746 INDEX. 



Giard, M., disputes descent of vertebrates from Ascidians, 182, 

 color of sponges and Ascidians, 295; musky odor of Sphinx, 849. 



Gibbon, voice of, 602, 647. 



Gibbon, Hoolock, nose of, 171. 



Gibbs, Sir D., on differences of the voice indifferent races of men, 

 646. 



Gill, Dr., male seals larger than females, 247; sexual differences 

 in seals, 588. 



Giraffe, its mode of using the horns, 580; mute, except in the rut- 

 ting season, 600. 



Giraud Teulon, on the cause of short sight, 38. 



Glanders, communicable to man from the lower animals, 7. 



Glands, odoriferous, in mammals, 604, 605. 



Qlareola, double moult in, 442. 



Glomeris limbata, difference of color in the sexes of, 310. 



Glow-worm, female apterous, 235; luminosity of the, 314. 



Gnants, dances of, 318; auditory powers of, 648. 



Gnu, skeletons of, found locked together, 571; sexual differences 

 in the color of the, 612. 



Goat, male, wild, falling on his horns, 579; male, odor, emittted 

 by, 604; male, wild crest of the, 608; Berbura, mane, dewlap, etc., 

 of the male, 608; Kemas, sexual difference in the color of the, 612. 



Goats, sexual differences in the horns of, 260; horns of, 266; mode 

 of fighting of, 579; domestic, sexual differences of, late developed, 

 269; beards of, 606. 



Goatsucker, Virginian, pairing of the, 416. 



Gobies, nidification of, 391. 



God, want of the idea of, in some races of men, 105. 



Godron M., on variability, 33; on difference of stature, 35; on the 

 want of connection between climate and the color of the skin, 219; 

 on the color of the skin, 225; on the color of infants. 636. 



Goldfinch, 421, 446; proportion of the sexes in the, 281; sexual 

 differences of the beak in the, 409; courtship of the, 455; North 

 American, young of, 553. 



Goldfish. 388, 389. 



Oomphus, proportions of the sexes in, 287; difference in the sexes 

 of, 328. 



Oonepteryx Rhamni, 354, sexual difference of color in, 365. 



Goodsir, Prof., on the affinity of the lancelet to the ascidians, 181. 



Goosander, young of, 532. 



Goose, Antarctic, colors of the, 560; Canada, pairing with a Ber- 

 nicle gander, 471; Chinese, knob on the beak of the, 484; Egyptian, 

 414; Sebastopol, plumage of, 438; snow, whiteness of the, 561; spur- 

 winged, 414. 



(ilorilla, 640; semi-erect attitude of the, 58; mastoid processes of 

 the, 59; protecting himself from the rain with his hands, 172; manner 

 of sitting, 172; supposed to be a kind of mandrill, 202; polygamy of 

 the, 245, 647, 675; voice of the, 602; cranium of, 636; fighting of 

 male, 641. 



Gosse, P. H., on the pugnacity of the male humming-bird, 409; 

 Gosse, M., on the inheritance of artificial modifications of the skull, 

 689. 



Gould, B. A., on variation in the length of the legs in man, 29; 



