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INDEX. 



Dasychira pudibunda. sexual dif- 

 ference of color in, 312. 



Davis, A, H., on the pugnacity of 

 the male stag-beetle, 297. 



, J. B., on the capacity of 



the skull in various races of 

 men, 52; on the beards of the 

 Polynesians, 555. 



Death-rate higher in towns than 

 in rural districts, 135. 



Death-tick, 303. 



De CandoUe, Alph., on a case of 

 inherited power of moving the 

 scalp, 13. 



Declensions, origin of, 89. 



Decoration in birds, 377. 



Dectious, 282. 



Deer, 228: development of the 

 horns in, 228; spots of young, 

 458, 541; horns of, 499, 501; use of 

 horns of, 505, 513; horns of a, in 

 course of modification, 508; size 

 of the horns of, 511; female, pair- 

 ing with one male, whilst others 

 are fighting for her, 518; male, 

 attracted by the voice of the fe- 

 male, 522; male, odor emitted by, 

 525. 



, Axis, sexual difference in 



the color of the, 532. 



fallow, different colored 



herds of, 535. 



, Mantchurian, 541. 



, Virginian, 541; color of the, 



not affected by castration, 530; 



colors of, 531. 

 Deerhound, Scotch, greater size of 



the male, 232, 512. 

 Defensive organs of mammals, 



513. 



De Geer, C, on a female spider 



destroying a male, 269. 

 Dekay, Dr., on the bladder-nose 



seal, 524. 

 Delorenzi, G., division of malar 



bone, 37. 

 Demerara, yellow fever in, 189. 

 Dendrocygna, 459. 

 Dendrophila frontalis, young of, 



483. 

 Denison, Sir W., manner of rid- 

 ding themselves of vermin 

 among the Australians, 55; ex- 

 tinction of Tasmanians, 179. 

 Denny, H., on the lice of domestic 



animals, 165. 

 Dermestes murinus, stridulation 



of, 299. 

 Descent traced through the 



mother alone, 583. 

 Deserts, protective coloring of 



animals inhabiting, 485. 

 Desmarest, on the absence of 

 suborbital pits in Antilope sub- 

 gutturosa, 525; on the whiskers 

 of Macacus, 527; on the color of 

 the opossum, 530; on the colors 

 of the sexes of Mus minutus, 

 529; on the coloring of the oce- 

 lot, 529; on the colors of seals, 



530; on Antilope caama, 531; en 

 the colors of goats, 531; on sex- 

 ual difference of color in Ateles 

 marginatus, 532; on the mandrill 

 534; on Macacus eynomolgus' 

 553. 



Desmoulins, on the number of 

 species of man, 170; on the 

 musk-deer, 625. 



Desor, on the imitation of man bv 

 monkeys, 71. 



Despine, P., on criminals destitute 

 of conscience, 112. 



Development, embryonic, of man 

 9, 11; correlated, 420. 



Devil, not believed in by the Pue- 

 gians, 92. 



Devil-crab, 265. 



I^evonian, fossil insect from the, 

 186. 



Dewlaps, of cattle and antelopes, 



Diadema, sexual differences of 



colormg in the species of, 306 

 Diamond-beetles, bright colors of. 



Diastema, occurrence of, in man, 



DiastylidEO, proportion of the 



sexes in, 251. 

 Dicrurus, racket-shaped feathers 



m, 379; nidiflcation of, 447. 

 macrocercus, change of plu- 

 mage in, 454. 

 Didelphis opossum, sexual differ- 

 ence in the color of, 529. 

 Differences, comparative, between 

 different species of birds of the 

 same sex, 464. 

 Digits, supernumerary, more fre- 

 quent in men than in women, 

 219; supernumerary, inheritance 

 of, 227; supernumerary, early de- 

 velopment of, 232. 

 Dimorphism in females of water- 

 beetles, 273; in Neurothemis and 

 Agrlon, 288. 

 Diodorus, on the absence of beard 



in the natives of Ceylon, 55.5. 

 Dipelicus Cantori, sexual differ- 

 ences of, 294. 

 Diplopoda, prehensile limbs of the 



male, 271. 

 Dipsas cynodon, sexual difference 



in the color of, 347. 

 Diptera, 278. 

 Disease, generated by the contact 



of distinct peoples, 178. 

 Diseases common to man and the 

 lower animals, 7; difference of 

 liability to, in different races of 

 men, 163; new, effects of, upon 

 savages, 178; sexually limited, 

 232. 

 Display, coloration of Lepidoptera 

 for, 31; of plumage by male 

 birds, 390, 396. 

 Distribution, wide, of man, 46; 

 geographical, as evidence of spe- 

 cific distinctness in man, 165. 

 Disuse, effects of, in producing ru» 



