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GIBBON. 
INDEX. 
GOULD. 
Gibbon, Hoolock, nose of, i. 192. 
Gibbons, voice of, ii. 276. 
Giraffe, mute, except in the rutting 
season, ii. 274; its mode of using 
the horns, ii. 250. 
Giraud-Teulon, on the cause of 
short sight, i. 118. 
Glanders, communicable between 
man and the lower animals, i. 11. 
Glands, odoriferous, in mammals, ii. 
279, 281. 
Glareola^ double moult in, ii. 80. 
Glomeris limhata, difference of colour 
in the sexes of, i. 340. 
GliOWWORM, female, apterous, i. 255 ; 
luminosity of the, i. 345. 
Gnats, dances of, i. 349. 
Gnu, sexual differences in the colour 
of the, ii. 289. 
Goat, male, wild, falling on his horns, 
ii. 249 ; male, odour emitted by, 
ii. 279 ; male, wild, crest of the, 
ii. 282 ; Berbura, mane, dewlap, 
&c., of the male, ii. 284 ; Kemas, 
sexual difference in the colour of 
the, ii. 289. 
Goats, sexual differences in the horns 
of, i. 283 ; horns of, i. 289, ii. 246 ; 
domestic, sexual differences of, late 
developed, i. 293 ; beards of, ii. 282; 
mode of fighting of, ii. 249, 250. 
Goatsucker, Virginian, pairing of 
the, ii. 49. 
Gobies, nidification of, ii. 20. 
God, want of the idea of, in some 
races of men, i. 65. 
Godron, M., on variability, i. 112; 
on difference of stature, i. 115 ; on 
the want of connexion between 
climate and the colour of the skin, 
i. 241 ; on the odour of the skin, i. 
248 ; on the colour of infants, ii. 318. 
Goldfinch, ii. 56, 85 ; proportion of 
tlie sexes in the, i. 307 ; sexual 
differences of the beak in the, ii. 
39 ; courtship of the, ii. 95. 
Goldfinch, North American, young 
of, ii. 216. 
Gold-Fish, ii. 16. 
Gomplius^ proportions of the sexes 
in, i. 314 ; difference in the sexes 
of, i. 362. 
Goneptcrijx Bliamni, i. 393; sexual 
difference of colour in, i. 409. 
Goodsir, Prof., on the affinity of the 
lancelet to the ascidians, i. 205. 
Goosander, young of, ii. 189. 
Goose, Antarctic, colours of the, ii. 
228. 
Goose, Canada, pairing with a Ber- 
nicle gander, ii. 114. 
Goose, Chinese, knob on the beak of 
the, ii. 129. 
Goose, Egyptian, ii. 46. 
Goose, Sebastopol, plumage of, ii. 74. 
Goose, Snow-, whiteness of the, ii. 
228. 
Goose, Spur-winged, ii. 46. 
Gorilla, ii. 323 ; semi-erect attitude 
of the, i. 142 ; mastoid processes of 
the, i. 143 ; direction of the hair on 
the arms of the, i. 192 ; supposed 
evolution of the, i. 230 ; polygamy 
of the, i. 266, ii. 361, 362; voice 
of the, ii. 276 ; cranium of, ii. 318 ; 
fighting of male, ii. 324. 
Gosse, P. H., on the pugnacity of the 
male Humming-birds, ii. 40. 
Gosse, M., on the inheritance of artifi- 
cial modifications of the skull, ii. 380. 
Gould, B. A., on variation in the 
length of the legs in man, i. 108 ; 
measurements of American soldiers, 
i. 114, 116; on the proportions 
of the body and capacity of the 
lungs in different races of men, i. 
216 ; on the inferior vitality of 
mulattoes, i. 221. 
Gould, J., on the arrival of male 
snipes before the females, i. 260 ; on 
the numerical proportion of the 
sexes in birds, i. 306 ; on Neomor- 
pha, ii. 39; on the species of Eu- 
stephanus^ ii. 39 ; on the Australian 
Musk-duck, ii. 39 ; on the relative 
size of the sexes in Biziura lobata 
and Cincloramphus cruralis, ii. 43; 
on Lobivanellus lobatus, ii. 48 ; on 
the habits of Menura Alberti, ii. 
56 ; on the rarity of song in bril- 
liant birds, ii. 58 ; on Selasphorus 
platycercus, ii. 65 ; on the Bower- 
birds, ii. 69, 102 ; on the ornamental 
plumage of the Humming-birds, ii. 
78 ; on the moulting of the ptar- 
migan, ii. 83; on the display of 
plumage by the male Humming- 
birds, ii. 86 ; on the shyness of 
