492 



BEES. 



CLIMATE. 



Bees, hive, not sucking the red clover, 



95. 

 , , cell-making instinct, 224. 





c. 



, humble, cells of, 225. 



Cabbage, varieties of, crossed, 99. 



, parasitic, 218. 



Calceolaria, 251. 



Beetles, wingless, in Madeira, 135. 



Canary-birds, sterility of hybrids, 252. 



with deficient tarsi, 135. 



Cape de Verde islands, 398. 



Bentham, Mr., on British plants, 48. 



Cape of Good Hope, plants of, 110, 



, on classification, 419. 



375. 



Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in salt-water, 



Carrier-pigeons killed by hawks, 362. 



358. 



Cassini on flowers of composite, 145. 



Bermuda, birds of, 391. 



Catasetum, 424. 



Birds acquiring fear, 212. 



Cats, with blue eyes, deaf, 12. 



annually cross the Atlantic, 364. 



, variation in habits of, 91. 



, colour of, on continents, 132. 



curling tail when going to spring, 



, fossil, in caves of Brazil, 339. 



201. 



of Madeira, Bermuda, and Gala- 



Cattle destroying fir-trees, 71. 



pagos, 390. 



destroyed by flies in La Plata, 



, song of males, 89. 



72. 



transporting seeds, 361. 



, breeds of, locally extinct, 111. 



, waders, 386. 



, fertility of Indian and European 



, wingless, 134, 182. 



breeds, 254. 



, with traces of embryonic teeth, 



Cave, inhabitants of, blind, 137. 



451. 



Centres of creation, 352. 



Bizcacha, 349. 



Cephalopoda?, development of, 442. 



, affinities of, 429. 



Cervulus, 253. 



Bladder for swimming in fish, 190. 



Cetacea, teeth and hair, 144. 



Blindness of cave animals, 137. 



Ceylon, plants of, 375. 



Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of Indian 



Chalk formation, 322. 



cattle, 18. 



Characters, divergence of, 111. 



, on striped Hemionns, 163. 



, sexual, variable, 156. 



-, on crossed geese, 253. 



, adaptive or analogical, 427. 



Boar, shoulder-pad of, 88. 



Charlock, 76. 



Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer, 



Checks to increase, 67. 



35. 



, mutual, 71. 



Bory St. Vincent on Batrachians, 



Chickens, instinctive tameness of, 216. 



393. 



Chthamalinae, 288. 



Bosquet, M., on fossil Chthamalus, 



Chthamalus, cretacean species of, 304. 



304. 



Circumstances favourable to selection of 



Boulders, erratic, on the Azores, 363. 



domestic products, 40. 



Branchiae, 190. 



to natural selection, 101. 



Brent, Mr., on house-tumblers, 214. 



Cirripedes capable of crossing, 101. 



, on hawks killing pigeons, 362. 



, carapace aborted, 148. 



Brewer, Dr., on American cuckoo, 



, their ovigerous frena, 192. 



217. 



, fossil, 304. 



Britain, mammals of, 395. 



, larva; of, 440. 



Bronu on duration of specific forms, 



Classification, 413. 



293. 



Clift, Mr., on the succession of types, 



Brown, Robert, on classification, 414. 



339. 



Buckman on variation in plants, 10. 



Climate, effects of, in checking increase 



Buzareingues on sterility of varieties, 



of beings, 68. 



270. 



, adaptation of, to organisms, 139. 



