ALOES. 
INDEX. 
ANTHIDIUM. 
407 
Alces palmata, ii. 259. 
Alder and Hancock, MM., on the 
nudi-branch mollusca, i. 326. 
Algen, Mr., on the stridulation of 
Scolytusj i. 379. 
Allen, J. A., on the relative size of 
the sexes of Callorhinus ursinus, ii. 
260 ; on the mane of Otaria jubata, 
ii. 267 ; on the pairing of seals, ii. 
279 ; on sexual differences in the 
colour of bats, ii. 286. 
Allen, S., on the habits of Hoplo- 
pterus, ii. 48 ; on the plumes of 
herons, ii. 82 ; on the vernal moult 
of Herodias bubulcus, ii. 84. 
Alligator, courtship of the male, i. 
272, ii. 29; roaring of the male, 
i. 331. 
Amadavat, pugnacity of male, ii. 49. 
Amadina Lathami, display of plum- 
age by the male, ii. 95. 
Amadina castanotis, display of plum- 
age by the male, ii. 95. 
Amazons, butterflies of the, i. 309 ; 
fishes of the, ii. 17. 
America, variation in the skulls of 
aborigines of, i. 108 ; wide range 
of aborigines of, i. 218; lice of the 
natives of, i. 220; general beard- 
lessness of the natives of, ii. 322. 
America, North, butterflies of, i. 
309 ; Indians of, women a cause of 
strife among the, ii. 324; Indians 
of, their notions of female beauty, 
ii. 344, 347. 
America, South, character of the na- 
tives of, i. 216 ; population of 
parts of, i. 225 ; piles of stones in, 
i. 233 ; extinction of the fossil 
horse of, i. 239 ; desert-birds of, ii. 
224 ; slight sexual difference of the 
aborigines of, ii. 323; prevalence 
of infanticide in, ii. 361. 
American languages, often highly 
artificial, i. 112. 
Americans, wide geographical range 
of, i. 112 ; and negroes, difference 
of, i. 247 ; aversion of, to hair on 
the face, ii. 348 ; native, varia- 
bility of, i. 226. 
Ammopkila^ on the jaws of, i. 342. 
Ammotragus tragelaphus, hairy fore- 
legs of, ii. 282, 285. 
Amphibia, affinity of, to the ganoid 
fishes, i. 204 ; vocal organs of the, 
ii. 331. 
Amphibians, i. 213, ii. 24; breeding 
whilst immature, ii. 215. 
Amphioxus, i. 204. 
Amphipoda, males sexually mature 
while young, ii. 215. 
Amunoph III., negro character of fea- 
tures of, i. 217. 
Anal appendages of insects, i. 342. 
Analogous variation in the plumage 
of birds, ii. 7 4. 
Anas, ii. 180. 
Anas acuta, male plumage of, ii. 84. 
A^ias boschas, male plumage of, ii. 84. 
Anas histrionica, ii. 214. 
Anastomus oscitans, sexes and young 
of, ii. 217 ; white nuptial plumage 
of, ii. 228. 
Anatid^, voices of, ii. 60. 
Anax junius, difference in the sexes 
of, i. 362. 
Anglo-Saxons, estimation of the 
beard among the, ii. 349. 
Animals, cruelty of savages to, i. 94 ; 
domesticated, more fertile than 
wild, i. 132 ; characters common to 
man and, i. 185 ; domestic, change 
of breeds of, ii. 369. 
Annelida, i. 327. 
Annulosa, i. 327. 
Anolis cristatellus, male, crest of, ii. 
32 ; pugnacity of the male, ii. 32 ; 
throat-pouch of, ii. 33. 
Anobiumtessellatum, sounds produced 
by, i. 384. 
Anser canadensis, ii. 116. 
Anser cygnoides, ii. 114 ; knob at the 
base of the beak of, ii. 129. 
Anser hyperboreus, whiteness of, ii. 228. 
Antelope, prong-horned, horns of, 
i. 289. 
Antelopes, geneially polygamous, i. 
267 ; horns of, i. 289, ii. 245 ; ca- 
nine teeth of some male, ii. 241 ; 
use of horns of, ii. 251 ; dorsal 
crests in, ii. 282 ; dewlaps of, ii. 
284 ; winter change of two species 
of, ii. 299 ; peculiar markings of, 
ii. 299. 
Antenna, furnished with cushions in 
the male of Penthe, i. 343. 
Anthidium manicatum, large male of, 
i. 347. 
