738 INDEX. 



savages of South Africa, G78; on the marriage-customs of tlie BasL- 

 \vomen, 684. 



Burke, on the number of species of man, 199. 



Burmese, color of the beard in, 637. 



Burton, Capt., on ue^ro ideas of female beauty, 660; on a universal 

 ideal of beauty, 664. 



Bushmen, 72; marriage among, 684. 



Bushwoman, extravagant ornamentation of a, 658. 



Bush women, hair of, 191; marriage-customs of, 684. 



Bustard, throat-pouch of the male, 423; bumming noise produced 

 by a ma'e, 429; Indian, ear-tufts of, 436. 



Bustards, occuirence of sexual differences and of polygamy among 

 the, 248; love-gestures of the male, 482; double moult in, 443, 444. 



Butler, A. U., on sexual differences in the wings of Aric.oris cpitus, 

 314; courtship, of butterflies, 348; on the coloring of the sexes in 

 species of Thecln, 3-31; on the resemblance of Ip/tias ylaucippe to a 

 leaf, 354; on the rejection of certain moths arid caterpillars by lizards 

 and frogs, 370. 



Butterfly, noise produced by a, 349; Emperor, 348, 350; meadow 

 brown, instability of the oscellated spots of, 486. 



Butterflies, proportion of the sexes in, 283; forelegs atrophied in 

 some males, 314; sexual difference in the neuration of the wings of, 

 314; pugnacity of male. 348; protective resemblances of the lower 

 surface of, 353; display of the wings by, 356; white, alighting upon 

 bits of paper, 359; attracted by a dead specimen of the same species, 

 360; courtship of, 360; male and female inhabiting different stations, 

 364. 



Buxton, C.. observations on macaws, 115; on an instance of benev- 

 olence in a parrot, 467. 



Buz/.anl. Indian honey, variation the crest of, 481. 



Cabbage butterflies, 354. 



Cachalot, large head of the male, 573. 



Cadences, musical perception of, by animals, 648. 



Caecum, 22; large, in the early progenitors of man, 183. 



Cnirina, moschata, pugnacity of the male, 411. 



California!! Indians, decrease of, 291. 



Cnlliaiiassd. chelae of, figured, 302. 



Cdllidrytiis, colors of sexes, 361. 



Callwnyuuis lyra, characters of the male, 381. 



Callorhiitits it-minus, relative size of the sexes of, 588; courtship 

 of, 596. 



dilutes maria, 406; Calotes nigrildbris, sexual difference in the 

 color of, 405. 



Cambridge, O. Pickard, on the sexes of spiders, 287; on the size of 

 male Ncphihi, 309. 



Camel, canine teeth of male, 572, 536. 



Campbell, J., on the Indian elephant, 246; on the proportion of 

 male and female births in the harems of Siain, 277. 



Cninpylopterus hemUeitcuriis, 281. 



Canaries distingushing persons, 467. 



Canary, polygamy of the, 249; change of plumage in, after moult- 

 ing, 269; female, selecting the best singing male, 418; sterile hybrid, 

 singing of a, 419; female, singing of the, 420; selecting a greenfinch, 

 472; and siskin, pairing; of, 472. 



