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HIBBEBT. 



INDEX. 



HOMOLOGOUS. 



i. 251 ; degeneration of silk fowls, i. 

 255 ; partial sterility of hen-like 

 male fowls, i. 265 ; production of 

 tailed chickens by rumpless fowls, i. 

 271 ; on taming and rearing wild 

 ducks, i. 292, ii. 219, 250 ; conditions 

 of inheritance in laced Sebright ban- 

 tams, i. 465 ; reversion in rumpless 

 fowls, ii. 4 ; reversion in fowls by 

 age, ii. 13 ; hybrids of pheasant and 

 fowl, ii. 19, 43; assumption of male 

 characters by female pheasants, ii. 

 26 ; development of latent characters 

 in a barren bantam h«n, ii. 29 ; 

 mongrels from the silk-fowl, ii. 42 ; 

 effects of close inter-breeding on fowls, 

 ii. 105, 106 ; on feather-legged 

 bantams, ii. 314. 



Hibbert, Mr., on the pigs of the Shet- 

 land Islands, i. 74. 



Hibiscus. See Paritium. 



Highland cattle, descended from Bos 

 lon<jifrons, i. 85. 



Hildebrand, Dr., on graft-hybrids 

 with the potato, i. 420 ; on the in- 

 fluence of pollen on the mother-plant, 

 i. 430 ; on the fertilisation of Orchidem, 

 i. 434, 435 ; occasional necessary cross- 

 ing of plants, ii. 68 ; on seeds not 

 fitted for distribution, i. 330 ; potato- 

 grafting, i. 420 ; crossing of varieties, 

 ii. 83 ; on Primula sinensis and Oxalis 

 rosea, ii. 113; on Corydalis cava, ii: 

 113,114. 



Hill, R., on the Alco, i. 32 ; feral 

 rabbits in Jamaica, i. 116 ; feral pea- 

 cocks in Jamaica, i. 200 ; variation of 

 the Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 310; 

 sterility of tamed birds in Jamaica, 

 ii. 138, 140. 



Himalaya, range of gallinaceous birds 

 in the, i. 249. 



Himalayan rabbit, i. 112, 113-115; 

 skull of, i. 125. 



Himalayan sheep, i. 98. 



Hindmarsh, Mr., on Chillingham cattle, 

 i. 88. 



" Hinkel-Taube," i. 149, 150. 



Hinny and mule, difference of, ii. 43. 



Hipparion, anomalous resemblance to, in 

 horses, i. 52. 



Hippeastrum, hybrids of, ii. 120, 121. 



Hive-bees, ancient domestication of, i. 

 313 ; breeds of, i. 314 ; smaller when 



produced in old combs, ibid. ; varia- 

 bility in, i. 315 ; crossing of Ligurian 

 and common, ibid. 



Hobbs, Fisher, on interbreeding pigs, ii. 

 100. 



" Hocker-Taube," i. 148. 



Hodgkin, Dr., on the attraction of foxes 

 by a female Dingo, i. 32 ; origin of 

 the Newfoundland dog, i. 44 ; trans- 

 mission of a peculiar lock of hair, i. 

 449. 



Hodgson, Mr., domestication of C'anis 

 primwvus, i. 27 ; development of a 

 fifth digit in Thibet mastiffs, i. 37 ; 

 number of ribs in humped cattle, i. 

 83 ; on the sheep of the Himalaya, 

 i. 98 ; presence of four mamma in 

 sheep, i. 99 ; arched nose in sheep, 

 ibid. ; measurements of the intestines 

 of goats, i. 106 ; presence of inter- 

 digital pits in goats, ibid. ; disuse a 

 cause of drooping ears, ii. 291. 



Hofacker, persistency of colour in 

 horses, i. 53, i. 464 ; production of 

 dun horses from parents of different 

 colours, i. 62 ; inheritance of peculi- 

 arities in handwriting, i. 450 ; heredity 

 in a one-horned stag, i. 456 ; on 

 consanguineous marriages, ii. 103. 



Hoffman, Prof., on Eap/ianus, i. 345. 



Hog, Red River, ii. 133. 



Hogg, Mr., retardation of breeding in 

 cows by hard living, ii. 90. 



Holland, Sir H., necessity of in- 

 heritance, i. 446 ; on hereditary 

 diseases, i 451 ; hereditary pecu- 

 liarity in the eyelid, i. 452 ; morbid 

 uniformity in the same family, i. 459 ; 

 transmission of hydrocele through 

 the female, ii. 27 ; inheritance of 

 habits and tricks, ii. 389. 



Holly, varieties of the, i. 3S4, 385 ; 

 bud-reversion in, i. 409 ; yellow- 

 berried, i. 462, ii. 216. 



Hollyhock, bud-variation in, i. 402 ; 

 non-crossing of double varieties of, 

 ii. 85 ; tender variety of the, ii. 

 301. 



Homer, notice of geese, i. 302 ; breed- 

 ing of the horses of iEneas, ii. 186. 



Homologous parts, correlated varia- 

 bility of, ii. 314-325, 346, 347 , 

 fusion of, ii. 333 ; affinity of, ii. 

 333, 334. 



