450 NECROPHOliUS. 
INDEX. 
NUNEMAYA. 
JSfecrophorus, stridulation of, i. 378, 
382. 
Nectarinia, young of, ii. 190. 
Nectariniaiy nidification of, ii. 169; 
moulting of the, ii. 83. 
Negro, resemblance of a, to Europe- 
ans, in mental characters, i. 232. 
Negro-women, their kindness to 
Mungo Park, i. 95. 
Negroes, character of, i. 216 ; lice of, 
i. 220; blackness of, i. 224, ii. 381; 
variability of, i. 225, 226 ; immunity 
of, from yellow fever, i. 243 ; dif- 
ference of, from Americans, i. 247 ; 
disfigurements of the, ii. 296 ; colour 
of new-born children of, ii. 318 ; 
comparative beardlessness of, ii. 
321 ; readily become musicians, ii. 
334; appreciation of beauty of their 
women by, ii. 344, 346 ; idea of 
beauty among, ii. 350 ; compres- 
sion of the nose by some, ii. 352. 
Neolithic period, 183. 
Neomorpha, sexual difference of the 
beak in, ii. 39. 
Nephila, i. 337. 
Nests, made by fishes, ii. 19 ; decora- 
tion of, by Humming-birds, ii. 112. 
Neumeister, on a change of colour in 
pigeons after several moultings, i. 
294. 
Neuration, difference of, in the two 
sexes of some butterflies and hym- 
enoptera, i. 345. 
Neuroptera, i. 314, 361. 
Neurothemis, dimorphism in, i. 363. 
New Zealand, expectation by the na- 
tives of, of their extinction, i. 240"; 
practice of tattooing in, ii. 342 ; 
aversion of natives of, to hairs on 
the face, ii. 349 ; pretty girls en- 
grossed by the chiefs in, ii. 369. 
Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of 
the male bustard, ii. 58 ; on the 
difference between the females of 
two species of Oxynotus, ii. 193 ; 
on the habits of the phalarope, 
dotterel, and god wit, ii. 204. 
Newts, ii. 24. 
Nicholson, Dr., on the non-immunity 
of dark Europeans from yellow 
fever, i. 245. 
Nictitating membrane, i. 23, 207. 
Nidification, of fishes, ii. 19 ; relation 
of, to colour, ii. 167, 172; of 
British birds, ii. 169. 
Night-heron, cries of the, ii. 51. 
Nightingale, arrival of the male 
before the female, i. 259 ; object of 
the song of the, ii. 52. 
Nightingales, new mates found by, 
ii. 105. 
Nightjar, selection of a mate by the 
female, ii. 116; Australian, sexes 
of, ii. 206 ; coloration of the, ii. 
226. 
Nightjars, noise made by some male, 
with their wings, ii. 62 ; elongated 
feathers in, ii. 73, 97. 
Nilghau, sexual differences of colour 
in the, ii. 287. 
Nii^son, Prof, on the resemblance of 
stone arrow-heads from various 
places, i. 233 ; on the development 
of the horns in the reindeer, i. 288. 
Nipples, absence of, in Monotremata, 
i. 209. 
Nitzsch, C. L., on the down of birds, 
ii. 80. 
Noctu^, brightly-coloured beneath, 
i. 397. 
Noctuidje, coloration of, i. 394. 
Nordmann, a., on Tetrao urogalloides^ 
ii. 100. 
Nomadic habits, unfavourable to 
human progress, i. 167. 
Norway, numerical proportion of 
male and female births in, i. 301. 
Nose, resemblance of, in man and the 
apes, i. 192 ; piercing and orna- 
mentation of the, ii. 341 ; flatten- 
ing of the, ii. 352 ; very flat, not 
admired in negroes, ii. 350. 
Nott and Gliddon, on the features of 
Rameses II., i. 217 ; on the features 
of Amunoph III., i. 218 ; on skulk 
from Brazilian caves, i. 218 ; on the 
immunity of negroes and mulattoes 
from yellow fever, i. 243 ; on the 
deformation of the skull among 
American tribes, ii. 352. 
Nudibranch mollusca, bright colours 
of, i. 326. 
Numerals, Roman, i. 182. 
Nunemaya, natives of, bearded ii. 
322, 349. 
