MACRORHINUS. 
INDEX. 
MANTELL. 
445 
hairs of the throat of the stag, ii. ! 
268 ; on the bellowing of stags, ii. i 
274. 
Macrorhinus prohoscideus, structure 
of the nose of, ii. 278. | 
Magpie, power of speech of, i. 59 ; 1 
stealing bright objects, ii. 112; 
nuptial assemblies of, ii. 102 ; new I 
mates found by, ii. 103 ; young of | 
. the, ii. 209 ; coloration of the, ii. 
230. I 
]\Iagpies, vocal organs of the, ii. 55. ; 
Maillard, M., on the proportion of j 
the sexes in a species of Papilio from 
Bourbon, i. 310. 
Maine, Mr., on the absorption of one 
tribe by another, i. 159 ; on the 
want of a desire for improvement, 
i. 166. 
Makalolo, perforation of the upper 
lip by the, ii. 341. 
Malar bone, abnormal division of, 
in man, i. 124. 
Malay, Archipelago, marriage-cus- 
toms of the savages of the, ii. 373. 
Malays, line of separation between 
the Papuans and the, i. 218 ; gene- 
ral beardlessness of the, ii. 321 ; 
staining of the teeth among, ii. 
339 ; aversion of some, to hairs on 
the face, ii. 349. 
Malays and Papuans, contrasted cha- 
racters of, i. 216. 
Male animals, struggles of, for the 
possession of the females, i. 259, 
260 ; eagerness of, in courtship, i. 
272, 273; generally more modified 
than female, i. 272, 275; differ in 
the same way from females and 
young, i. 285. 
Male characters, developed in fe- 
males, i. 280 ; transfer of, to female 
birds, ii. 193. 
Male, sedentary, of a hymenopterous 
parasite, i. 272. 
Malefactors, i. 172. 
Males, presence of rudimentary fe- 
male organs in, i. 208. 
Males and females, comparative mor- 
tality of, while young, i. 264, 276 ; 
comparative numbers of, i. 261, 
263. 
Malherbe, on the woodpeckers, ii. 
174. 
Malthus, T., on the rate of increase 
of population, i. 131, 132, 134. 
Malurid^, nidification of the, ii. 
169. 
Malurus, young of, ii. 216. 
Mammae, i. 254 ; rudimentary, in male 
mammals, i. 17, 30, 208, 209, 210 ; 
supernumerary, in women, i. 125 ; 
of male human subject, i. 130. 
Mammalia, Prof. Owen’s classification 
of, i. 187 ; genealogy of the, i. 
203. 
Mammals, secondary sexual charac- 
ters of, ii. 239 ; weapons of, ii. 
241 ; recent and tertiary, compa- 
rison of cranial capacity of, i. 146 ; 
relative size of the sexes of, ii. 
260 ; pursuit of female, by the 
males, i. 272 ; parallelism of, with 
birds in secondary sexual charac- 
ters, ii. 297 ; voices of, used espe- 
cially during the breeding season, 
ii. 331. 
Man, variability of, i. 108 ; errone- 
ously regarded as more domesti- 
cated than other animals, i. Ill ; 
definitive origin of, i. 235 ; migra- 
tions of, i. 135 ; wide distribution 
of, i. 137 ; causes of the nakedness 
of, i., 149 ; supposed physical infe- 
riority of, i. 156 ; numerical pro- 
portions of the sexes in, i. 264 ; a 
member of the Catarrhine group, 
i. 198 ; early progenitors of, i. 206 ; 
secondary sexual characters of, ii. 
316 ; primeval condition of, ii. 367. 
Mandans, correlation of colour and 
texture of hair in the, i. 248. 
Mandible, left, enlarged in the male 
of Taphroderes distorius, i. 344. 
Mandibles, use of the, in Ammo- 
phila,, i. 342 ; large, of Corijdalis 
co7imtus, i. 342 ; large, of male 
Lucanus elaplms, i. 342. 
Mandrill, number of caudal verte- 
brae in the, i. 150; colours of the 
male, ii. 292, 296, 310. 
Mantegazza, Prof., on the orna- 
ments of savages, ii. 338 et seqq. ; 
on the beardlessness of the New Zea- 
landers, ii. 349 ; on the exaggera- 
tion of natural characters by man, 
ii. 351. 
Mantell, W., on the engrossment of 
