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INDEX. 



SooJsir, Prof., on the afTiiiity of the 

 laucelet to the ascidiaas, 159, 



Groosander, young of, 467. 



Groose, Antarctic, colours of the, 492. 



, Canada, pairing with a Ber- 



nicle gander, 414. 



, Chinese, knob on the oeak of 



the, 426. 

 > Egyptian, 364. 



■ , Sebastopol, plumage of, 385. 



, Snow-, whiteness of the, 492. 



, Spur-winged, 364. 



Gorilla, 561 ; semi-erect attitude of 

 the, 52 ; mastoid processes of the, 

 53 ; direction of the hair on the 

 arms of the, 151; manner of sit- 

 ting, 151 ; supposed to be a kind of 

 mandrill, 177 ; polygamy of the 217, 

 590, 591 ; voice of the, 527 ; cra- 

 nium of, 553 ; fighting of male, 

 562. 



Gosse, P. H,, on the pugnacity of the 

 male Humming-bird, 360. 



, M., on the inheritance of artifi- 

 cial modifications of the skull, 603. 



Gould, B. A., on variation in the 

 length of the legs in man, 26 ; 

 measurements of American soldiers, 

 30, 32 ; on the proportions of the 

 body and capacity of the lungs in 

 different races of men, 167 ; on the 

 the inferior vitality of mulattoes, 

 171. 

 — - , J,, on migration of swifts, 108 ; 

 on the arrival of male snipes before 

 the females, 212; on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in birds, 

 247 ; on Neomo'-pha Grypus, 359 ; 

 on the species of Eustephanus, 359 ; 

 on the Australian musk-duck, 359 ; 

 on the relative size of the sexes in 

 Briziura lobata and Cincloramphus 

 cruralis^ 362 ; on Lohivanellus loha- 

 tus, 366 ; on the habits of Menura 

 Aiberti, 371 ; on the rarity of song 

 in brilliant birds, 371; on Sela-'- 

 phoras platycercus, 378 ; on the 

 Bower-birds, 381, 406; on the 

 ornamental plumage of the Hum- 

 ming-birds, 387 ; on the moulting 

 of the ptarmigan, 392 ; on the dis- 

 play of plumage by the male Hum- 

 ming-birds, 394 ; on the shyness of 

 tciorned male birds, 403 ; on the 

 (ir"or;itio(i of the bowers of Bower- 



birds, 413^ on the decoration ol 

 their nests by Humming-birds. 413 ; 

 on variation in the gbuus- Cynon- 

 t'lUSj 423 ; on the colour of thp 

 thighs in a male parakeet, 424 ; on 

 Urostiote Benjamini, 442, 443 ; on 

 the nidification of the Orioles, 454 • 

 on obscurely-coloured birds build 

 ing concealed nests, 454; on trogoaa 

 and kingfishers, 456 ; on Austra- 

 lian parrots, 458 ; on Australian 

 pigeons, 458 ; on the moulting of 

 the ptarmigan, 462 ; on the imma- 

 ture plumage of birds, 466 et seq.; 

 on the Australian species of TurnUs^ 

 473; on the young oi A'ithurus poly- 

 tmus, 487 ; on the colours of the bill.« 

 of toucans, 491 ; on the relative 

 size of the sexes in the marsupials 

 of Australia, 515; on the colours 

 of the Marsupials, 533. 

 Goureaux, on the stridulation of Mu- 



tilla europcBaj 293. 

 Gout, sexually transmitted, 237. 

 Graba, on the Pied Ravens of the 

 Feroe Islands, 424; variety of the 

 Guillemot, 424. 

 Gradation of secondary sexual cha- 

 racters in birds, 430. 

 Grallatores, absence of secondary 

 sexual characters in, 219; d^^uble 

 moult in some, 390. 

 Grallina, nidification of, 454. 

 Grasshoppers, stridulation of the, 286. 

 Gratiolet, Prof., on the anthropo- 

 morphous apes, 154 ; on the evo- 

 lution of the anthropomorphous 

 apes, 177 ; on the difference in the 

 development of the brains of apes 

 and of man, 203. 

 Gray, Asa, on the gradation of species 

 among the Compositae, 175. 



, J. E., on the caudal vertebras 



of monkeys, 58 ; on the presence 



of rudiments of horns in the female 



of Cervulus moschatuSj 504; on the 



horns of goats and sheep, 505 ; on 



the beard of the ibex, 531 ; on the 



Berbura gost, 533; on sexual dif- 



I ferences in the coloration of Rodents, 



I 534 ; ornaments of male sloth, 534 



on the colours of the Elands, 535 



I on the Sing-sing antelope, 536 



I on the colours of guats. 536 ; on thf 



I hos-deer, i)4^6. 



