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INDEX 



Mammals, skin glands, 184 



summary of relations to young, 182 



weaning of, 191 

 Mammary glands, 183 

 Mammoth, n 

 Manatees, 240 

 Mandrills, 39 



Mansbridge, keeper at Zoological Gar- 

 dens, 209 

 Mantis, 124 

 Mares, milk of, 186 

 Marmosets, 166 

 Marsupials, 2, 179, 182 



coloration, 95 



duration of youth, 46 



eggs of, 163 



low intelligence of^ 220 

 Marsupium, 2, 179 

 Marten, 42 

 Martin, 161 

 Mastiff, 42 

 Mayflies, 55, 125 

 Meals, intervals between, 188 

 Meat, raw, use of, 191 

 Medicine, administration of, 189 

 Megapodes, 150, 159 

 Memory, 221, 237, 250, 252 

 Menageries, wild animals in, 205 

 Mendel, 74 



Mental capacity and duration of youth, 

 4i 



qualities, 229 



Metamorphosis, 17, 1 8, 19, 59, 60 

 Metchnikoff, Professor E., 9, 58, 229 

 Mice, 47, 176, 178 

 Microbes, 234 

 Microscope, 117 

 Migrations, 177 



Milk, 166, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190, 191 

 Milk-glands, 183 



Milk-sugar, 186 1 



Mimicry, 73, 74 

 Mind, 229 

 Mink, 87 

 Minnow, 130 

 Mirror and pattern, 64 

 Model to show countershading, 77 

 Models in mimicry, 73, 74 

 Mole, 175 



Mole, duck-billed, 163 



Mole-cricket, 125 



Molluscs, 26, 118, 129, 130 



Molobrus, 148 



Monkeys, and domestication, 204 



as caricatures of human beings, 253 



as egg-stealers, 148 



coloration of young, 83 



diet of, 192 



distinctive habits, 246 



fear of snakes, 200 



fur of young, 83 



gait of, 241 



milk for, 190 



milk of, 188 



mode of handling, 210 



moult, 83 



sexual colours, 69 

 Moorhen, 104, 241 

 Mortality of young, 224 

 Mosaic, body as, 68 

 Moths, 31, 55, 70, 73, 75, 153 

 Moulds, 82 

 Moult, of birds, 98-103, 108 



in birds and mammals, 83 



and coloration, 69 



of down, 107 



of mammals, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88, 96 



and plumage change, 99 



of quills, 98 



of spiders, 122 

 Mouse-deer, 93 

 Mucus, secretion of, 184 

 Mule-deer, 92 

 Miiller, F., 73 

 Mungoose, 85 

 Muntjac, 92 

 Muscle-nerve, 236 

 Museum, British, 56, 102 

 Musk-deer, 92 

 Mussel, 129 

 Mynah, 199 

 Mysis larva, 29 



NATURAL selection, 113 

 Nature, absence of purpose, 63 



prodigality of, 224 

 Nauplius figured, 29 

 Nekrophobia, 234 



