaches, in monkeys, 150. 



Mud-turtle, long claws of the male, 

 350. 



Mulattoes, persistent fertility of, 

 171; immunity of, from yellow 

 fever, 193. 



Mule, sterility and strong vitality of 

 the, 171. 



Mules, rational, 78. 



Muller, Ferd., on the Mexicans and 

 Peruvians, 145. 



, Fritz, on astomatous males of 



Tanais, 208 ; on the disappearance 

 of spots and stripes in adult mam- 

 mals, 547 ; on the proportions of 

 the sexes in some Crustacea, 255 ; 

 on secondary sexual characters in 

 various Crustaceans, 265 et seq. ; 

 musical contest between male Ci- 

 cadce, 282 ; mode of holding wings 

 inCastnia, 315 ; on birds shewing a 

 preference for certain colours, 317 ; 

 on the sexual maturity of young 

 amphipod Crustacea, 485. 



• , Hermann, emergence of bees 



from pupa, 214; pollen-gathering 

 of bees, 228 ; proportion of sexes 

 in bees, 254 ; courting of Uristalis, 

 280 ; colour and sexual selection 

 with bees, 292. 



, J., on the nictitating membrane 



and semilunar fold, 17. 



, Max, on the origin of language, 



87 ; language implies power of 

 general conception, 88; struggle 

 for life among the words, &c, of 

 languages, 91. 

 ■ . , S., on th« banteag, 536; on 



the colours of Semnopitkecus chry- 

 somelas, 537. 



Muntjac-deer, weapons of the, 514. 



Murie, J., on the reduction of organs, 

 12; on the ears of the Lemuroidea, 

 15 ; on variability of the muscles 

 in the Lemuroidea, 41, 48 ; basal 

 caudal vertebras of Macacus brun- 

 neus imbedded in the body, 59 ; 

 on the manner of sitting in short- 

 tailed apes, 59 ; on differences in 

 the Lemuroidea, 155; on the 

 throat-pouch of the male bustard, 

 373; on the mane of Otaria jubata, 

 521 ; on the sub-orbital pits oi 

 Ruminants, 529 ; on the colours of 

 the sexes in Otaria nigrescens, 535. 



Murray, A., on the J'ediculi of dif- 

 ferent races of men, 169. 



T. A., on the fertility of Austra- 

 lian women with white men, 170. 



Mus coninga, 80. 



minutus, sexual difference in the 



colour of, 534. 



Musca vomitoria, 54. 



Muscicapa grisola, 455. 



luctuosa, 455. 



ruticilla, breeding in immature 



plumage, 484. 



Muscle, ischio-pubic, 41. 



Muscles, rudimentary, occurrence of, 

 in man, 12 ; variability of the, 26 ; 

 effects of use and disuse upon, 32 ; 

 animal-like abnormalities of, in 

 man, 41 ; correlated variation of, 

 in the arm and leg, 44 ; variability 

 of, in the hands and feet, 48 ; of 

 the jaws, influence of, on the phy- 

 siognomy of the Apes, 54 ; habitual 

 spasms of, causing modifications of 

 the facial bones, 55 ; of the early 

 progenitors of man, 160 ; greater 

 variability of the, in men than in 

 women, 223. 



Musculus sternalis, Prof. Turner on 

 the, 13. 



Music, 178 ; of birds, 368 ; discord- 

 ant, love of savages for, 380 ; rea- 

 son of power of perception of notes 

 in animals, 568 ; power of distin- 

 guishing notes, 569 ; its connection 

 with primeval speech, 570; differ- 

 ent appreciation of, by different 

 peoples, 570 ; origin of, 569, 573 

 effects of, 571. 



