INDEX. 759 



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

 275. 



Lizards, relative size of tlie 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 

 Avith a common duck, 471; on the battles ot seals, 571; on the elk, 

 579. 



Lubicanellus, wing-spurs in, 414. 



Local influences, effect of, upon stature, 34. 



Lockwood, Mr., on the development of Hippocampus, 185. 



Lock wood, Hev. 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. 



Longicoru beetles, difference of the sexes of, in color, 333; stridula- 

 tion of, 343. 



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

 pomatiit, 296. 



Lophobranchii marsupial receptacles of the male, 392. 



Loph<tph<ini8, habits of, 477. 



Jjophot'iiut at rd, sexual difference in coloration of, 559. 



Lophorniif oruatum, 439. 



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



Lory, King, 521; immature pi uuiage of the, 533. 



Lory, king, constancy of, 466. 



Love-antios and dances of birds, 431. 



Lowne, B. T., on Mnxat, vomitoria, 61, 318. 



Loxia, characters of young of, 529. 



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

 8; 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 salvages, 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 Lubidocerd Ddruoirtii, 301; on C Idoeou, 311; on 

 Sinynthnruxluteuis, 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 deformation of the 

 skull, 565; on "communal marriages," 071; on oxogamy, 673, 676; 

 on the Veddahs, 675; on polyandry, 677. 



Lucanidte, variability of the mandibles in the male, 33d 



