INDEX 



Stature, dependence of, upon local in- 

 fluences, 62-63. 



Staudinger, Dr., on breeding Lepidop- 

 tera, 332; his list of Lepidoptera, 

 333. 



Staunton, Sir G., hatred of indecency 

 a modern virtue, 161. 



Stealing b£ bright objects by birds, 633. 



Stebbing, T. R., on the nakedness of 

 the human body, 112. 



Stemmatopus, 683. 



Stendhal, see Bombet. 



Stenobothrus pratorum, stridulation, 

 376. 



Stephen, Mr. Leslie, on the difference 

 in the minds of men and the lower 

 animals. 111; on general concepts 

 in animals, 125; distinction between 

 material and formal morality, 151". 



Sterility, general, of sole daughters, 

 183; when crossed, a distinctive 

 character of species, 222 ; under 

 changed conditions, 252-253. 



Sterna, seasonal change of plumage 

 in, 636. 



Stickleback, polygamous, 291; male, 

 courtship of the, 4-32 ; male, bril- 

 liant coloring of, during the breed- 

 ing season, 443 ; nidification of the, 

 448. 



Sticks, used as implements and weap- 

 ons by monkeys, 115-116. 



Sting in bees, 275. 



Stokes, Captain, on the habits of the 

 great bower-bird, 495. 



Stoliczka, Dr., on colors in snakes, 457. 



Stonechat, young of the, 629. 



Stone implements, difficulty of making, 

 74-75; as traces of extinct tribes, 

 241. 



Stones, used by monkeys for breaking 

 hard fruits, and as missiles, 75-76, 

 114; piles of, 238. 



Stork, black, sexual differences in the 

 bronchi of the, 485; red beak of 

 the, 634. 



Storks, 634, 637; sexual difference in 

 the color of the eyes of, 649. 



Strange, Mr., on the satin bower-bird, 

 493. 



Stretch, Mr., on the numerical propor- 

 tion in the sexes of chickens, 325. 



Strepsiceros kudu, horns of, 661 ; mark- 

 ings of, 703. 



Stridulation, by males of Theridion, 



361 ; of the Orthoptera and Homop- 

 tera discussed, 378; of beetles, 394. 



Stripes, retained throughout groups of 

 birds, 549; disappearance of, in 

 adult mammals, 705. 



Strix flammea, 527. 



Structure, existence of unserviceable 

 modifications of, 88-89. 



Struggle for existence, in man, 191- 

 193. 



Struthers, Dr., on the occurrence of 

 the supra-condyloid foramen in the 

 humerus of man, 40. 



Sturnella ludovioiana, pugnacity of the 

 male, 477. 



Sturnus vulgaris, 528. 



Sub-speciea, 233 ; propriety of using 

 the term, 234. 



Suffering, in strangers, indifference of 

 savages to, 160. 



Suicide, 185 ; formerly not regarded as 

 a crime, 159 ; rarely practiced among 

 the lowest savages, 159. 



Suidse, stripes of young, 599. 



Sulivan, Sir B. J., on speaking of par- 

 rots, 120; on two stallions attacking 

 a third, 647. 



Sumatra, compression of the nose by 

 the Malays of, 750. 



Summer, Archbishop, man alone capa- 

 ble of progressive improvement, 113. 



Sun-birds, nidification of, 586. 



Superstitions, 194; prevalence of, 165. 



Superstitious customs, 133. 



Superciliary ridge, in man more marked 

 than in woman, 716; ia male and 

 female monkeys, 718. 



Supernumerary digits, more frequent 

 in men than in women, 295; in- 

 heritance of, 305-306; early devel- 

 opment of, 312. 



Supra-condyloid foramen in the early 

 progenitors of man, 215. 



Suspicion, prevalence of, among ani- 

 mals, 99. 



Swallow-tail butterfly, 407. 



Swallows deserting their young, 147, 

 154-155. 



Swan, black, wild, trachea of the, 486 ; 

 white, young of, 623; red beak of 

 the, 634; black-necked, 637. 



Swans, 634, 637; young, 620. 



Swaysland, Mr., on the arrival of mi- 

 gratory birds, 280. 



Swifts, migration of, 147. 



