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deserting a feeble mate, 242; on three starlings frequenting the same 

 nest, 248; on the proportion of the sexes in Machetes pugnax and 

 other birds, 280; on the coloration of the Triphcence, 355; on the 

 rejection of certain catapillars by birds, 369; on sexual differences of 

 the beak in the goldfinch, 408; on a piping bullfinch, 418; on the object 

 of the nightingale's song, 418; on song-birds, 419; on the pugnacity 

 of male fine-plumaged birds, 454; on the courtship of birds, 455; on 

 the finding of new mates by Peregrine-falcons and Kestrels, 463; on 

 the bullfinch and starling, 464; on the cause of birds remaining un- 

 paired, 465; on starling and parrots living in triplets, 466; on recog- 

 nition of color by birds, 468; on hybrid birds, 470; on the selection 

 of a greenfinch by a female canary, 472; on a case of rivalry of 

 female bullfinches, 477; on the maturity of the golden-pheasant, 551. 



Weisbach, Dr., measurement of men of different races, 191; on the 

 greater variability of men than of women, 252; on the relative pro- 

 portions of the body in the sexes of different races of man, 638. 



Weismann, Prof., colors of Lyccenw, 354. 



Welcker, M., on brachycephaly and dolichocephaly, 63; on sexual 

 differences in the skull in man, 635. 



Wells, Dr., on the immunity of colored races from certain 

 poisons, 220. 



Westring, on the stridulation of males of Theridion, 309; on the 

 stridulation of Redumus personatus, 319; on the stridulation of bee- 

 tles, 343; on the stridulation of Omaloplia brunnea, 844; on the 

 stridulating organs of the Coleoptera, 345; on sounds produced by 

 Cychrus, 344. 



Westropp, H. M., on reason in a bear, 86; on the prevalence of 

 certain forms of ornamentation, 203. 



Westwood, J. O., on the classification of the Hymenoptera, 168; on 

 the Culicidae and Tabanidse, 235; on a Hymenopterous parasite with 

 a sedentary male, 251; on the proportions of the sexes in Lucanus 

 cervus and Siagonium, 286; on the absence of ocelli in female Mut- 

 illidae, 311; on the jaws of Ammophila, 312; on the copulation of 

 insects of distinct species, 312; on the male of CrcKbro cribrarius, 312; 

 on the pugnacity of male Tipulce, 317; on the stridulation of Pirates 

 stridulus, 319; on theCicadae, 319; on the stridulating organs of the 

 cricket, 322; on Ephippiger mtium, 323; on Pneumora, 325; on the 

 pugnacity of the Mantides, 327; on PlatyUemnus, 327; on difference 

 in the sexes of the Agrionidae, 328; on the pugnacity of the males of 

 a species of Tenthredinae, 330; on the pugnacity of the male stag- 

 beetle, 339; on Bledius taurus and Siagonium, 338; on lamellicorn 

 beetles, 341 ; on the coloration of Lithosia, 856. 



Whale, Sperm, battles of male, 570, 588. 



Whales, nakedness of, 63. 



Whateley, Arch., language not peculiar to man, 95; on the primi- 

 tive civilization of man, 162. 



Whewell, Prof., on maternal affection, 78. 



Whiskers, in monkeys, 171. 



White, F. B., noise produced by Hylophila, 349. 



White, Gilbert, on the proportion of the sexes in the partridge, 280; 

 on the: house-cricket, 321; on the object of the song of birds, 419; on 

 the finding of new mates by white owls, 468; on spring conveys of 

 male partridges, 468, 464. 



