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INDEX. 



Sparrows, new mates found by, 

 403. 



, sexes and young of, ill; 



learning to sing, 565. 



Spathura Underwoodi, 383. 



Spawning of fishes, 337, 340. 



Spear, used before dispersion of 

 man, 175. 



Species, causes of the advance- 

 ment of, 133; distinctive charact- 

 ers of, 162; or races of man, 164; 

 sterility and fertility of, when 

 crossed, 166; supposed, of man, 

 170; gradation of, 171; difficulty 

 of defining, 171; representative, 

 of birds, 462; of birds, compara- 

 tive differences between the 

 sexes of distinct, 463. 



Spectrum femoratum, difference 

 of color in the sexes of, 287. 



Speech, connection between the 

 brain and the faculty of, 85; 

 connection of intonation with 

 music, '564, 



"Spel" of the black-cock, 370. 



Spencer, Herbert, on the influence 

 of food on the size of the jaws, 

 32; on the dawn of intellig:ence, 

 66; on the origin of the belief in 

 spiritual agencies, 91; on the 

 origin of the moral sense, 119; 

 on music, 566. 



Spengel, disagrees with explana- 

 tion of man's hairlessness, 596. 



Sperm-whales, battle^ of male, 496. 



Sphlngidee, coloration of the, 311. 



Sphinx, Humming-bird, 313. 



, Mr. Bates on the caterpillar 



of a. 321. 



moth, musky odor of, 305. 



Spiders, 268; parental feeling in, 

 102; male, more active than fe- 

 male, 217; proportion of the 

 sexes in, 250; secondary sexual 

 characters of, 268; courtship of 

 male, 273; attracted by music, 

 269; male, small size of, 269. 



Spllosoma menthastri, rejected by 

 turkeys, 320. 



Spine, alteration of, to suit the 

 erect attitude of man, 51. 



Spirits, fondness of monkeys for, 

 7. 



Spiritual agencies, belief in, al- 

 most universal, 9i. 



Spiza cyanea and civis, 407. 



Spoonbill, 370; Chinese, change of 

 plumage in, 455. 



Spots, retained throughout groups 

 of birds, 421; disappearance of, 

 in adult mammals, 541. 



Sprengel, C. K., on the sexuality 

 of plants, 208. 



Spring-boc, horns of the, 504. 



Sproat, Mr., on the extinction of 

 savages in Vancouver Island, 

 178; on the eradication of facial 

 hair by the natives of Van- 

 couver Island, 575; on the eradi- 

 cation of the beard by the In- 

 dians of Vancouver Island, 598. 



Spurs, occurrence of, in female 

 fowls, 223, 226; development of, 

 in various species of Phasiani- 

 dse, 230; of Gallinaceous birds, 

 358. 360; development of, in fe- 

 male Gallinaceee, 443. 



Squilla, different colors of the 

 sexes of a species of, 267. 



Squirrels, battles of male, 496; Af- 

 rican, sexual differences in the 

 coloring of, 529; black, 535. 



Stag, long hairs of the throat of, 

 517; horns of the, 222, 224; battles 

 of, 497; horns of the, with 

 numerous branches, 506; bellow- 

 ing of the, 521; crest of the, 525. 



beetle, numerical proportion 



of sexes of, 249; large size of 

 male, 276; weapons of the male, 

 296. 



Stainton, H. T., on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in the 

 smaller moths, 247; habits of 

 Elachista rufocinerea, 247; on 

 the coloration of moths, 312; on 

 the rejection of Spilosoma men- 

 thastri, by turkeys, 312; on the 

 sexes of Agrotis exclamationis, 

 313. 



Staley, Bishop, mortality of in- 

 fant Maories, 182. 



Stallion, mane of the, 517. 



Stallions, two, attacking a third, 

 98; fighting, 497; small canine 

 teeth of, 510. 



Stansbury, Capt., observations on 

 pelicans, 99. 



Staphylinidffi, hornlike processes 

 in male, 296. 



Starfishes, parental feeling in, 102; 

 bright colors of some, 257. 



Stark, Dr., on the death-rate in 

 towns and rural districts, 135; 

 on the influence of marriage on 

 mortality, 136; on the higher 

 mortality of males in Scotlajid, 

 238. 



Starling, American fleld-, pugnac- 

 ity of male, 363. 



, red-winged, selection of a 



mate by the female, 410. 



Starlings, three, frequenting the 

 same nest, 215, 404; new mates 

 found by, 403. 



Statues, Greek, Egyptian, Assyri- 

 an, &c., contrasted, 576. 



Stature, dependence of, upon local 

 influences, 30. 



Staudinger, Dr., on breeding Lep- 

 idoptera, 247; his list of Lepi- 

 doptera, 248. 



Staunton, Sir G., hatred of In- 

 decency a modern virtue, 115. 



Stealing of bright objects by 

 birds, 408. 



Stebbing, T. R.. on the nakedness 

 of the human body, 694. 



Stemmatopus, 524. 



Stendhal, see Bombet. 



Stenobothrus pratorum, stridula- 

 tion, 283. 



