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INDEX. 



Fakirs, ludkm, tortures 'jiDilergone jv, 

 118. 



Falco leucocephalus^ 484. 



■ peregrinusj 408, 461. 



tinnunculuSj 408. 



FalcoQ, peregrine, new mate found 

 by, 408. 



Falconer, H., on the mode of lighting 

 of the Indian elephant, 513; on 

 canines in a female deer, 514; on 

 ffyomoschus aquaticus, 547. 



Falkland Islands, horses of, 181. 



Fallow-deer, different coloured herds 

 of; 540. 



Famines, frequency of, among savages, 

 46. 



Farr, Dr., on the structure of the 

 uterus, 38 ; on the eflects of pro- 

 fligacy, 137 ; on the influence of 

 marriage on mortality, 139, 140. 



Farrar, F. W., on the origin of lan- 

 guage, 87 ; on the crossing or blend- 

 ing of languages, 91 ; on the 

 absence of the idea of God in cer- 

 tain races of men, 93 ; on early 

 marriages of the poor, 138 ; on the 

 middle ages, 141. 



Fashions, long prevalence of, among 

 savages, 576, 584. 



Faye, Prof., on the numerical propor- 

 tion of male and female births in 

 Norway and Russia, 243 ; on the 

 greater moi'tality of male children 

 at and before birth, 243. 



Feathers, modified, producing sounds, 

 377 et seq., 450 ; elongated, in 

 male birds, 383, 403 ; racket- 

 shaped, 384 ; barbless and with 

 filamentous barbs in certain birds, 

 385 ; shedding of margins of, 393. 



Feeding, high, probable influence of, 

 in the pairing of birds of different 

 species, 415, 



Feet, thickening of the skin on the 

 soles of the, 33 ; modification of, 

 in man, 52. 



Felis canadensis, throat-ruff of, 521. 



pardalis and F. mitis^ sexual 



differences in the colouring of, 534. 



Female, behaviour of the, during 

 courtship, 222. 



— — birds, differences of, 470. 



Females, presence of rudimentary 

 male organs in, 162; prefeifnue 

 o/, for certain maleii, 214; pursuit 



of, by males, 221 ; occurrence of 

 secondary sexual characters in, 

 225 ; development of male charjo* 

 ters by, 227. 



Females and males, comparative num- 

 bers of, 213, 215; comparative mi/r- 

 tality of, while young, 216. 



Femur and tibia, proportions of, in the 

 Aymara Indians, 34. 



Fenton, Mr., decrease of Maories, 

 184 ; infanticide amongst tiie 

 Maories, 256. 



Ferguson, Mr., on the courtship of 

 fowls, 417. 



Fertility lessened under changed con- 

 ditions, 188. 



Fertilisation, phenomena of, in plants, 

 222 ; in the lower animals, 222. 



Fevers, immunity of Negroes and 

 Mulattoes from, 193. 



Fiber zib thicud, protective colouring 

 of it, 542. 



Fick, H., effect of conscription for 

 military service, 134. 



Fidelity of savages to one another, 

 118; importance of, 124. 



Field-slaves, difference of, from house- 

 slaves, 196. 



Fijians, burying their old and sick 

 .parents alive, 102; estimation of 

 the beard among the, 581 ; admi- 

 ration of, for a broad occiput, 

 583. 



Fiji Archipelago, population of the, 

 173. 



Islands, beards of the natives. 



560, 581 ; man iage-customs of the, 

 598. 



Filial affection, partly the result of 

 natural selection, 105. 



Filum terminale, 23. 



Finch, racket-shaped feathers in the 

 tail of a, 384. 



Finches, spring cliange of colour in, 

 393; British, females of the, 4(;n. 



Fingers, partially coherent, in spi'ciii.s 

 of HylobateS, 51. 



Finlayson, on the Cochin Chiiie^e^ 

 578. 



Fire, use of, 49, 145, 180. 



Fischer, on the pugnacity of the m:ilc 

 of Lethrus cephalofes, 300. 



Fish, eagerness of male, 221; i>ro|.mr- 

 tinn of the sexe.s in, 219; soiindt 

 produced by, 347. 



