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INDEX. 



SCHOMBOBGE, 



Sailors and soidiers, difference in the 

 proportions of, 32. 



St. John, Mr., on the attachment of 

 mated birds, 4-10. 



St. Kilda, beards of the inhabitants 

 of, 560. 



Sa'mo eriox, and S. umbla, colouring 

 of the male, during the breeding 

 aei.son, 340. 



lyi aodon, 333. 



salar^ 333. 



Salmon leaping out of fresh water, 

 107 ; male, ready to breed before 

 the female, 212; proportion of 

 the sexes in, 249 ; male, pugna- 

 city of the, 332 ; male, characters 

 of, during the breeding season, 332, 

 340 ; spawning of the, 344 ; breed- 

 ing of immature male, 485. 



Salvin. 0., inheritance of mutilated 

 feathers, 60, 384, 603 ; on the 

 Humming-birds, 219, 454; on the 

 numerical proportion of the sexes 

 in Humming-birds,, 248, 487 ; on 

 Chamcepetes and Penelope, 377 ; 

 on Selasphorus platycercus, 378; 

 Pipra deliciosa, 378 ; on G/tasmo- 

 rhynchus, 389. 



Samoa Islands, beardlessness of the 

 natives of, 560, 581. 



Sand-skipper, 270. 



Sandwich Islands, vai'iation in the 

 skulls of the natives of the, 26; 

 decrease of native population, 186 ; 

 population of, 257 ; superiority of 

 the nobles in the, 587. 



Islanders, lice of, 170. 



San-Giuliauo, women of, 586. 



Santali, recent rapid increase of the, 

 45 ; Mr. Hunter on the, 192. 



Saphirina, characters of the males of, 

 271. 



Sar/iidiomis melanorwtus, characters 

 or the young, 465. 



Sars, 0., on Pontoporeia affinis, 

 266. 



Saiurnia carpini, attraction of males 

 by the female, 252. 



/o, difference of coloration in the 



Hexes uf, 316. 



SaluiniidcBj coloration of the, 314, 

 315. 



Savage, Pr., on the fighting of the 

 male gorillas. 562 ; on the habits 

 of the gorilla, 591. 



Savage and Wyman on the polyga- 

 mous habits of the gorilla, 217. 



Savages, uniformity of, exaggerated, 

 28 ; long-sighted, 33 ; rate of in- 

 crease among, usually small, 45 ; 

 retention of the prehensile power 

 of the feet by, 52 ; imitative facul- 

 ties of, 87 ; 129 ; causes of low 

 morality of, 119; tribes of, sup- 

 planting one another, 128 ; im- 

 provements in the arts among, 

 144 ; arts of, 179 ; fondness of, 

 for rough music, 380 ; attention 

 paid bv, to personal appearance, 

 574 ; relation of the sexes among, 

 591. 



Saviotti, Dr., division of malar bone, 

 39. 



Saw-fly, pugnacity of a male, 291. 



Saw-flies, proportions of the sexes in, 

 254. 



Saxicola rubicola, young of, 487. 



Scalp, motion of the, 13. 



Scent-glands in snakes, 352, 



Schaaffhausen, Prof., on the develop- 

 ment of the posterior molars in 

 different races of man, 20 ; on the 

 jaw from La Naulette, 40 ; on the 

 correlation between muscularity 

 and prominent supra-orbital ridges, 

 44 ; on the mastoid processes of 

 man, 53 ; on modifications of the 

 cranial bones, 56 ; on human sacri- 

 fices, 144 ; on the probable speedy 

 extermination of the anthropomor- 

 phous apes, 156 ; on the ancient 

 inhabitants of Europe, 181 ; on 

 the efi'ects of use and disuse of 

 parts, 197 ; on the superciliary 

 ridge in man, 556 ; on the ab- 

 sence of race-difierences in the in- 

 fant skull in man, 557 ; on ugliness, 

 584. 



Schaum, H., on the elytra of Vytiscus 

 and ffydroporus, 276. 



Schelver, on dragon-flies, 290. 



Schiodte, on the stridulation of Ifete- 

 roceras, 302. 



Schlegel, F. von, on the complexity of 

 the languages of uncivilised peo- 

 ples, 91. 



, Prof., on Tanysipttra, 468. 



Schleicher, Prof., on the origin of 

 language, 87. 



Schomburgk, Sir U., on the pugoarili 



