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PEEEGRINE. 



INDEX. 



PIGEONS. 



Peregrine falcon, new mate found by, 



408. 

 Period of variability, relation of, to 



sexual selection, 240. 

 Periodicity, vital, Dr. Laycock, on, 8. 

 Periods, lunar, followed by functions 



in man and animals, 8, 164. 

 of life, inheritance at corre- 

 sponding, 228, 232, 

 Perisoreus canadensis, young of, 481. 

 Peritrichia, difference of colour in the 



sexes of a species of, 294. 

 Periwinkle, 262. 

 Pernis cristata, 424. 

 Terrier, M., on sexual selection, 210 ; 



on bees, 292. 

 Perseverance, a characteristic of man, 



564. 

 Persians, said to be improved by in- 

 termixture with Georgians and Cir- 



cassians, 586. 

 Personnat, M., on Bombyx Yamamai, 



251. 

 Peruvians, civilisation of the, not 



foreign, 145. 

 Petrels, colours of, 493. 

 Petrocincla cyanea, young of, 487. 

 Pet?*ocossyphus, 461. 

 Petronia, 483. 

 Pfeiffer Ida, on Javan ideas of beauty, 



580. 

 Phacochcerus mthiopicus, tusks and 



pads of, 519. 

 Phalanger, Vulpine, black varieties of 



the, 539. 

 P kalar opus fullcar ins, 476. 



■ hyperborvus, 476. 



Phanaus, 298. 



carnifex, variation of the horns 



of the male, 297. 

 faunus, sexual differences of, 



296. 



lancifer, 295. 



Phaseolarctus cincreus, taste for rum 

 and tobacco, 7. 



Phasgonura viridissima, stridulation 

 of,' 284, 285. 



Phasianus Sannmerringii, 446. 



versicolor, 396. 



Wallichii, 400, 472. 



Pheasant, polygamous, 219 ; and black 

 grouse, hybrids of, 414 ; productim 

 of hybrids with the common fowl, 

 420 immature plumage of the, 

 466. 



Pheasant, Amherst, display of, 396. 



, Argus, 334, 462 ; display o! 



plumage by the male, 398 ; ocel- 

 lated spots of the 428, 434 ; grada« 

 tion of characters in the, 434. 



, Blood-, 364. 



, Cheer, 400, 472. 



, Eared, 235, 400, 472 ; length 



of the tail in the, 452 ; sexes alika 

 in the, 460. 



, Golden, display of plumage 



by the male, 396 ; age of mature 

 plumage in the, 483 ; sex of young, 

 ascertained by pulling out head- 

 feathers, 484. 

 -, Kalij, drumming of the male, 



375. 



, Reeve's, length of the tail in, 



452. 



, Silver, triumphant male, de- 

 posed on account of spoiled plu- 

 mage, 419 ; sexual coloration of the, 

 492. 



, Scemmerring's, 445, 452. 



, Tragopan, 383 ; display of 



plumage by the male, 397 ; niark- 



, ings of the sexes of the, 428. 



Pheasants, period of acquisition of male 

 characters in the family of the, 

 235 ; proportion of sexes in chicks 

 of, 247 ; length of the tail in, 445, 

 451, 452. 



Philters, worn by women, 577. 



Phoca grcenlandtca, sexual difference 

 in the coloration of, 535. 



Phamicura ruticilla, 408. 



Phosphorescence of insects, 277. 



Phryganida?, copulation of distinct 

 species of, 275. 



Phryniscus nigricans, 349. 



Physical inferiority, supposed, of man, 

 64. 



Pickering, on the number of species 

 of man, 174. 



Picton, J. A., on the soul of man, 613. 



Picus auratus, 362. 



major, 402. 



Pieris, 312 ,319. 



Pigeon, female, deserting a weakened 

 mate, 214 ; carrier, late develop- 

 ment of the wattle in, 238 ; 

 pouter, late developreent of the 

 crop in, 238 ; domestic, breeds and 

 sub-breeds of, 460. 



Pigeons, nestling, fed by the secretiof 



