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INDEX. 
BUSHMEN. 
242 ; on the occasional absence of 
the tusks in the female walrus, ii. 
242 ; on the bladder-nose seal, ii. 
278 ; on the colours of the sexes in 
Flioca groenlandica, ii. 287 ; on 
the appreciation of music by seals, 
ii. 333 ; on plants used as love- 
philters, by North American women, 
ii. 344. 
Brown-SeQUARD, Dr., on the inheri- 
tance of the effects of operations by 
guinea pigs, ii. 380. 
Bruce, on the use of the elephant’s 
tusks, ii. 249. 
Brulerie, P. de la, on the habits of 
Ateuchus cicatricosus, i. 376; on 
the stridulation of Ateuchus^ i. 384. 
Brunnich, on the pied ravens of the 
Feroe islands, ii. 126. 
Bryant, Capt., on the courtship of 
Callorliinus U)'sinus, ii. 269. 
Buhas bison, thoracic projection of, i. 
372. 
Bucephalus capensis, difference of the 
sexes of, in colour, ii. 29. 
Buceros, nidification and incubation 
of, ii. 169. 
Buceros hicornis, sexual differences in 
the colouring of the casque, beak, 
and mouth in, ii. 129. 
Buceros corrugatus, sexual difference 
in the beak of, ii. 72. 
Buchner, L., on the origin of man, 
i. 4 ; on the want of self-conscious- 
ness, &c., in low savages, i. 62 ; on 
the use of the human foot as a 
prehensile organ, i. 142 ; on the 
mode of progression of the apes, 
i. 142. 
Buckland, F., on the numerical pro- 
portion of the sexes in rats, i. 305 ; 
on the proportion of the sexes in 
the trout, i. 308 ; on Chimsera mon- 
strosa, ii. 12. 
Buckland, W., on the complexity of 
crinoids, i. 61. 
Buckler, W., proportion of sexes of 
Lepidoptera reared by, i. 313. 
Buckinghamshire, numerical pro- 
portion of male and female births 
in, i. 300. 
Bucorax abyssinicus, inflation of the 
neck-wattle of the male, during 
courtship, ii. 72. 
Budytes Bail, i. 260. 
Buffalo, Cape, ii. 250. 
Buffalo, Indian, horns of the, ii„ 
247. 
Buffalo, Italian, mode of fic^htins: off 
the, ii. 250. 
Buffon, on the number of species of 
man, i. 226. 
Bugs, i. 349. 
Buist, E., on the proportion of the 
sexes in salmon, i. 308 ; on the pug- 
nacity of the male salmon, ii. 3. 
Bulbul, pugnacity of the male, ii. 
41 ; display of under tail-coverts 
by the male, ii. 96. 
Bull, mode of fighting of the, ii. 250 ; 
curled frontal hair of the, ii. 282. 
Bullfinch, sexual differences in the, 
i. 269 ; piping, ii. 52 ; female, sing- 
ing of the, ii. 54 ; courtship of the, 
ii. 94 ; widowed, finding a new 
mate, ii. 105 ; attacking a reed- 
bunting, ii. Ill ; nestling, sex as- 
certained by pulling out breast- 
feathers, ii. 214. 
Bullfinches distinguishing persons, 
ii. 110; rivalry of female, ii. 121. 
Bulls, two young, attacking an old 
one, i. 75; wild, battles of, ii. 240. 
Bull-trout, male, colouring of, 
during the breeding season, ii. 14. 
Bunting, reed, head feathers of the- 
male, ii. 95 ; attacked by a bull- 
finch, ii. 111. 
Buntings, characters of young, ii. 
184. 
Buphus coromandus, sexes and young 
of, ii. 217 ; change of colour in, ii. 
231, 232. 
Burchell, Dr., on the zebra, ii. 302 ; 
on the extravagance of a Bush- 
woman in adorning herself, ii. 
344 ; celibacy unknown among the 
savages of South Africa, ii. 367 ; 
on the marriage-customs of the 
Bushwomen, ii. 374. 
Burke, on the number of species of 
man, i. 226. 
Burmese, colour of the beard in, ii. 
319. 
Burton, Capt., on negro ideas of 
female beauty, ii. 346 ; on a uni- 
versal ideal of beauty, ii. 351. 
Bushmen, i. 157. 
