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PEACOCK. 
INDEX. 
PHEASANT. 
the, ii. 135 ; inconvenience of long 
tail of the, to the female, ii. 154, 
164, 165; continued increase of 
beauty of the, ii. 216. 
Peacock -BUTTERFLY, i. 392. 
Peafowl, preference of females for a 
particular male, ii. 120; first ad- 
vances made by the female, ii. 
120. 
Pediculi of domestic animals and man, 
i. 219. 
Pedigree of man, i. 213. 
Fedionomus torquataSy sexes of, ii. 
201 . 
Peewit, wing-tubercles of the male, 
ii. 48. 
Pelagic animals, transparency of, i. 
323. 
Felecanus erythrorhynchuSy horny crest 
on the beak of the male, during the 
breeding season, ii. 80. 
Felecanus onocrotalus, spring plumage 
of, ii. 85. 
Pelele, ii. 341. 
Pelican, blind, fed by his compa- 
nions, i. 77 ; young, guided by old 
birds, i. 77 ; pugnacity of the male, 
ii. 43. 
Pelicans, fishing in concert, i. 75. 
Felohius Hermanniy stridulation of, i. 
380, 382. 
Pelvis, alteration of, to suit the erect 
attitude of man, i. 143 ; differences 
of the, in the sexes in man, ii. 
317. 
Fenelope nigrUy sound produced by the 
male, ii. 64. 
Pennant, on the battles of seals, ii. 
240 ; on the bladder-nose seal, ii. 
278. 
FentlWy antennal cushions of the male, 
i. 343. 
Perch, brightness of male, during 
breeding season, ii. 13. 
Peregrine Falcon, new mate found 
by, ii. 104. 
Period of variability, relation of, to 
sexual selection, i. 296. 
Periodicity, vital. Dr. Lay cock on, 
i. 12. 
Periods, lunar, followed by functions 
in man and animals, i. 12, 212. 
Periods of life, inheritance at cor- 
responding, i. 280, 285. 
Ferisoreus canadensis, young of, ii- 
209. 
Feritrichia, difference of colour in the- 
sexes of a species of, i. 367. 
Periwinkle, i. 324. 
Fernis cristata, ii. 126. 
Perseverance, a characteristic of' 
man, ii. 328. 
Persians, said to be improved by in- 
termixture with Georgians and Cir- 
cassians, ii. 357. 
Personnat, M., on Bombyx Tama- 
mai, i. 310. 
Peruvians, civilisation of the, not 
foreign, i. 183. 
Petrels, colours of, ii. 230. 
Fetrocincla cyanea, young of, ii. 219. 
Fetronia, ii. 212. 
Pfeiffer, Ida, on Javanese ideas of" 
beauty, ii. 347. 
Fhacochccrus mthiopicuSy tusks and 
pads of, ii. 265. 
Phalanger, Vulpine, black varieties 
of the, ii. 294. 
Fhalaropus fulicariuSy ii. 203. 
Fhalaropus hyperboreus, ii. 203. 
Fhanseusy i. 373. 
Fhanseus carnifex, variation of the 
horns of the male, i. 370. 
Fhanseus faunus, sexual differences of^ 
i. 369. 
Fhanseus lancifer, i. 370. 
Fhasgonura viridissimay stridulation. 
of, i. 354, 356. 
Fhasianus Scemmerringiiy ii. 157. 
Fhasianus versicolor y ii. 89. 
Fhasianus Wallichiiy ii. 93, 196. 
Phasmid^, mimickry of leaves by the, 
i. 414. . 
Pheasant, polygamous, i. 269 ; pro- 
duction of hybrids with the com- 
mon fowl, ii. 122 ; and black grouse, 
hybrids of, ii. 113 ; immature 
plumage of the, ii. 188. 
Pheasant, Argus, ii. 72, 181 ; dis- 
play of plumage by the male, ii. 
91 ; ocellated spots of the, ii. 134, 
141 ; gradation of characters in 
the, ii. 141. 
Pheasant, Blood-, ii. 46. 
Pheasant, Cheer, ii. 93, 195. 
Pheasant, Eared, i. 290; ii. 93, 195 - 
sexes alike in the, ii. 178; lengths 
of the tail in the, ii. 166. 
