788 INDEX. 



Tanager, scarlet, variation in the male, 481 . 



Tanagm cestica, age of mature plumage in, 551, 



Tanagra rubra, 481; young of, 555. 



Tanais, absence of mouth in the males of some species of. 235; rela 

 iions of the sexes in, 287; dimorphic males of a species of, 300. 



Tankerville, Earl, on the battles of wild bulls, 571. 



Tanysiptera, races of, determined from adult males, 533; tanfr 

 tipteru (tylvia, long-tailed feathers of, 513. 



Taphroderes distortus, enlarged left mandible of the male, 313. 



Tapirs, longitudinal stripes of young, 529, 623. 



Tarsi, dilatation of front, in male beetles, 312. 



Tarsias, 178. 



Tasmania, half-castes killed by the natives of, 194. 



Tasmanians, extinction of, 209. 



Taste, in the Quadrumana, 618. 



Tattooing, 203; universality of, 655. 



Taylor, G., on Quiscalus major, 281. 



Taylor, Rev. R. , on tattooing in New Zealand, 657. 



Tea, fondness of monkeys for, 7. 



Teal, constancy of, 466. 



Tear-sacs, of Ruminants, 604. 



Teebay, Mr., on changes of plumage in spangled Hamburg 

 fowls, 259. 



Teeth, rudimentary incisor, in Ruminants, 12; posterior molar iu 

 man, 22; wisdom, 22; diversity of, 30; canine, in the early pro- 

 genitors of man, 182; canine, of male mammals, 572; in man, re- 

 duced by correlation, 641; staining of the, 655; front, knocked out 

 or filed by some savages, 656. 



Tegetineier, Mr., on the transmission of colors in pigeons by one 

 sex alone, 262; numerical proportion of male and female births in 

 dogs, 278; on the abundance of male pigeons, 280; on the wattles of 

 game-cocks, 458; on the courtship of fowls, 473; on the loves of 

 pigeons, 474; on dyed pigeons, 474; blue dragon pigeons, 508. 



Tembeta, S., American ornament, 656. 



Temper, in dogs and horses, inherited, 78. 



Tench, proportion of the sexes in the, 282; brightness of male, 

 during breeding season, 386. 



Tenebrionida?, stridulation of, 342. 



Tennent, Sir J. E., on the tusks of the Ceylon elephant, 578, 587; 

 on the frequent absence of beard in the natives of Ceylon, 638; on 

 the Chinese opinion of the aspect of the Cingalese, 659. 



Tennyson, A., on the control of thought, 139. 



Tenthredinidae, proportions of the sexes in, 286; fighting habits of 

 male, 330; difference of the sexes in, 331. 



Tephrodorrds, young of, 533. 



Terai, in India, 207. 



Termites, habits of, 330. 



Terns, white, 560; and black, 561; seasonal change cf plumage 

 in, 560. 



Terror, common action of, upon the lower animals and man, 77. 



Testado elegans, 398; tcstudo nigra, 397. 



Tetrao cupido, battles of, 417; sexual difference in the vocal 

 organs of, 422; tetrao phasianellus, dances of, 431; duration of 



