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STAUNTON. 
INDEX. 
SWINHOE. 
Staunton, Sir G., hatred of indecency 
a modern virtue, i. 96. 
Stealing of bright objects by birds, 
ii. 112. 
Stubbing, T. E., on the nakedness of 
the human body, ii. 375. 
Stemmatopus^ ii. 278. 
Stenobothrus pratoruiUy stridulating 
organs of, i. 357. 
Sterility, general, of sole daughters, 
i. 170 ; when crossed, a distinctive 
character of species, i. 214. 
Sterna, seasonal change of plumage in, 
ii. 228. 
Stickle-back, polygamous, i. 271 ; 
male, courtship of the, ii. 2 ; male, 
brilliant colouring of, during the 
breeding season, ii. 14 ; nidification 
of the, ii. 20. 
Sticks used as implements and wea- 
pons by monkeys, i. 51. 
Sting in bees, i. 254. 
Stokes, Capt., on the habits of the 
great Bower-bird, ii. 70. 
Stonechat, young of the, ii. 220. 
Stone implements, difficulty of 
making, i. 138 ; as traces of extinct 
tribes, i. 237. 
Stones, used by monkeys for break- 
ing hard fruits and as missiles, i. 
140 ; piles of, i. 233. 
Stork, black, sexual differences in the 
bronchi of the, ii. 60 ; red beak of 
the, ii. 227. 
Storks, ii. 226, 230 ; sexual differ- 
ence in the colour of the eyes of, ii. 
128. 
Strange, Mr., on the Satin Bower- 
bird, ii. 69. 
Stretch, Mr., on the numerical pro- 
portion in the sexes of chickens, i. 
306. 
Strepsiceros kudu, horns of, ii. 255 ; 
markings of, ii. 300. 
Stridulation, by males of Theridion, 
i. 339 ; of the Orthoptera and 
Homoptera discussed, i. 360 ; of 
beetles, i. 378. 
Stripes, retained throughout groups 
of birds, ii. 131 ; disappearance of, 
in adult mammals, ii. 303. 
Strix flammea, ii. 105. 
Structure, existence of unservice- 
able modifications of, i. 153. 
Struggle for existence, in man, f. 
180, 185. 
Struthers, Dr., on the occurrence of 
the supra-condyloid foramen in the 
humerus of man, i. 28. 
Sturnella ludoviciana, pugnacity of 
the male, ii. 51. 
Sturnus vulgaris, ii. 105. 
Sub-species, i. 227. 
Suffering, in strangers, indifference 
of savages to, i. 94. 
Suicide, i. 172; formerly not re- 
garded as a crime, i. 94; rarely 
practised among the lowest savages, 
i. 94. 
SuiDiE, stripes of young, ii. 184. 
Sumatra, compression of the nose by . 
the Malays of, ii. 352. 
Sumner, Archb., man alone capable 
of progressive improvement, i. 49. 
Sun-birds, nidification of, ii. 169. 
Superstitions, i. 182 ; prevalence- 
of, i. 99. 
Superstitious customs, i. 68. 
Superciliary ridge in man, ii. 316, 
318. 
Supernumerary digits, more fre- 
quent in men than in women, i. 
276; inheritance of, i. 285; early 
development of, i. 292. 
Supra-condyloid foramen in the 
early progenitors of man, i. 206. 
Suspicion, prevalence of, among ani- 
mals, i. 39. 
SuLiVAN, Sir B. J., on two stallions 
attacking a third, ii. 241. 
Swallow-tail Butterfly, i. 393. 
Swallows deserting their young, i, 
84, 90. 
Swan, black, red beak of the, ii. 
227 ; black-necked, ii. 230 ; white, 
young of, ii. 211 ; wild, trachea of 
the, ii. 59. 
Swans, ii. 226, 230 ; young, ii. 208. 
SwAYSLAND, Mr., Oil the arrival of 
migratory birds, i. 259. 
SwiNHOE, E., on the common rat in 
Formosa and China, i. 50 ; on the 
sounds produced by the male Hoopoe, 
ii. 62 ; on Dicrurus macrocercus and 
the Spoonbill, ii. 179 ; on the young 
of Ardeola, ii. 190 ; on the habits of 
Turnix, ii. 202 ; on the habits of 
Bhynchsea hengalensis, ii. 203 ; on 
