INDEX. 



SUPUA-CONDyLOIl). 



679 



139 ; on the higher mortality' of 

 males in Scotland, 243. 

 Starling, American field-, ijugnacity of 



male, 367. 

 ——, I'ed-wingcd, selection of a mate 



by the female, 416. 

 Starlings, three, frequenting the same 

 nest, 219, 409; new mates found 

 by, 408. 



Statues, Greek, Egyptian, Assyrian, 

 &c., contrasted, 581. 



Stature, dependence of, upon local 

 influences, 31. 



Staudinger, Dr., on breeding Lepid- 

 optera, 251; his list of Lepid- 

 optera, 252. 



Staunton, Sir G., hatred of indecency 

 a modern virtue, 1 19. 



Stealing of bright objects by birds, 

 413. 



Stebbing, T. R., on the nakedness of 

 the human body, 6u0. 



Stemmatopus, 528. 



Stendhal, see Bombet. 



Htenobotlirus pruto urn, stridulation, 

 286. 



Stephen, Mr. L., on the difference in 

 the minds of men and animals, 78 ; 

 on general concepts in animals, 

 89 ; distinction between material 

 and formal morality. 111. 



Sterility, general, of sole daughters, 

 135 ; when crossed, a distinctive 

 character of species, 166 ; under 

 changed conditions, 189, 191. 



Sterna, seasonal change of plumage in, 

 493. 



Sticklc-bapk, polygamous, 220 ; male, 

 courtship of the, 331 ; male, bril- 

 liant colburing of, during the breed- 

 ing season, 340 ; nidification of the, 

 3+5. 



Sticks used as implements and wea- 

 pons by monkeys, 81. 



Sting in bees, 208. 



Stokes, Capt., on the habits of the 

 gieat bower-bird, 381. 



Stoliozka, Dr., on colours in snakes, 

 852. 



Stonechat, young of the, 487. 



Stone implements, difficulty of making, 

 49 ; as traces of extinct tribes, 181. 



8',onei!, used by mciikeys for breaking 

 hard fruits iMvl as missiles, 5U ; 

 piUs jf. 179. 



Stork, black, sexual differences in thl 

 bronchi of the, 374; red beak of 

 the, 491. 

 Storks, 491, 493 ; sexual difference 



iu the colour of the eyes of, 425. 

 Strange, Mr., on the satin bowe: 



bird, 381. 

 Stretch, Mr., on the numii ical pro- 

 portion in the sexes of ^hickeas, 

 247. 

 Strepsiceros Imdn, horns of, 512; mark- 

 ings of, 543. 

 Stridulation, by males of T/ieridum, 

 274 ; of the Orthoptera and Homop- 

 tera discussed, 289 ; of beetles, 

 301. 

 Stripes, retained throughout groups 

 of birds, 427 ; disappearance of, in 

 adult mammals, 546. 

 Strix flammea, 408. 

 Structure, existence of unserviceable 



modifications of, 61. 

 Struggle for existence, in man, 142, 



146. 

 Struthers, Dr., on the occurrence of 

 the snpra-condyloid foramen in the 

 humerus of man, 21. 

 Stamella ludovioiana, pugnacity of tlie 



male, 367. 

 Sturnus vulgaris, 408. 

 Sub-species, 175. 

 Suffering, in strangers, indifference 01 



savages to, 117. 

 Suicide, 137 ; formerly not regarded 

 as a crime, 117 ; rarely practised 

 among the lowest savages, 117. 

 Suidse, stripes of young, 464. 

 Sulivan, Sir B. J., on .speaking of 

 parrots, 85 ; on two stallions at- 

 tacking a third, 501. 

 Sumatra, compression of the nose by 



the Malays of, 583. 

 Sumner, Archb., man alone capable of 



progressive improvement, 79. 

 Sun-birds, nidification of, 454. 

 Superstitions, 144 ; prevalence of, 



122. 

 Superstitious customs, 96. 

 Superciliary ridge in man, £56, 558, 

 Supernumerary digits, more frequent 

 in men than in women, 223 ; in- 

 heritance of, 232 ; early develop- 

 ment of, 237. 

 Supra-condyloid foiamen in the earlj 

 progenitors of man, 160. 



