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WATER-OUZEL. 



INDEX, 



WEST WOOD. 



Water-ouzel, 455 ; autumn song of 

 the, 370. 



Waterton, C, on the Bell-bird, 389 ; 

 on the pairing of a Canadi goose 

 with a Beruicle gander, 414; on 

 hares fighting, 500. 



Wattles, disadvantageous to male 

 birds in fighting', 404. 



Weale, J. Mansel, on a South African 

 caterpillar, 325, 



Wealth, influence of, 134. 



Weapons, used by man, 48 ; emploved 

 by monkeys, 81 ; orteiisive, of males, 

 210; of mammals, 501 et seq. 



Weaver-bird, 370. 



Weaver-bii'ds, rattling of the wings 

 of, 375 ; assemblies of, 405. 



Webb, Dr., on the wisdom teeth, 20. 



Wedderburn, Mr., assembly of black 

 game, 407. 



Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on the origin 

 of language, 87. 



Weevils, sexual difference in length of 

 snout in some, 208. 



Weir, Harrison, on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in pigs and 

 j'abbits, 247 ; on the sexes of young 

 pigeons, 247 ; on the songs of birds, 

 3138; on pigeons, 411; on the dis- 

 like of blue pigeons to other co- 

 loured varieties, 417 ; on the de- 

 sertion of their mates by fema.e 

 pigeons, 418. 



, J. Jenner, on the nightingale 



and blackcap, 212 ; on the relative 

 sexual maturity of male birds, 213 ; 

 on female pigeons deserting a feeblo 

 mate, 214; on three starlings fre- 

 quenting the same nest, 219 ; on 

 the proportion of the sexes in Ma- 

 chetes pugnax and other birds, 247, 

 248; on the coloration of the.7'n- 

 phcencB, 313; on the rejection of 

 certain caterpillars by birds, 326 ; 

 on sexual differences of the beak in 

 the goldfinch, 360 ; on a piping 

 bullfinch, 369 ; on the object of the 

 nightingale's song, 368; on song- 

 birds, 369; on the pugnacity of 

 male fine-plumaged birds, 400 ; on 

 the courtship of birds, 401 ; on the 

 finding of new mates by Peregrine- 

 falcons and Kestrels, 408 ; on the 

 bullfinch and starling, 408 ; on the 

 cause of birds remaining unpaired, 



409 ; on starlings and parrots living 

 in triplets, 409 ; on recognition of 

 colour by birds, 411 ; on hybrid 

 birds, 414; on the selection of a 

 greenfinch by a female canary, 415 ; 

 on a case of rivalry of female bull- 

 finches, 420 ; on the maturity ol 

 the golden-pheasant, 483. 



Weisbach, Dr.,' measurement of men 

 of different races, 167 ; on the 

 greater variability of men than of 

 women, 223; on the relative pro- 

 portions of the body in the sexes of 

 different races of man, 559. 



Weismann, Prof., colours of Lyccence, 

 312. 



Welcker, M., on brachycephaly and 

 dollchocephaly, 56 ; on sexual dif- 

 ferences in the skull in man, 557. 



Wells, Dr., on the immunity of co- 

 loured races from certain poisons, 

 193. 



Westring, on the stridulation of males 

 of T/ieridion, 273; on the stridu- 

 lation of Reduvius personatus, 281 ; 

 on the stridulation of beetles, 302 ; 

 on the stridulation of Omrtloplia 

 6j'Mttnea, 303 ; on the stridulating 

 organs of the Coieoptera, 304; 

 on sounds produced by Cychrus, 

 3(J4. 



Westropp, H. M., on reason in a bear, 

 76 ; on the prevalence of certain 

 forms of ornamentation, 179. 



Westwood, J. 0., on the classification 

 of the Hyraenoptera, 148 ; on the 

 Cuiicidae and Tabanidoj, 208; on a 

 Hymenopterous parasite with a 

 sedentary male, 221; on the pro- 

 portions of the sexes in Lucanus 

 cervus and Siajonium^ 253 ; on the 

 absence of ocelli in female mu- 

 tillidffi, 274 ; on the jaws of Am- 

 mophila, 275 ; on the copulation of 

 insects of distinct species, 275 ; on 

 the male of Crahro cribrarius, 276 

 on the pugnacity of male Jipulce^ 

 280 ; on the stridulatiou of Pirates 

 stridulus, 281 ; on the Cicadge, 281 ; 

 on the stridulating organs of the 

 crickets, 284 ; on Ephippiger citium, 

 284, 288 ; on Fneumora^ 287 ; on 

 the pugnacity of the Mantides, 289 r 

 on PlatyblemnuSy 2S9 ; on differencH 

 in the sexes of the Agrionida;, 290 ; 



