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INDEX 



difierenoe of stature, 52; on tlie 

 want of connection between cli- 

 mate and the color of the skin, 

 256; on the odor of the skin, 262; 

 on the color of infants, T18. 



Goldfinch, 482, 508 ; proportion of the 

 sexes in the, 327 ; sexual differences 

 of the beak in the, 467 ; courtship of 

 the, 518. 



• , North American, young of, 626. 



Goldfish, reared in confinement from 

 antiquity, 446. 



Gomphus, proportions of the sexes in, 

 336; difference in the sexes of, 381. 



Gonepteryx Ehamni, 407 ; sexual dif- 

 ference of color in, 420. 



Goodsir, Prof., on the affinity of the 

 lancelet or amphioxus to the ascid- 

 ians, 213. 



Goosander, young of, resemble adult 

 female, 603. 



Goose, Antarctic, colors of the, 635. 



, Canada, pairing with a Bernicle 



gander, 535. 



. , Chinese, knob on the beak of 



the, 550. 



— — , Egyptian, 473. 



— — , Sebastopol, plumage of, 498. 



• , Snow-, whiteness of the, 636. 



■ , Spur-winged, 473. 



Gorilla, 722 ; semi-erect attitude of the, 

 78; mastoid processes of 1he, 78-79; 

 direction of the hair on the arms of 

 the, 202-203; manner of sitting, 

 203 ; supposed to be a kind of man- 

 drill, 236; polygamy of the, 286, 

 760; voice of the, 681; cranium 

 of adult male, 718; sagittal crest 

 absent in female, 719; fighting of 

 male, 723; difference in skull of 

 male and female, 724; immense 

 canine teeth of male, 724. 



Gosse, P. H., on the pugnacity of 

 the male Humming-bird, 468. 



, M., of Geneva, on the inheri- 

 tance of artificial modifications of 

 the skull, 776. 



Gould, B. A., on variation in the 

 length of the legs in man, 46; 

 measurements of American soldiers, 

 62, 64; on the proportions of the 

 body and capacity of the lungs in 

 different races of men, 224; on the 

 inferior vitality of mulattoes, 228. 



— — , J., on migration of swifts, 147; 



on the arrival of male snipes before 

 the females, 280; on the numerical 

 proportion of the sexes in birds, 

 326; on Neomorpha Grypus, 467; 

 on the species of Eustephanus, 467 ; 

 on the Australian musk-duck, 466; 

 on the relative size of the sexes in 

 Briziura lobata and Cincloramphus 

 cruralis, 471; on Lobivauellus loba- 

 tus, 475; on the habits of Menura 

 Alberti, 481 ; on the rarity of song 

 in brilliant birds, 481-482; on Selas- 

 phorus platycercus, 489 ; on the 

 Bower-birds, 493-494, 524; on the 

 ornamental plumage of the Hum- 

 ming-birds, 500; on the moulting 

 of the ptarmigan, 506; on the 

 display of plumage by the male 

 Humming-birds, 509; 'on the shy- 

 ness of adorned male birds, 520; 

 on the decoration of the bowers of 

 Bower-birds, 534; on the decora- 

 tion of their nests by Humming- 

 birds, 533; on variation in the 

 genus Cynanthus, 546; on the 

 color of the thighs in a male paro- 

 quet, 547 ; on Urosticte Benjamini, 

 570-571; on the nidification of the 

 Orioles, 584; on obscurely-colored 

 birds building concealed nests, 584; 

 on trogons and kingfishers, 689; on 

 Australian parrots, 590 ; on Austra- 

 lian pigeons, 691 ; on the moulting 

 of the ptarmigan, 596 ; on the im- 

 mature plumage of birds, 601 et seq.; 

 on the Australian species of Turnix, 

 613; on the young of Aithurus po- 

 lytmus, 629; on the colors of the 

 biUs of toucans, 635 ; on the relative 

 size of the sexes in the Marsupials of 

 Australia, 666 ; on the colors of the 

 Marsupials, 689. 



Goureaux, on the stridulation of Mu- 

 tilla europsea, 386. 



Gout, sexually transmitted, 312. 



Graba, on the Pied Ravens of the Feroe 

 Islands, 647 ; variety of the Guille- 

 mot, 548. 



Gradation of secondary sexual charac- 

 ters in birds, 664. 



GraUatores, absence of secondary sex- 

 ual characters in, 290 ; double moult 

 in some, 604. 



Grallina, nidification of, 586. 



Grasshoppers, stridulation of the, 376. 



