762 INDEX. 



Man, variability of, 29; erroneously regarded as more domesticatett 

 than other animals, 31; migrations of, 58; wide distribution of, 53; 

 causes of the nakedness of, 63; supposed physical inferiority of, 72; 

 a member of the Catarrhine group, 176; early progenitors of, 182; 

 transition from ape indefinite, 205; numerical proportions of thfe 

 sexes in, 243; difference between the sexes, 252; proportion of sexeS 

 among the illegitimate, 276 ; different complexion of male and 

 female negroes, 634 ; secondary sexual characters of, 634; primeval 

 condition of, 678. , 



Mandans, correlation of color and texture of hair in the, 225. 



Mandible, left, enlarged in the male of Taphruderes distortus, 313. 



Mandibles, use of the, in Ammophila, 312; large, of Corydalis 

 cornutus, 312; large, of male Lncanus elaphus, 312. 



Mandrill, number of caudal vertebrje in the, 65; colors of the male, 

 614, 617, 629. 



Mantegazza, Prof., on last molar teeth of man, 22; bright colors 

 in male animale, 254; on the ornaments of savages, 654 et seq.; on 

 the beardlessness of the New Zealanders, 663; on the exaggeration 

 of natural characters by man, 664. 



Mantell, W., on the engrossment of pretty girls by the New Zea- 

 land chiefs, 680. 



Mantis, pugnacity of species of, 710. 



Maories, mortality of, 210; infanticide and proportion of sexes, 

 3^; distaste for hairiness among men, 663; 



Marcus Aurelius, on the origin of the moral sense, 111; on the 

 influence of habitual thoughts, 139. 



Mareca penelope, 471. 



Marks, retained throughout groups of birds, 485. 



Marriage, restraints upon, among savages, 50; influence of, upon 

 morals, 134; influence of, on mortality, 157; development of, 673. 



Marriages, early, 156 et seq.; commual, 670, 672. 



Marshall, Dr. W., protuberances on birds' heads, 266, 435; on the 

 moulting of birds, 445; advantage to older birds of paradise, 552; 

 Marshall, Col., interbreeding among Todas, 215 ; infanticide and 

 proportion of sexes with Todas, 288 ; choice of husband among 

 Todas, 677; Marshall, Mr., on the brain of a Bush woman, 191. 



Marsupials, 179; development of the nictitating membrane in, 19; 

 uterus of, 43 ; possession of nipples by, 185 ; their origin from 

 Monotremata, 188; abdominal sacs of, 235; relative size of the sexes 

 of, 588; colors of, 609. 



Marsupium, rudimentary, in male marsupials, 183. 



Martin, W. C. L., on alarm manifested by an orang at the sight of 

 a turtle, 81; on the hair in Ilylohates, 172; on a female American 

 deer, 586; on the voice of IJyluhntes agilis, 602; on Semnopithecui 

 nemceus, 630; on the beards of the inhabitants of St. Kilda, 638. 



Martins deserting their young, 122. 



Martin, C, on death caused by inflammation of the vermiform 

 appendages, 23. 



Mastoid processes in man and apes, 59. 



Maudsley, Dr., on the influence of the sense of smell in man, 20; 

 on idiots smelling their food, 41; on Laura Bridgman, 99; on the 

 development of the vocal organs, 101; moral sense failing in 

 incipient madness, 140; change of mental faculties at puberty in man, 

 644. 



