786 INDEX, 



Staphylinidae, hornlike processes in male, 338. 



Starfishes, parental feeling in, 120; bright colors of some, 295. 



Stark, Dr., on the death-rate in towns and rural districts, 157; on 

 the influence of marriage on mortality, 158; on the higher mortality 

 of males in Scotland, 275. 



Starling, American field, pugnacity of male, 417 ; red-winged, 

 selection of a mate by the female, 472. 



Starlings, three, frequenting the same nest, 248, 464; new mates 

 found by, 464. 



Statutes, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, etc., contrasted, 663. 



Stature, dependence of, upon local influences, 34. 



Staudinger, Dr., on breeding Lepidoptera, 284; his list of Lepidop- 

 tera, 284. 



Staunton, Sir G., hatred of indecency a modern virtue, 135. 



Stealing of bright objects by birds, 469. 



Stebbing, T. R. , on the nakedness of the human body, 685. 



Stemmatopus, 603. 



Stendhal, see Bombet. 



Stenohothrun pratorum, stridulation, 324. 



Stephen, Mr. L., on the difference in the minds of men and 

 animals, 88; on general concepts in animals, 100; distinction between 

 material and formal morality, 125. 



Sterility, general, of sole daughters, 153; when crossed, a dis- 

 tinctive character of species, 189 ; under changed conditions 

 215, 217. 



Sterna, seasonal change of plumage in, 561. 



Stickle-back, polygamous, 249; male, courtship of the, 376; male, 

 brilliant coloring of, during the breeding-season, 386. nidification of 

 the, 391. 



Sticks used as implements and weapons by monkeys, 91. 



Sting in bees, 235. 



Stokes, Capt., on the habits of the great bower-bird, 434. 



Stoliczka, Dr., on colors in snakes, 399. 



Stoliczka, on the pre-anal pores of lizards, 402. 



Stonechat, young of the, 555. 



Stone implements, difficulty of making, 55; as traces of extinct 

 tribes, 206. 



Stones, used by monkeys for breaking hard fruits and as missiles, 

 56; piles of, 204. 



Stork, black, sexual differences in the bronchi of the, 425; red 

 beak of the, 559. 



Storks, 559, 562; sexual difference in the color of the eyes of, 483. 



Strange, Mr., on the satin bower-bird, 434. 



Strepsiceros kudu, horns of, 583; markings of, 621. 



Stretch, Mr., on the numerical proportions in the sexes of 

 chickens, 280. 



Stridulation, by males of TheHdion, 309; of Homiptera, 319; of 

 the Orthoptera and Homoptera discussed, 327; of beetles, 341. 



Stripes, retained throughout groups of birds, 485; disappearance 

 of, in adult mammals, 624. 



Strix jlammea, 463. 



Structure, existence of unserviceable modifications of, 6. 



Struggle for existence, in man, 161, 166. 



