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INDEX. 



moulting of ^n^/ms, 392; on the 

 moulting of bustards, plovers, and 

 Gallus hankiva, 302; on the Indian 

 honey-buzzard, 424 \ on sexual dif- 

 ferences in the colour of the eye<j 

 of hornbills, 425 ; on Oriolus me- 

 lanooephalusj 460 ; on Pal(Bornis 

 javanicitSy 461; on the genus Ar^ 

 dettaj4:Ql ; on the peregrine falcon, 

 461 ; on young female birds acquir- 

 ing male characters, 46 1 ; on the 

 immature plumage of birds, 465 ; 

 on representative species of birds, 

 468 ; on the young of 'fumix, 476 ; 

 on anomalous young of Lannts 

 rufus and Coli/mbus glaeialis, 482 ; 

 on the sexes and young of the spar- 

 rows, 483 ; on dimorphism m some 

 herons, 484; on the ascertainment 

 of the sex of nestling bullfinches 

 by pulling out breast-feathers, 484 ; 

 on orioles breeding in immature 

 plumage, 484 ; on the sexes and 

 young of Buphus and Anastomus, 

 486 ; on the young of the black- 

 cap and blackbird, 487 ; on the 

 young of the stonechat, 487; on 

 the white plumage of AnastomuSj 

 493 ; on the horns of Bovine ani- 

 mals, 505 ; on the horns of Antiloj e 

 bezoartica, 507 ; on the Inode of 

 fighting of Ovis cyoloceroSf 508 ; 

 on the voice of the Gibbons, 527 ; 

 on the crest of the male wild goat, 

 531 ; on the colours of Portax 

 picta, 535 ; on the colours of Anti- 

 lope bezoartica, 536 ; on the colour 

 of' the Axis deer, 536 ; on sexual 

 difference of colour in Hylohates 

 hoolook, 637 ; on the hog-deer, 546 ; 

 on the beard and whiskers in a 

 monkey becoming white with age, 

 559. 



Boar, wild, polygamous in India, 217 ; 

 use of the tusks bj the, 513 ; fight- 

 ing of, 518. 



Boardman, Mr., Albino birds in U. S., 

 419. 



B-oitard and Corbi^, MM,, on the 

 transmission of sexual peculiarities 

 in pigeons, 230; on the antipathy 

 shewn by some female pigeons to 

 certain males, 418. 



B«ld, Mr., on the singing of a eterile 

 hybrid canary, 369. 



Bombet, on the variability of thp 

 standard of beauty in Europe, 596, 



Borr^s, difference of the sexes in, 

 29 J. 



Bombycidse, coloration of, 313; pair- 

 ing of the, 318 ; colours of, 318. 



BomiyjcUli carolmensis, red append- 

 ages of, 461. 



Bombyx cynthia, 278 ; proportion o( 

 the sexes in, 250, 253 ; pairing of, 

 318. 



mori, difference of size of the 



male and female cocoons of, 278; 

 pairing of, 318. 



Pernyiy proportion of sexes of, 



253. 



Yamamai^ 278 ; M. Personnat on, 



251 ; proportion of sexes of, 253. 



Bonaparte, C. L., on the call-notes of 



the wild turkey, 375. 

 Bond, F., on the rinding of new mates 



by crows, 408. 

 Bone, implements of, skill displayed 



in making, 49. 

 Boner, C, on the transfer of male 



characters to an old female chamois, 



504; on the habits of stags, 515 ; 



on the pairing of red deer, 522. 

 Bones, increase of, in length and 



thickness, when carrying a greater 



weight, 32. 

 Bonizzi, P., difference of colour in 



sexes of pigeons, 230. 

 Bonnet monkey, 151. 

 Bonwick, J., extinction of Tasma 



nians, 183, 184. 

 Boomerang, 145. 

 Boreus hyemalis, scarcity of the male, 



254. 

 Bory St. Vincent, on the number of 



species of man, 174 ; on the coloun 



of Lahrus pavo, 342. 

 Bos etntscusy 505. 



gaurus, horns of, 505. 



moschatus, 529. 



primigeniuSj 501. 



• sondaiauSj horns of, 505 ; colouri 



of, 536. 

 Botocudos, 144; irode of life of, 197 ; 



disfigurement of the ears and lower 



lip of the, 575. 

 Boucher de Perthes, J. C. de, on the 



antiquity of man, 2. 

 Bourbon, proportion of the sexes In f 



S{)ecies of Papilio from, 260. 



