INDEX, 759 



Livonia, numerical proportion of male and female births in, 243, 

 275. 



Lizards, relative size of the sexes of, 401 ; gular pouches of, 402. 



Lloyd, L., on the polygamy of the capercailzie and bustard, 248; 

 on the numeral proportion of the sexes in the capercailzie and black- 

 cock, 280; on the salmon, 378; on the colors of the sea- scorpion. 382; 

 on the pugnacity of male grouse, 415; on the capercailzie and 

 black-cock, 416, 420; on the call of the capercailzie, 425; on assem- 

 blages of grouse and snipes, 460; on the pairing of a shield-drake 

 with a common duck, 471 ; on the battles of seals, 571 ; on the elk, 

 579. 



Lobivandlus, wing-spurs in, 414. 



Local influences, effect of, upon stature, 34. 



Lock wood, Mr., on the development of Hippocampus, 185. 



Lockwood, Rev. S., musical mouse, 648. 



Locust, bright- colored, rejected by lizards and birds, 328. 



Locust, migratory, 321; selection by female, 321. 



Locustidae, stridulation of the 320, 322; descent of the, 323. 



Locusts, proportion of sexes in, 287; stridulation of, 321. 



Longicorn beetles, IdifEerence of the sexes of, in color, 333; stridula- 

 tion of, 343. 



Lonsdale, Mr., on an example of personal attachment in Helix 

 pomatia, 296. 



Lophobranchii marsupial receptacles of the male, 392 



Lophophorus, habits of, 477. 



Lophorina atra^ sexual difference in coloration of, 559. 



Lophornis ornatus, 439. 



Lord, J. K., on Salmo lycaodon, 377. 



liory, King, 521; immature plumage of the, 532. 



Lory, king, constancy of, 466. 



Love-antics and dances of birds, 431. 



Lowne, B. T., on Musca v&mitoi'ia, 61, 318. 



Loxia, characters of young of, 529. 



Lubbock, Sir J., on the antiquity of man, 2; on the origin of man, 

 3; on the mental capacity of savages, 73; on the origin of imple- 

 ments, 93; on the simplification of languages, 104; on the absence of 

 the idea of God among certain races of men, 106; on the origin of the 

 belief in spiritual agencies, 107; on superstitions, 108; on the sense 

 of duty, 111; on the practice of burying the old and sick among the 

 Fijians, 116; on the immorality of savages, 135 ; on Mr. Wallace's 

 claim to the origination of the idea of natural selection, 55; on the 

 former barbarism of civilized nations, 162; on improvements in the 

 arts among savages, 164; on resemblances of the mental characters 

 in different races of men, 203; on the arts practiced by savages, 204; 

 on the power of counting in primeval man, 204; on the prehensile 

 organs of the male LaMdocera Darmnii, 301; on C fdoeon, 311; on 

 Smynthuriis luteus, 317; finding of new mates by jays, 463; on strife 

 for women among the North American Indians, 640; on music, 650; 

 on the ornamental practices of savages, 654; on the estimation of the 

 beard among the Anglo-Saxons, 663; on artificial defonnation of the 

 skull, 565; on "communal marriages," 671; on oxogamy, 673, 676; 

 on the Veddahs, 675; on polyandry, 677. 



Lucanidae, variability of the mandibles in the male, 339. 



