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INDEX. 



Suspicion, prevalence of, among ani- 

 mals, 69. 



Swallow-tail butterfly, 312. 



Swaliows deserting their young, 108, 

 113. 



Swan, black, wild, trachea of the, 

 374 ; white young of, 482 ; red beak 

 of the, 491 ; black-necked, 493. 



Swans, 491, 493; young, 481. 



Sivaysland, Ml., on the arrival of 

 migratory birds, 212. 



Swifts, migration of, 108. 



Swinhoe, R., on the common rat in 

 Formosa and China, 80 ; behaviour 

 of lizards when caught, 355 ; on 

 the sounds produced by the male 

 hoopoe, 376 ; on Dicncrus macro- 

 cercus and the spoonbill, 461 ; on 

 the young of Ardeola, 468; on the 

 habits of Turnix, 476 ; on the 

 habits of Rhynchcca hengalenm^ 

 476 ; on Orioles breeding in imma- 

 ture plumage, 484. 



Sylvia atriodpilla, young of, 487. 



cinerea, aerial love-dance of the 



male, 380 



Sympathy, 134 ; amoner animals, 102 ; 

 its supposed basis, 106. 



Sympathies, gradual widening of, 

 123. 



Syngnathous fishes, abdominal pouch 

 iu male, 163. 



Sypheotides auritus, acuminated pri- 

 maries of the male, 378 ; ear-tufts 

 of, 384 



TMb.nnidffi, habits of, 208. 



Tadorna variegata, sexes and young 

 of, 479. 



mtlpanser^ 414. 



Tahitians, 145 ; compression of the 

 nose by the, 583. 



Tail, rudimentary, occurrence of, in 

 man, 22 ; convoluted boJy in the 

 extremity of the, 23 ; absence of, 

 in man and the higher apes, 58 ; 

 variability of, in species of Macacus 

 and in baboons, 58 ; presence of, in 

 the early progenitors of man, 160; 

 length of, in pheasjints, 445, 451, 

 4."i2 ; ililiercnLx' of It-ngth cf the, 

 in the twn t.exes of birds, 451. 



Taitj Lawson, on the efTect;; of na- 



tural selection on civilised uations- 

 133. 



Tanager, scarlet, variation in the 

 male, 424. 



Tanagra (Bstiva^ age of mature plu- 

 mage in, 483. 



nffira 424; young of, 487. 



Tayiais, absence of mouth in the males 

 of some species of, 208 ; relations 

 of the sexes in, 255; dimorphic 

 males of a species of, 265. 



Tankerville, P^arl, on the battles of 

 wild bulls, 501. 



Tanysijrfera, races of, determined from 

 adult males, 468. 



Sylvia, long tail-feathers of, 451. 



Taphroderes distortus, enlarged left 

 mandible of the male, 277. 



Tapirs, longitudinal stripes of young, 

 464, 546. 



Tarsi, dilatation of front, in male 

 beetles, 275. 



Tarsius^ 156. 



Tasmania, half-castes killed by the 

 natives of, 170. 



Tasmauians, extinction of, 184. 



Taste, in the Quadrumana, 541. 



Tattooing, 178 ; universality of, 574. 



Taylor, G., on Qmscalus major, 248. 



Tea, fondness of monkeys for, 7. 



Tear-sacks, of Ruminants, 529. 



Teebay, Mr., on changes of plumage 

 in spangled Hamburgh fowls, 229. 



Teeth, rudimentary incisor, in Rumi- 

 nants, 11 ; posterior molar, in man, 

 20 ; wisdom, 20 ; diversity of, 26 ; 

 canine, in the early progenitors oi 

 man, 160; canine, of male mam- 

 mals, 502 ; in man, reduced by 

 coi'relation, 562 ; staining of the, 

 574; front, knocked out or tiled 

 by some savages, 575. 



Tegetmeier, Mr., on the transmission 

 of colours iu pigeons by one t-ex 

 alone, 231 ; numerical proportion 

 of male and female births in dogs, 

 246 ; on the abundance of male 

 pigeons, 247 ; on the wattles of 

 game-cocks, 403 ; on the courtsliip 

 of fowls, 417; on the ^oves of pigeons. 

 418; on dyed pigeons, 418; blue 

 dragon pigeons, 446. 



Tembeta, S. American ornament, 575. 



Ti'ni|K'r, in dogs and horses, inherited. 

 69. 



