INDEX. 729 



Cancer pagurus, 301. 



C'auestrini, U., on rudimentary cliaracters and the origin of 

 man, 8; on rudimentary characters, 12; on the movement of the ear 

 in man, 15; on the variability of the vermiform appendage in man, 

 23; on the abnormal division of the malar bone in man, 44; on 

 abnormal conditions of the human uterus, 44; on the persistence of 

 the frontal suture in man, 44; on the proportion of the sexes in silk- 

 moths, 282, 284; secondary sexual characters of spiders, 307. 



Canfield, Dr., on the horns of the AntUocapra, 265. 



Canine teeth in man, 45; diminution of, in man, 60; diminution of, 

 in horses, 60; disappearance of, in male rum'nants, 60; large in the 

 early progenitors of man, 182. 



Canines and horns, inverse development of, 586. 



Canoes, use of, 54, 205. 



CantJiaHs, difference of color in the sexes of a species of, 333. 



Canthaims lineatus, 386. 



Capercailzie, polygamous, 248; proportion of the sexes in the, 280; 

 pugnacity of the male, 412; pairing of the, 416; autumn meetings of 

 the, 420; call of the, 425; duration of the courtship of, 460; behaviour 

 of the female, 476; inconvenience of black color to the female, 505; 

 sexual difference in the coloration of the, 559; crimson eyecere of the 

 male, 559. 



Capitonidae, colors and nidification of the, 518. 



Gapra (Egagrus, 579; crest of the male, 606; sexual difference in 

 the color of, 612. 



Capreolus Sibiricus siibecaudatus, 619. 



Caprice, common to man and animals, 105. 



Caprimidgus, noise made by the males of some species of, with 

 their wings, 426; GapHmulgus virginiamts, pairing of, 416. 



Carabidae, 343. 



Carbonnier, on the natural history of the pike, 281 ; on the rela- 

 tive size of the sexes in fishes, 380; courtship of Chinese Macropus, 

 387. 



Carcineutes, sexual difference of color in, 520. 



Carcinus mmnas, 303, 304. 



Cardinalis mrginianus, 255. 



Carduelis degans, sexual differences of the beak in, 408. 



Carnivora, marine, polygamous habits of, 247 ; sexual differences 

 in the colors of, 610. 



Carp, numerical proportion of the sexes in the, 282. 



Carr, R., on the peewit, 414. 



Carrier pigeon, late development of the wattle in the, 269. 



Carrion beetles, stridulation of, 342. 



Carrion-hawk, bright colored female of, 546. 



Cams, Prof. V. , on the development of the horns in merino sheep, 

 266; on antlers of red deer, 581. 



Cassowary, sexes and incubation of the, 544. 



Castnia, mode of holding wings, 357. 



Castoreum, 604. 



Castration, effects of, 577. 



Casuarius galeatus, 544. 



Cat, convoluted body in the extremity of a tail of a, 26; sick, sym- 

 pathy of a dog with a, 116. 



