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INDEX 



'Weapons, nstA by man, 73 ; employed 

 by monkeya, 116 ; ofienaive, of males, 

 278; of mammals, 646 et seq. 



■Weaver-bird, 480. 



Weaver-birds, rattling of the wings of, 

 487 ; assemblies of, 423. 



Webb, Dr., on the wisdom teeth, 

 39. 



Wodderbum, Mr., assembly of black 

 game, 625. 



Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on the origin 

 of language, 122. 



Weevils, sexual difference in length of 

 snout in some, 276. 



Weir, Harrison, on the numerical pro- 

 portion of the sexes in pigs and rab- 

 bits, 324-325 ; on the sexes of young 

 pigeons, 326; on the sougs of birds, 

 478; on pigeons, 631; on the dislike 

 of blue pigeons to other colored va- 

 rielies, 640 ; on the desertion of their 

 mates by female pigeons, 540. 



- , J. Jenner, on the nightingale 

 and blackcap, 280; on the relative 

 sexual maturity of male birds, 282; 

 on female pigeons deserting a feeble 

 mate, 283; on three starlings fre- 

 quenting the same neat, 289; on 

 the proportion of the sexes in Ma- 

 chetes pugnax and other birds, 326; 

 on the coloration of the Triphaense, 

 409; on the rejection of certain 

 caterpillars by birds, 524; on sex- 

 ual difEerencea of the beak in the 

 goldfinch, 467 ; on a piping bull- 

 finch, 478; on the object of the 

 nightingale's song, 478; on song- 

 birds, 479; on the pugnacity of 

 male fine-plumaged birds, 516; on 

 the courtship of birds, 517; on 

 the finding of new mates by Pere- 

 grine-falcons and Kestrels, 527; on 

 the bullfinch and starling, 527-528; 

 on the cause of birds remaining un- 

 paired, 529; on starlings and parrots 

 living in triplets, 528; on recogni- 

 tion of color by birds, 532 ; on hy- 

 brid birds, 535 ; on the selection of 

 a greenfinch by -a female canary, 

 636 ; on a case of rivalry of female 

 bullfinches, 542 ; on the maturity of 

 the golden-pheasant, 624. 



Weisbach, Dr., measurement of men 

 of different races, 224; on the 

 greater variability of men than of 



women, 294-296; on the reJative 

 proportions of the body in the 

 sexes of different races of man, 

 720. 



Weismann, Prof., colors of Lycsense, 

 408. 



Welcker, M., on brachycephaly and 

 dolichocephaly, 83; on sexual dif- 

 ferences in the skull in mao, 717. 



■Wells, Dr., on the immunity of colored 

 races from certain poisons, 266. 



■Westring, on the stridulation of males 

 of Theridion, 361 ; on the stridula- 

 tion of Reduvius personatus, 370; 

 on the stridulation of beetles, 395; 

 on the stridulation of Omaloplia 

 brunnea, 397 ; on the stridulating 

 organs of the Coleoptera, 399; on 

 sounds produced by Cychrus, 398, 



■Westropp, H. M., on reason in a bear, 

 109; on the prevalence of certain 

 forms of ornamentation, 238. 



■West wood, J. 0., on the classification 

 of the Hymenoptera, 199; on the 

 Cullcidse and Tabanidse, 275 ; on a 

 Hymenopterous parasite with a sed- 

 entary male, 292 ; on the propor- 

 tions of the sexes in Lucanus cervua 

 and Siagonium, 335 ; on the absence 

 of ocelli in female mutillidae, 362 ; on 

 the jaws of Ammophila, 363; on the 

 copulation of insects of distinct spe- 

 cies, 364; on the male of Crabro 

 cribrarius, 364; on the pugnacity 

 of male Tipulse, 369 ; on the stridu- 

 lation of Pirates stridulus, 370; on 

 the Cicadse, 371; on the stridulat- 

 ing organs of the crickets, 373; 

 on Ephippiger vitium, 375, 378; on 

 Pneumora, 376-377; on the pug- 

 nacity of the Mantideg, 379; on 

 Platyblemnus, 380; on difference 

 in the sexes of the Agrionidee, 

 380; on the pugnacity of the 

 males of a species of Tenthre- 

 - dinsB, 383 ; on the pugnacity of 

 the male stag-beetle, 392; ou Ble- 

 dius taurus, and Siagonium, 391- 

 392; on lamellicorn beetles, 394; 

 on the coloration of Lithosia, 410. 



Whale, Sperm-, battles of male, 646. 



Whales, nakedness of, 83. 



■Whately, Archbishop, language not pe- 

 culiar to man, 119 ; on the primitive 

 civilization of man, 193. 



