INDEX 



823 



Fiji Archipelago, population of the, 

 231. 



• Islands, beards of the natives, 



721, 148; marriage-customs of the, 

 169-710. 



Filial afEeotion, partly the result of nat- 

 ural selection, 144. 



Klum terminale, 42. 



Finch, racket-shaped feathers in the 

 tail of a, 497. 



Finches, spring change of color in, 508 ; 

 British females of the, 607. 



Fingers, partially coherent, in species 

 of Hylobates, 76. 



Finlayson, on the Cochin Chinese, 744. 



Fire, use of, 73, 194, 239. 



Fischer, on the pugnacity of the male 

 of Lethrus cephalotes, 393. 



Fish, eagerness of male, 292; propor- 

 tion of the sexes in, 328-329 ; sounds 

 produced by, 451-452. 



Fishes, kidneys of, represented by Cor- 

 pora wolffiana in the human embryo, 

 26-27; male, hatching ova in their 

 mouths, 218; receptacles for ova 

 possessed by, 275; relative size of 

 the sexes in, 436; fresh water, of 

 the tropics, 447; protective resem- 

 blances in, 447 ; change of color in, 

 448; nest building, 448; spawning 

 of, 449-450 ; sounds produced by, 

 451, 729; continued growth of, 624. 



Flamingo, age of mature plumage in, 

 624. 



Flexor poUicis longus, similar variation 

 of, in man, 66. 



Flint tools, 195. 



Flints, difficulty of chipping into form, 

 74. 



Floresuga meUivora, 571. 



Florida, Quiscalus major in, 327. 



Flounder, coloration of the, 447. 



Flower, W. H., on the abductor of the 

 fifth metatarsal in apes, 66; on 

 the position of the seals, 201; 

 on the Pithecia monachus, 266; on 

 the throat pouch of the male bus- 

 tard, 483. 



Fly-catchers, colors and m'diflcation 

 of, 586. 



Foetus, human, woolly covering of the, 

 38 ; arrangement of the hair on the, 

 203. 



Food, influence of, upon stature, 62. 



Foot, prehensile power of the, retained 



in some savages, 77; preAensile, in 

 the early progenitors of man, 215. 



Foramen, supra-condyloid, exceptional 

 occurrence of, in the humerus of 

 man, 41, 67 ; in the early progeni- 

 tors of man, 215. 



Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians, 

 56 ; on local variation of color in the 

 Quiohuas, 260; on the hairlessness 

 of the Aymaras and Quichuas, 722; 

 on the long hair of the Aymaras and 

 Qi^ichuas, 722, 747. 



Porel, F., on white yoftng swans, 623. 



Formica rufa, size of the cerebral gan- 

 glia in, 80. 



Fossils, absence of, coimecting man 

 with the apes, 209. 



Fowl, occurrence of spurs in the fe- 

 male, 300; game, early pugnacity 

 of, 314; Polish, early development 

 of cranial peculiarities of, 314; varia- 

 tions in plumage of, 498 ; examples 

 of correlated development in the, 

 550; domestic, breeds and sub- 

 breeds of, 593. 



Fowls, spangled Hamburg, 302, 314; 

 inheritance of changes of plumage 

 by, 302 ; sexual peculiarities in, 

 transmitted only to the same sex, 

 303 ; loss of secondary sexual char- 

 acters by male, 304; Pohsh, origin 

 of the crest in, 304; period of inheri- 

 tance of characters by, 313 ; cuckoo-, 

 314; development of the comb in, 

 314; numerical proportion of the 

 sexes in, 325; courtship of, 438; 

 mongrel, between a black Spanish 

 cock and different hens, 551 ; pen- 

 cilled Hamburg, difference of the 

 sexes in, 576; Spanish, sexual dif- 

 ferences of the comb in, 576 ; spurred, 

 in both sexes, 579. 



Fox, W. D., on some half-tamed wild 

 ducks becoming polygamous, and on 

 polygamy in the guinea-fowl and 

 canary bird, 290 ; on the proportion 

 of the sexes in cattle, 324; on the 

 pugnacity of the peacock, 473; on 

 a nuptial assembly of magpies, 525; 

 on the finding of new mates by 

 crows, 526; on partridges living in 

 triplets, 628; on the pairing of a 

 goose with a Chinese gander, 636. 



Foxes, wariness of young, in hunting 

 districts. 114; black, 697. 



