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INDEX 



of the eyes in, 549; nidiflcatiou aod 

 incubatioa of, 585. 



Home, 0., on the rejection of a brightly 

 colored locust by lizards and birds, 

 380. 



Horns, sexual differences of, in sheep 

 and goats, 303; loss of, in female 

 merino sheep, 304 ; development of, 

 in deer, BOB; development of, in an- 

 telopes, 309; from the head and 

 thorax, in male-beetles, 390; of 

 deer, 650, 653, 664; and canine 

 teeth, inverse development of, 663. 



Horse, fossil, extinction of the, in 

 South America, 254; polygamous, 

 287 ; canine teeth of male, 648 ; 

 winter change of color, TOO. 



Horses, rapid increase of, in South 

 America, Tl; diminution of canine 

 teeth in, 79 ; dreaming, 106 ; of the 

 Falkland Islands and Pampas, 241; 

 •numerical proportion of the sexes in, 

 284-285; lighter in winter in Sibe- 

 ria, 302; sexual preferences in, 677; 

 pairing preferently with those of the 

 same color, 698; numerical propor- 

 tion of male and female births in, 

 322-323; formerly striped, 707. 



Hottentot women, peculiarities of, 232. 



Hottentots, lice of, 227 ; readUy become 

 musicians, 734; notions of female 

 beauty of the, 746; compression of 

 nose by, 750. 



Hough, Dr. S. , men's temperature more 

 variable than women's, 298 ; propor- 

 tion of sexes in man, 320. 



House-slaves, difference of, from fleld- 

 slaves, 260. 



Houzeau, on the baying of the dog, 

 106-107; on reason in dogs, 108; 

 birds killed by telegraph wires, 113 ; 

 on the cries of domestic fowls and 

 parrots, 120, 123; animals feel no 

 pity, 140; suicide in the Aleutian 

 Islands, 159. 



Howorth, H. H., extinction of savages, 

 244. 



Huber, P., on ants playing together, 

 99; on memory in ants, 106; on the 

 intercommunication of ants, 125; on 

 the recognition of each other by 

 ants after separation, 383. 



Hue, on Chinese opinions of the ap- 

 pearance of Europeans, 744. 



Hum, the, of New Zealand, 276. 



Human, man classed alone in a, king- 

 dom, 197. 



sacrifices, 133. 



Humanity, unknown among some sav- 

 ages, 160 ; deficiency of, among sav- 

 ages, 166. 



Humboldt, A. von, on the rationality 

 of mules, 111 ; on a parrot preserv- 

 ing the language of a lost tribe, 240 ; 

 on the cosmetic arts of savages, 739; 

 on the exaggeration of natural char- 

 acters by man, 749-750; on the red 

 painting of American Indians, 751. 



Hume, D., on sympathetic feelings, 

 149. 



Humming-bird, racket-shaped feathers 

 in the tail of a, 497 ; display of plu- 

 mage by the male, 509. 



Humming-birds, ornament their nests, 

 128, 533; polygamous, 289; propor- 

 tion of the sexes in, 327, 629 ; sexual 

 differences in, 467, 570; pugnacity 

 of male, 468; modified primaries of 

 male, 489; coloration of the sexes 

 of, 500; display by, 571; nidiflca- 

 tiou of the, 585 ; colors of female, 

 585 ; young of, 629. 



Humphreys, H. N., on the habits of 

 the stickleback, 291, 432. 



Hunger, instinct of, 153. 



Huns, ancient, flattening of the nose 

 by the, 750. 



Hunter, J., on the number of species 

 of man, 232 ; on secondary sexual 

 characters, 274; on the general be- 

 havior of female animals during 

 courtship, 292 ; on the muscles of 

 the larynx in song-birds, 481 ; on 

 the curled frontal hair of the bull, 

 686; on the rejection of an ass by 

 a female zebra, 698. 



, W. W., on the recent rapid 



increase of the Santali, 69 ; on the 

 Santali, 255. 



Huss, Dr. Max, on mammary glands, 

 217. 



Hussey, Mr., on a partridge distin- 

 guishing persons, 532. 



Hutchinson, Col., example of reasoning 

 in a retriever. 111. 



Hutton, Capt., on the male wild goat 

 falling on his horns, 656. 



Huxley, T. H., on the structural agree- 

 ment of man with the apes, 18; on 

 the agreement of the brain in man 



