INDEX. 729 



Cancer pa gurus, 301. 



Canestrini, G., on rudimentary characters and the origin of 

 man, 3; on rudimentary characters, 12; on the movement of the ear 

 in man, 15; on the variability of the vermiform appendage in man, 

 23; on the abnormal division of the malar bom; in n.an, 44; on 

 abnormal conditions of the human uterus, 44; on the persistence of 

 the frontal suture in man, 44; on the proportion of the texes in silk- 

 inothf, 282, 284; secondary sexual characters of spiders, 307. 



Canfield, Dr., on the horns of the Autilocapra, 265. 



Canine teeth in man, 45; diminution of, in man, CO; diminution of, 

 in horses, 60; disappearance of, in male ruurnants, GO; large in the 

 early progenitors of man, 182. 



Canines and horns, inverse development of, 586. 



Canoes, use of, 54, 205. 



Cantharis, difference of color in the sexes of a species of, 333. 



Cant/uiruv lineatus, 386. 



Capercailzie, polygamous, 248; proportion of the sexes in the, 280; 

 pugnacity of the male, 412; pairing of tbe, 416; autumn meetings of 

 the, 420; call of the, 425; duration of the comthhipof, 460; behaviour 

 of the female, 476; inconvenience of black color to the fen. ale, 505; 

 sexual difference in the coloration of the, 559; crimson eyecere of the 

 male, 559. 



Capitonidae, colors and nidification of the, 518. 



Capra cagagrus, 579; crest of the male, 606; sexual difference in 

 the color of, 612. 



Capreolus Sibiricus subecaudatus, 619. 



Caprice, common to man and animals. 105. 



Caprimulyus, noise made by the males of some species of, wKn 

 their wings, 426: Caprimidgus tirgiidauus, pairing of, 416. 



Carabidae, 343. 



Carbonnier, on the natural history of the pike, 281 ; on the rela- 

 tive size of the sexes in fishes, 380; courtship of Chinese Macropus, 

 387. 



Carcineutes, sexual difference of color in, 520. 



Carcin.us m&ii.as, 303. 304. 



Cardinalis Virginian us, 255. 



Carduelis clegans, sexual differences of the beak in, 408. 



Carnivora, marine, polygamous habits of, 247 , sexual differences 

 in the colors of, 610. 



Carp, numerical proportion of the sexes in the, 282. 



Carr, It., on the peewit, 414. 



Carrier pigeon, late development of the wattle in the, 2C9. 



Carrion beetles, stridulation of, 342. 



Carrion-hawk, bright colored female of, 546. 



Cams, Prof. V., on the development of the horns in merino sheep, 

 266; on antlers of red deer, 581. 



Cassowary, sexes and incubation of the, 544 



Castnia, mode of holding wings, 357. 



Castoreuin, 604. 



Castration, effects of, 577. 



Casuarius yalcatus, 544. 



Cat, convoluted body in the extremity of a tail of a, 26; sick, sym- 

 pathy of a dog witli a, 110. 



