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INDEX 



Kidney, one, doing doable work in dis- 

 ease, 53-54. 



King, W. E., on the vocal organs of 

 Tetrao cupido, 483; on the drum- 

 ming of grouse, 48T-488; on the 

 reindeer, 650; on the attraction of 

 male deer by the voice of the female, 

 680. 



King and Pitzroy, on the marriage-cus- 

 toms of the Fuegians, YIO. 



King-crows, nidiflcation of, 584. 



Kingfisher, harsh cry of, 482 ; spoon 

 or racket-shaped feathers in the tail 

 of a, 497. 



Kingfishers, colors and nidiflcation of 

 the, 587, 589, 591 ; immature plu- 

 mage of the, 602, 604; young of 

 the, 621. 



King Lory, 590 ; immature plumage of 

 the, 602. 



Kingsley, C, on the sounds produced 

 by TJmbrina, 452. 



Kirby and Spence, on sexual differ- 

 ences in the length of the snout 

 in Ouroulionidse, 216; on the court- 

 ship of insects, 292 ; on the elytra 

 of Dytiscus, 364; on peculiarities in 

 the legs of male insects, 364; on the 

 relative size of the sexes in insects, 

 367; on the Pulgorid^, 371; on the 

 habits of Termites, 482 ; on differ- 

 ence of color in the sexes of beetles, 

 386 ; on the horns of the male lamel- 

 licorn beetles, 389 ; on hornlike proc- 

 esses in male Cureulionidae, 391 ; on 

 the pugnacity of the male stag-bee- 

 tle, 392. 



Kite, killed by a game-cock, 471. 



Knot, retention of winter plumage by 

 the, 505. 



Knox, E., on the semilunar fold, 36; 

 on the occurrence of the supra-con- 

 dyloid foramen in the humerus of 

 man, 40; on the features of the 

 young Memnon, 225. 

 Koala, length of the csecum in, 40. 

 Kobua ellipsiprymnus, proportion of 



the sexes in, 325. 

 Kolreuter, on the sterility of hybrid 



plants, 229. 

 Koodoo, development of the horns of 



the, 308; markings of the, 703. 

 Koppen, P. T., on the migratory locust, 



372. 

 Koraka, marriage-cnstomB «f, 770. 



Kordofan, protuberances artificially 



produced by natives of, 739. 

 Korte, on the proportion of sexes in 



locusts, 336; Eussian locusts, 372. 

 Kovalevsky, A., on the afBnity of the 



Ascidia to the Vertebrata, 213-214. 

 , W., on the pugnacity of the male 



capercailzie, 472; on the pairing of 



the capercailzie, 476. 

 Krause, on a convoluted body at the 



extremity of the tail in a Macacus 



and a cat, 43. 

 Kupffer, Prof., on the affinity of the 

 Ascidia to the Vertebrata, 214. 



Labidocera Darwinii, prehensile organs 

 of the male, 352. 



Labrus, splendid colors of the species 

 of, 445. 



mixtus, sexual differences in, 439, 



443. 



pavo, 445. 



Lacertilia, sexual differences of, 460. 



Lafresnaye, M. de, on birds of para- 

 dise, 500. 



Lamarck, on the origin of man, 19. 



Lamellibranchiata, 347. 



Lamellicorn beetles, hornlike proc- 

 esses from the head and tliorax of, 

 388, 391; influence of sexual selec- 

 tion on, 393. 



Lamellicomia, stridulation of, 396. 



Lamont, Mr., on the tusks of the wal- 

 rus, 648 ; on the use of its tusks by 

 the walrus, 663 ; on the bladder-nose 

 seal, 682. 



Lampornis porphyrurus, colors of the 

 female, 585. 



Lampyridje, distasteful to mammals, 

 365. 



Lancelot, or amphioxus- 213, 220. 



Landois, H., gnats attracted by sound, 

 369 ; on the production of sound by 

 the Cicadse, 371 ; on the stridulating 

 organ of the crickets, 373 ; on Dec- 

 ticus, 375; on the stridulating or- 

 gans of the Acridiidse, 376; stridu- 

 lating apparatus in Orthoptera, 378; 

 sounds produced by Atropus, 382; 

 on the stridulation of Necrophoms, 

 395 ; on the stridulant organ of Ce- 

 rambyx heros, 396; on the strldu- 



