INDEX. 



WOODPUCKERS. 



687 



on the pugnacity of tha males of a 

 species of Tenthredinic, 291 ; oa 

 the pugnacity of the male stag- 

 beetle, 299 ; on Bledlus taurus and 

 Siagonium, 299 ; on laraellioorn 

 beetles, 301 ; on the coloration of 

 fiit/iosia, 314. 



Whale, Sperm-, battles of male, 500. 



Whales, nakedness of, 56. 



Whately, Archb., language not pe- 

 culiar to man, 84 ; on the primitive 

 civilisation of man, 143. 



Whewell, Prof, on maternal affection, 

 70. 



iVhiskers, in monkeys, 150. 



White, K. B., loise ;M'oduced by //j/c- 

 phila, 308. 



, Gilbert, on the proportion of 



the sexes in the partridge, 248 ; on 

 the house-cricket, 283 ; on the ob- 

 ject of the song of birds, 369; on 

 the finding of new mates by white 

 owls, 408 ;ou spring coveys of miile 

 partridges, 409. 



WThiteuess, a sexual ornament in 

 some birds, 494; of mammals iii- 

 habitiag snowy countries, 542. 



White-throat, aiirial love-dance of the 

 male, 380. 



Whitney, I'rof., on the development 

 of language, 8B ; language not in- 

 dispensable for thought, 88. 



Widow-bird, polygamous, 219 ; breed- 

 ing plumage of the male, 392, 

 403 ; female, rejecting tlie un- 

 adorned male, 419. 



Widows and widowers, mortality of, 

 140. 



Wigeon, pairing with a pintail duck, 

 414. 



Wilckens, Dr., on the modification of 

 domestic animals in mountainous 

 regions, 35 ; on ' a numerical re- 

 lation between the hairs and excre- 

 tory poi-es in sheep, 198. 



Wilder, Dr. Burt, on the greater fre- 

 quency of supernumei'ary digits in 

 men than in women, 223. 



Williams, on the marriage-customs ot 

 the Fijians, 599. 



Wilson, Dr., on the conical heads of 

 the natives of North- Western Ame- 

 rica, 583 ; on the Kijians, 583 ; on 

 the persistence of the fashion of 

 compressing the skull, 584. 



Wing-spurs, 449. 



Wings, differences of, in the two sexes 

 of butterflies and Hymenoptera, 

 277 ; play of, in the courtship 01 

 birds, 401. 



Winter, change of colour of mam- 

 mals in, 542. 



Witchcraft, 96. 



Wives, traces cf ihe forcible capturt 

 of, 144. 



Wolf, winter change of the, 542. 



Wolff, on the variability of the vis- 

 cera in man, 27. 



Wollaston, T. V., on Earygnathus, 

 277 ; on musical Curculionidac, 301 ; 

 on the stndulation of Acalles, 306. 



Wolves-learning to bark from dogs, 

 73 ; hunting in packs, 101. 



, black, 540. 



Wombat, black varieties of the, 539. 



Women distinguished from men by 

 male monkeys, 8 ; preponderance of, 

 in numbers, 244 ; selection of, for 

 beauty, 397 ; effects of selection 

 of, in accordance with dift'ei'en' 

 standards of beauty, 584; practice 

 of capturing, 589, 592 ; early be- 

 trothals and slavery of, 593 ; free- 

 dom of selection by, in savage 

 tribes, 598. 



Wonder, manifestations of, by ani- 

 mals, 71. 



Wonfor, Mr., on sexual peculiarities 

 in the wings of butterflies, 277. 



Wood, J., on muscular variations in 

 man, 26, 41, 43 ; on the greatei 

 variability of the muscles in men 

 than in women, 223. 



, T. W., on the colouring of the 



orange-tip butterfly, 313; on the 

 habits of the Saturniidse, 315; 

 quarrels of cham^cleons, 357 ; on 

 the habits of Mcnura Alberti, 37 1 ; 

 on Tetrao cupido, 37 1 ; on the dis- 

 play of plumage by male pheasants, 

 396 ; on the ocellated spots of the 

 Argus pheasant, 441 ; on the habits 

 of the female cassow.ary, 478. 



Woodcock, coloration of the, 491. 



Woodpecker, selection of a mate by 

 the female, 416. 



Woodpeckers, 371 ; tapping of, 376 ; 

 colours and cidification of the, 455, 

 458, 489 ; characters of young, 465, 

 47+, 481. 



