INDEX 



809 



Boar, wild, polygamous in India, 288; 

 use of the tusks by the, 663 ; fight- 

 ing of, 669. 



Boardman, Mr., Albino birds in XT. S., 

 541. 



Boitard and Corbi^, MM., on the trans- 

 mission of sexual peculiarities in 

 pigeons, 303 ; on the antipathy 

 shown by some female pigeons to 

 certain males, 539-540. 



Bold, Mr., on the singing of a sterile 

 hybrid canary, 419. 



Bombet, on the variability of the stand- 

 ard of beauty in Europe, 167. 



Bombus, difference of the sexes in, 384. 



Bombycldse, coloration of, 409 ; pairing 

 of the, 415 ; colors of, 415. 



Bombycilla carolinensis, red append- 

 ages of, 594. 



Bombyx cynthia, 366 ; proportion of the 

 sexes in, 330, 334; pairing of, 415. 



mori, difference of size of the 



male and female cocoons of, 366; 

 pairing of, 415. 



Pemyi, proportion of sexes of, 



334. 



Tamamai, 366; M. Personnat on, 



331 ; proportion of sexes of, 334. 



Bonaparte, 0. L., on the call-notes of 

 the wild turliey, 486. 



Bond, P., on the finding of new mates 

 by crows, 526. 



Bone, implements of, slsill displayed in 

 making, 14. 



Boner, C, on the transfer of male char- 

 acters to an old female chamois, 651 ; 

 on the habits of stags, 666; on the 

 pairing of red deer, 614. 



Bones, increase of, in length and thick- 

 ness, when carrying a greater weight, 

 54. 



Bonizzi, P., difference of color in sexes 

 of pigeons, 303. 



Bonnet monkey, 202. 



Bon wick, J., extinction of Tasmanians, 

 244-245. 



Boomerang, 194. 



Boreus hyemalis, scarcity of the male, 

 331. 



Bory St. Vincent, on the number of 

 species of man, 232; on the colors 

 of Labrus pavo, 445. 



Bos etruscus, 663. 



— — gaurus, horns of, 663. 



— — moschatuB, 684. 



— — primigenius, 647. 



Bos sondaious, horns of, 653; colors 

 of, 692. 



Botocudoa, 193; mode of life of, 261; 

 disfigurement of the ears and lower 

 lip of the, 140-141. 



Boucher de Perthes, J. 0. de, on the 

 antiquity of man, 18. 



Bourbon, proportion of the sexes in a 

 species of Papilio from, 330. 



Bourien, on the marriage-customs of 

 the savages of the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, 170. 



Bovidse, dewlaps of, 681. 



Bower-birds, 524; habits of the, 493; 

 ornamented playing-places of, 128, 

 584. 



Bows, use of, 238. 



Braehycephaiic structure, possible ex- 

 planation of, 82-83. 



Brachyura, 355. 



Brachyurus calvus, scarlet face of. 111. 



Bradley, Mr., abductor ossis metatarsi 

 quinti in man, 65. 



Brain, of man, agreement of the, with 

 that of lower animals, 22 ; convolu- 

 tions of, in the human foetus, 28; 

 influence of development of mental 

 faculties upon the size of the, 80 ; 

 influence of the development of, on 

 the spinal column and skull, 82; 

 larger in some existing mammals 

 tlian in their tertiary prototypes, 

 114; relation of the development 

 of the, to the progress of language, 

 123; disease of the, affecting speech, 

 123-124; difference in the convolu- 

 tions of, in different races of men, 

 224; supplement on, by Prof. Hux- 

 ley, 263 ; development of the gyri 

 and sulci, 269-210. 



Brakenridge, Dr., on the influence of 

 climate, 53. 



Brandt, A., on hairy men, 38. 



Braubach, Prof., on the quasi-religious 

 feeling of a dog toward his master, 

 133; on the self-restraint of dogs, 

 142. 



Brauer, P., on dimorphism in Neuro- 

 themis, 381. 



Brazil, skulls found in caves of, 226; 

 population of, 231; compression of 

 the nose by the natives of, 150. 



Break between man and the apes, 209. 



Bream, proportion of the sexes in the, 

 329. 



Breeding, age of, in birds, 626. 



