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INDEX. 



Buffon, on the number of species 

 of man, 170. 



Bufo slkimmensis, 345. 



Bugs, 278. 



Buist, K., on the proportion of 

 the sexes in salmon, 244; on the 

 pugnacity of the male salmon, 

 329. 



Bulbul, pugnacity of the male, 

 357; display of under tall-coverts 

 by the male, 396. 



Bull, mode of fighting of the, 504; 

 curled frontal hair of the, 526. 



Buller, Dr., on the Huia, 204; the 

 attachment of birds, 405. 



Bullfinch, sexual differences in 

 the, 214; piping, 364; female, sing- 

 ing of the, 365; courtship of the, 

 396; widowed, finding a new 

 mate, 403; attacking a reed- 

 bunting, 407; nestling, sex ascer- 

 tained by pulling out breast- 

 feathers, 478. 



Bullfinches distinguishing per- 

 sons, 406; rivalry of female, 414. 



Bulls, two young, attacking an 

 old one, 98; wild, battles of, 497. 



Bull-trout, male, coloring of, dur- 

 ing the breeding season, 336. 



Bunting, reed, head feathers of 

 the male, 396; attacked by a bull- 

 finch, 407. 



Buntings, characters of young, 

 459. 



Buphus coromandus, sexes and 

 young of, 481; change of color in, 

 489, 490. 



Burchell, Dr., on the zebra, 540; 

 on the extravagance of a bush- 

 woman in adorning herself, 572; 

 celibacy unknown among the 

 savages of South Africa, 588; on 

 the marriage-customs of the 

 Bushwomen, 393. 



Burke, on the number of species 

 of man, 170. 



Burmese, color of the beard in, 

 554. 



Burton, Capt., on negro ideas of 

 female beauty, 574; on a univer- 

 sal ideal of beauty, 576. 



Bushmen, 61. 



Bushwoman, extravagant orna- 

 mentation of a, 572. 



Bushwomen, hair of, 163; mar- 

 riage-customs of, 593. 



Bustard, throat-pouch of the 

 male, 368; humming noise pro- 

 duced by a male, 373; Indiari, 

 ear-tufts of, 379. 



Bustards, occurrence of sexual 

 differences and of polygamy 

 among the, 215; love-gestures of 

 the male, 376; double moult in, 

 385, 386. 

 Butler, A. G., on sexual differ- 

 ences in the wings of Arlcoris 

 epitus, 277; courtship of butter- 

 flies, 304: on the coloring of tho 

 sexes in species of Thecla, 307; 



on the resemblance of Iphias 

 glaucippe to a leaf, 309; on the 

 rejection of certain moths and 

 caterpillars by lizards and frogs, 

 322. 



Butterfiy, noise produced by a, 

 304; Emperor, 304, 305; meadow 

 brown, instability of the ocel- 

 lated spots of, 422. 



Butterflies, proportion of the 

 sexes in, 246; forelegs atrophied 

 In some male, 274; sexual dif- 

 ference in the neuration of the 

 wings of, 274; pugnacity of male, 

 304; protective resemblances of 

 the lower surface of, 308; display 

 of the wings by, 311; white, 

 alighting upon bits of paper, 

 314; attracted by a dead speci- 

 men of the same species, 314; 

 courtship of, 314; male and fe- 

 male, inhabiting different sta- 

 tions, 317. 



Buxton, C, observations on ma- 

 caws, 99; on an instance of be- 

 nevolence in a parrot, 406. 



Buzzard, Indian honey-, variation 

 in the crest of, 418. 



Cabbage butterflies, 309. 



Cachalot, large head of the male, 

 498. 



Cadences, musical, perception of, 

 by animals, 564. 



Csecum, 20; large, in the early 

 progenitors of man, 156. 



Cairina moschata, pugnacity of 

 the male, 358. 



Californian Indians, decrease of, 

 254. 



Callianassa, chelaa of, figured, 263. 



Callidryas, colors of sexes, 315. 



Callionymus lyra, characters of 

 the male, 332. 



Callorhinus ursinus, relative size 

 of the sexes of, 511; courtship of, 

 518. 



Calotes maria, 353. 



nigrilabris, sexual differ- 

 ence in the color of, 353. 



Cambridge, O. Pickard, on the 

 sexes of spiders, 251; on the size 

 of male Nephila, 270. 



Camel, canine teeth of male, 498, 

 509. 



Campbell, J., on the Indian ele- 

 phant, 213; on the proportion of 

 male and female births in the 

 harems of Siam, 239. 



Campylopterus hemileucurus, 243. 



Canaries distinguishing persons, 

 406. 



Canary, polygamy of the, 215: 

 change of plumage in, after 

 moulting, 233; female, selecting 

 the best singing male, 364: ster- 

 ile hybrid, singing of a. 365; fe- 



