INDEX 



843 



the facial bones, 82; of the early 

 progenitors of man, 215; greater 

 variability of the, in men than in 

 women, 295. 



Musculus aternalis. Prof. Turner on 

 the, 30. 



Music, rude, 238; of birds, 418; dis- 

 cordant, love of savages for, 492; 

 reason of power of perception of 

 notes in animals, 131; power of 

 distinguishing notes, 732-733; of 

 the nations of "WeslBrn Europe, 734; 

 connection of, with primeval speech, 

 735 ; difEerent appreciation of, by 

 difEerent peoples, 733-734; origin 

 of, 733, 737; effects of, 735. 



Musical cadences, perception of, by 

 animals, 732; powers of man, 728 

 et seq. 



Musk-deer, canine teeth of male, 648, 

 663, 664; male, odoriferous organs 

 of the, 684; winter change of the, 

 700. 



Mugl£-duck, Australian, 466 ; large size 

 o£ male, 471; of Guiana, pugnacity 

 of the male, 469. 



Muslt-ox, horns of, 653. 



Musk-rat, protective resemblance of 

 the, to a clod of earth, 700. 



Musophagse, colors and nidiflcation of 

 the, 587 ; both sexes of, equally 

 brilliant, 592-593. 



Mussels, opened by monkeys, 75. 



Mustaches, in monkeys, 202. 



Mustache-monkey, color of the, 694, 

 712. 



Mustela, winter change of two species 

 of, 700. 



Musters, Captain, on Ehea Darwinii, 

 617; marriages among Patagonians, 

 769. 



Mutilations, healing of, 24; inheri- 

 tance of, 87. 



Mutilla europsea, stridulatiou of, 385; 

 power possessed by other sexes, ac- 

 cording to Groureau, 385. 



Muti Hides, absence of ocelli in female, 

 362. 



Myceies caraya, polygamous, 287; 

 vocal organs of, 681; beard of, 

 686; sexual differences of color in, 

 693; voice of, 730. 



seniculus, sexual differences of 



color in, 694. 



Myriapoda, 361. 



Nageli, on the influence of nt^tural 

 selection on plants, 88; on the 

 gradation of species of plants, 233. 



Nails, colored yellow or purple in part 

 of A.frica, 739. 



Narwhal, tusks of the, 648, 655. 



Nasal cavities, large size of, in Ameri- 

 can aborigines, 56. 



Nascent organs, 28. 



Nathusius, H. von, on the improved 

 breeds of pigs, 236; male domesti- 

 cated animals more variable than 

 females, 294; horns of castrated 

 sheep, 654; on the breeding of 

 domestic animals, 767. 



Natural selection, its effects on the 

 early progenitors of man, 72; in- 

 fluence of, on man, 86-90; limita- 

 tion of the principle, 89 ; influence 

 of, on social animals, 90; Mr. Wal- 

 lace on the limitation of, by the 

 influence of the mental faculties in 

 man, 172; influence of, in the prog- 

 ress of the United Scales, 191; in 

 relation to sex, 342. 



Natural and sexual selection con- 

 trasted, 297-298. 



Naulette, jaw from, large size of the 

 canines in, 63. 



Neanderthal skull, capacity of the, 81. 



Neck, proportion of, in soldiers and 

 sailors, 54. 



Necrophorus, stridulatiou of, 696, 698. 



Nectarinia, young of, 604. 



Nectarinise, moulting of the, 506; nidi- 

 flcation of, 586. 



Negro, resemblance of a, to Europeans, 

 in mental characters, 237. 



Negro- women, their kindness to Mungo 

 Park, 160. 



Negroes, Caucasian features in, 223; 

 character of, 224; lice of, 227; fer- 

 tility of, when crossed with other 

 races, 228; blackness of, 230-231; 

 variability of, 232-233; immunity 

 of, from yellow fever, 256; differ- 

 ence of, from Americans, 261 ; dis- 

 figurements of the, 698; color of 

 new-born children of, 718; compar- 

 ative beardlessness of, 721; readily 

 become musicians, 734; apprecia- 

 tion of beauty of their women by, 

 743, 746; idea of beauty among, 



