INDEX. 761 



dragon flies, 316; on dragon flies, 329; on dimorphism in Agrion, 

 329; on the want of pugnacity in male dragon flies, 330; color of 

 ghost-moth in the Shetland Islands, 359. 



M'Lennau, Mr., on infanticide, 52, 675; on the origin of the belief 

 in spiritual agencies, 106; on the prevalence of licentiousness among 

 savages, 134, 671; on the primitive barbarism of civilized nations, 

 162; on traces of the custom of the forcible capture of wives, 163, 

 676; on polyandry, 677. 



Macnamara, Mr., susceptibility of Andaman Islanders and Nepalese 

 to change, 214. 



McNeill, Mr., on the use of the antlers of deer, 582; on the Scotch 

 deerhound. 589; on the long hairs on the throat of the stag, 595; on 

 the bellowing of stags, 600. 



Macropus, courtship of, 387. 



Macrorhinus proboscideus, structure of the nose of, 603. 



Magpie, power of speech of, 101; vocal organs of the, 421; nuptial 

 assemblies of, 461; new mates found by, 462; stealing bright objects, 

 469; young of the, 548; coloration of the, 562. 



Ma'illard, M., on the proportion of the sexes in a species of Papilio 

 from Bourbon, 283; 



Maine, Sir Henry, on the absorption of one tribe by another, 145; 

 a desire for improvement not general, 150. 



Major, Dr. C. Forsytb, on fossil Italian apes, 177; skull of Bos 

 etruscus, 576; tusks of miocene pigs, 593. 



Makalolo, perforation of the upper lip by the, 657. 



Malar bone, abnormal division of, in man, 44. 



Malay, Archipelago, marriage-customs of the savages of the, 683. 



Malays, line of separation between the Papuans and the, 192; gen- 

 eral beardlessness of the, 6^9; staining of the teeth among, 655; 

 aversion of some, to hairs on the face, 662; and Papuans, contrasted 

 characters of, 191. 



Male animals, struggles of, for the possession of the females, 239, 

 241; eagerness of, in courtship, 250, 251; generally more modified 

 than female, 250, 252; differ in the same way from females and 

 young, 263; characters, developed in females, 257; transfer of, to 

 female birds, 537; sedentary, of a hymenopterous parasite, 251, 



Malefactors, 155. 



Males, presence of rudimentary female organs in, 184; and females, 

 comparative numbers of, 241, 244 ; comparative mortality of, while 

 young, 244. 



Malherbe, on the woodpeckers, 521. 



MaLlotus Peronii,316; mllosus, 375. 



Mai thus, T., on the' rate of increase of population, 50, 51, 52. 



Malurida?, nidification of the, 517. 



Malurus, young of, 553. 



Mammae, *235; rudimentary, in male mammals, 12, 26, 183, 184, 

 185; supernumerary, in women, 41; of male human subject, 42. 



Mammalia, Prof.' Owen's classification of, 168; genealogy of the. 

 180. 



Mammals, recent and tertiary, comparison of cranial capacity of, 

 62; nipples of, 184; pursuit of female, by the males, 250; secondary 

 sexual characters of, 570; weapons of, 571; relative size of the sexes 

 of, 588; parallelism of, with birds in secondary sexual characters, 

 618; voices of, used especially during the breeding season, 647. 



