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MONTAGU. 
INDEX. 
MURIE. 
correlation of, i. 130 ; transmission 
of, i. 224. 
Montagu, G., on the habits of the 
black and red grouse, i. 269 ; on 
the pugnacity of the rufl', ii. 41 ; on 
the singing of birds, ii. 52 ; on the 
double moult of the male pintail, 
ii. 84. 
Monteiro, Mr., on Bucorax abys- 
sinicus, ii. 72. 
Montes de Oca, M., on the pug- 
nacity of male Humming-birds, ii. 
40. 
Monticola cyanca, ii. 172. 
Monuments, as traces of extinct 
tribes, i. 237. 
Moose, battles of, ii. 240; horns of 
the, an incumbrance, ii. 259. 
Moral and instinctive impulses, al- 
liance of, i. 88. 
Moral faculties, their influence on 
natural selection in man, i. 158. 
Moral rules, distinction between the 
higher and lower, i. 100. 
Moral sense, origin of the, i. 102 ; 
so-called, derived from the social 
instincts, i. 97, 98. 
Moral tendencies, inheritance of, i. 
102 . 
Morality, supposed to be founded in 
selfishness, i. 97 ; test of, the 
general welfare of the community, 
i. 98 ; gradual rise of, i. 103 ; in- 
fluence of a high standard of, i. 
166. 
Morgan, L. H., on the Beaver, i. 37 ; 
on the reasoning powers of the 
Beaver, i. 46 ; on the forcible 
capture of wives, i. 182 ; on the 
castoreum of the beaver, ii. 279 ; 
marriage unknown in primeval 
times, ii. 359 ; on Polyandry, ii. 
365. 
Morris, F. 0., on hawks feeding an 
orphan nestling, ii. 107. 
Mortality, comparative, of females 
and males, i. 264, 276, 302. 
Morton, on the number of species of 
man, i. 226. 
Moschus moschtferus, odoriferous or- 
gans of, ii. 280. 
Motacillfe^ Indian, young of, ii. 190. 
.Moths, i. 394 ; absence of mouth in | 
some male, i. 254 ; apterous female, I 
i. 255 ; male, prehensile use of the 
tarsi by, i. 256 ; male, attracted by 
females, i. 311 ; coloration of, i. 
397 ; sexual differences of colour 
. in, i. 398. 
Motmot, racket-shaped feathers in 
the tail of a, ii. 73. 
Moult, double, ii. 181 ; double an- 
nual, in birds, ii. 80. 
Moulting of birds, ii. 214. 
Moults, partial, ii. 83. 
Moustache-monkey, colours of the, 
ii. 291, 311. 
Moustaches, in monkeys, i. 192. 
Mud-turtle, long claws of the male, 
ii. 28. 
Mulattoes, persistent fertility of, i. 
221 ; immunity of, from yellow 
fever, i. 243. 
Mule, sterility and strong vitality of 
the, i. 221. 
Mules, rational, i. 48. 
Muller, Ferd., on the Mexicans and 
Peruvians, i. 183. 
Muller, Fritz, on astomatous males 
of Tifnais, i. 255 ; on the disappear- 
ance of spots and stripes in adult 
mammals, ii. 305 ; on the propor- 
tions of the sexes in some Crus- 
tacea, i. 315; on secondary sexual 
characters in various Crustaceans, 
i. 328 et seqq. ; on the luminous 
larva of a beetle, i. 345 ; musical 
contest between male Cicadfe, i. 
351 ; on tlie sexual maturity of 
young amphipod Crustacea, ii. 215. 
Muller, .1., on the nictitating mem- 
brane and semilunar fold, i. 23. 
Muller, Max, on the origin of lan- 
guage, i. 56 ; struggle for life 
among the words, &;c., of languages, 
i. 60. 
Muller, S., on the Banteng, ii. 290 ; 
on the colours of Semnopithecus 
chrysomelas, ii. 291. 
Muntjac-deer, weapons of the, ii. 
257. 
Murie, J., on the reduction of or- 
gans, i. 18 ; on the ears of the 
Lemuroidea, i. 23 ; on variability 
of the muscles in the Lemuroidea, 
i. 128, 136; basal caudal vertebne 
of Macaciis inornatus imbedded in 
the body, i. 151; on differences in 
