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INDEX. 



Natural and sexual selection con- 

 trasted, 221. 



Naulette, jaw from, large size of 

 the canines in, 39. 



Neanderthal skull, capacity of 

 the, 53. ^ . 



Neck, proportion of, m soldiers 

 and sailors, 31. 



Necrophorus, stridulation of, 299, 

 301. 



Nectarinla, young of, 468. 



Nectarinise, moulting o£ the, 392; 

 nidiflcation of, 462. 



Negro, resemblance of a, to Euro- 

 peans, in mental characters, 174. 



Negro-women, their kindness to 

 Mungo Park, 114. 



Negroes, Caucasian features m, 

 163; character of, 164; lice of, 166; 

 fertility of, when crossed with 

 other races, 167; blackness of, 

 166, 169; variability of, 170, 171; 

 immunity of, from yellow fever, 

 188; difference of, from Ameri- 

 cans, 192; disfigurements of the, 

 536; color of new-born children 

 of 552; comparative beardless- 

 ness of, 555; readily become 

 musicians, 565; appreciation of 

 beauty of their women by, 572; 

 573; idea of beauty among, 576; 

 compression of the nose by 

 some, 577. 



Nemertians, colors of, 261. 



Neolithic period, 141. 



Neomorpha, sexual difference or 

 the beak in, 356. 



Nephila, size of male, 270. 



Nests, made by fishes, 341; decor- 

 ation of, by Humming-birds, 

 408. 



Neumeister, on a change of color 

 in pigeons after several moult- 

 ings, 233. 



Neuration, difference of, m the 

 two sexes of some butterflies 

 and hymenoptera, 274. 



Neuroptera, 250, 287. 



Neurothemis, dimorphism in, 288. 



New Zealand, expectation by the 

 natives of, of their extinction, 

 186; practice of tattooing in, 571; 

 aversion of natives of, to hairs 

 on the face, 575; pretty girls en- 

 grossed by the chiefs in, 590. 



Newton, A., on the throat-pouch 

 of the male bustard, 368; on the 

 difference between the females 

 of two species of Oxynotus, 464; 

 on the habits of the Phalarope, 

 dotterel, and godwit, 472. 



Newts, 344. 



Nicholson, Dr. on the non-immu- 

 nity of dark Europeans from 

 yellow fever, 190. 



Nictitating membrane, 16, 156. 



Nidiflcation, of fishes, 340; rela- 

 tion of, to color, 447, 450; of Brit- 

 ish birds, 448. 



Night-heron, cries of the, 363. 



Nightingale, arrival of the male 

 before the female, 208; object of 

 the song of the, 364. 



Nightingales, new mates found by 

 403. 



Nightjar, selection of a mate by 

 the female, 410; Australian, 

 sexes of, 473; coloration of the, 

 486. 



Nightjars, noise made by some 

 male, with their wings, 371; 

 elongated feathers in, 379, 397. 



Nilghau, sexual differences of col- 

 or in the, 530. 



Nilsson, Prof., on the resem- 

 blance of stone arrow-heads 

 from various places, 174; on the 

 development of the horns in the 

 reindeer, 229. 



Nipples, absence of, in Monotre- 

 mata, 158. 



Nitsche, Dr., ear of foetal orang, 

 16. 



Nitzsch, C. L., on the down of 

 birds, 385. 



Noctuse, brightly-colored be- 

 neath, 312. 



Noctuidae, coloration of, 310. 



Nomadic habits, unfavorable to 

 human progress, 130. 



Nordmann, A., on Tetrao urogal- 

 loides, 400. 



Norfolk island, half-breeds on, 186. 



Norway, numerical proportion of 

 male and female births in, 237. 



Nose, resemblance of, in man and 

 the apes, 149; piercing and orna- 

 mentation of the, 570; very flat, 

 not admired in negroes, 577; flat- 

 tening of the, 577. 



Nott and Gliddon, on the features 

 of Barneses II., 164; on the fea- 

 tures of Amunoph III., 164; on 

 skulls from Brazilian caves, 165; 

 on the immunity of negroes and 

 mulattoes from yellow fever, 188: 

 on the deformation of the skull 

 among American tribes, 577. 



Novara, voyage of the, suicide in 

 New Zealand, 113. 



Nudibranch Mollusca, bright col- 

 ors of, 260. 



Numerals, Roman, 140. 



Nunemaya, natives of, bearded, 

 555. 



Nut-hatch of Japan, intelligence 

 of, 405. 



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Obedience, value of, 127. 

 Observation, powers of, possessed 



by birds, 406. 

 Occupations, sometimes a cause 



of diminished stature, 30; effect 



of, upon the proportions of the 



body, 30. 

 Ocelli, absence of, in female Mut- 



illidae, 272. 



