INDEX 



867 



"Whewell, Prof., on maternal affection, 

 100. 



Whiskers, in monkeys, 202. 



■White, F. B., noise produced hj Hy- 

 lopliila, 402. 



, Gilbert, on the proportion of the 



sexes in the partridge, 326; on the 

 house-cricket, 372j on the object of 

 the song of birds, 479; on Ihe find- 

 ing o£ new mates by white owls, 

 627 ; on spring coveys of male par- 

 tridges, 529. 



Whiteness, a sexual ornament in some 

 birds, 638; of mammals inhabiting 

 snowy countries, 700. 



White-throat, aerial love-dance of the 

 male, 493. 



Whitney, Prof., on the development of 

 language, 121 ; language not indis- 

 pensable for thought, 124. 



Widgeon, pairing with a pintail duck, 

 535. 



Widow -bird, polygamous, 289; breed- 

 ing plumage of the male, 507, 520; 

 female, rejecting the unadorned male, 

 541. 



Widows and widowers, mortality of, 

 188. 



Wilckens, Dr., on the modification of 

 domestic animals in mountainous 

 regions, 57 ; on a numerical rela- 

 tion between the hairs and excre- 

 tory pores in sheep, 262. 



Wilder, Dr. Burt, on the greater fre- 

 quency of supernumerary digits in 

 men than in women, 295. 



Williams, on the marriage customs of 

 the Fijians, 770. 



Wilson, Dr., on the conical heads of 

 the natives of Northwestern Amer- 

 ica, 750; on the Fijians, 750; on 

 the persistence of the fashion of 

 compressing the skull, 751. 



Wing-spurs, 579. 



Wings, dfferences of, in the two sexes 

 of butterflies and Hymenoptera, 365 ; 

 play of, in the courtship of birds, 517. 



Winter, change of color of mammals 

 in, 700. 



Witchcraft, 133-134. 



Wives, traces of the forcible capture 

 of, 194. 



Wolf, winter change of the, 700. 



Wolff, on the variability of the viscera 

 in man, 47. 



Wollaston, T. V., on Burygnathus, 

 365; on musical Curculionidae, 396; 

 on the stridulation of Acalles, 400. 



Wolves, learning to bark from dogs, 

 104; hunting in packs, 139. 



, black, 697. 



Wombat, black varieties of the, 697. 



Women, distinguished from men by 

 male monkeys, 25; preponderance 

 of, in numbers, 321-322; selection 

 of, for beauty, 752; eiiects of selec- 

 tion of, in accordance with different 

 standards of beauty, 752; practice 

 of capturing, 759-762; early be- 

 trothals and slavery of, 763; free- 

 dom of selection by, in savage tribes, 

 770. 



Wonder, manifestations of, by animals, 

 102. 



Wonfor, Mr., on sexual peculiarities in 

 the wings of butterflies, 365. 



Wood, J., on muscular variations in 

 man, 47, 64-66 ; on the greater va- 

 riability of the muscles in men than 

 in women, 294^295. 



, T. W., on the coloring of the 



orange-tip butterfly, 408; on the 

 habits of the Saturniidae, 412; quar- 

 rels of chamseleons, 463 ; on the 

 habits of Menura Alberti, 481 ; on 

 Tetrao cupido, 483-484; on the dis- 

 play of plumage by male pheasants, 

 510; on the ocellated spots of the 

 Argus pheasant, 568 ; on the habits 

 of the female cassowary, 617. 



Woodcock, coloration of the, 634. 



Woodpecker, selection of a mate by 

 the female, 537. 



Woodpeckers, harsh cry of, 482; tap- 

 ping of, 487 ; colors and nidification 

 of the, 587, 590, 632; characters of 

 young, 600, 612, 621. 



Woolner, Mr., observations on the ear 

 in man, 33. 



Wormald, Mr., on the coloration of 

 Hypopyra, 411. 



Wounds, healing of, 24. 



Wren, 611; young of the, 621. 



Wright, 0. A., on the young of Oro- 

 cetes and Petrocincla, 628-629. 



, Chauncey, great brain power 



requisite for language, 73 ; on cor- 

 relative acquisition, 735 ; on the en- 

 largement of the brain in man, 786. 



, Mr., on the Scotch deerhound. 



