WAEBLERS. 
INDEX. 
WESTPHALIA. 
473 
Warblers, Superb, nidification of, 
ii. 169. 
Wariness, acquired by animals, i. 50. 
Warington, R., on the habits of the 
sticklebacks, ii. 2, 20 ; on the bril- 
liant colours of the male stickle- 
back during the breeding season, 
ii. 14. 
Wart-hog, tusks and pads of the, ii. 
265. 
Watchmakers, short-sighted, i. 118. 
Waterhen, ii. 40. 
Waterhouse, C. 0., on blind beetles, 
i. 367 ; on difference of colour in 
the sexes of beetles, i. 367, 
Waterhouse, G. R., on the voice of 
Hylohates agilis, ii. 332. 
Water-ouzel, autumn song of the, 
ii. 54. 
Waterton, C., on the pairing of a 
Canada goose with a Bernicle gan- 
der, ii. 114 ; on hares fighting, ii. 
239,; on the Bell-bird, ii. 79. 
Wattles, disadvantageous to male 
birds in fighting, ii. 98. 
Wealth, influence of, i. 169. 
We ALE, J. Mansel, on a South African 
caterpillar, i. 416. 
Weapons, employed by monkeys, i. 
51 ; use of, i. 137 ; offensive, rf 
males, i. 257 ; of mammals, ii. 241 
et seq. 
Weaver-bird, ii. 54. 
Weaver-birds, rattling of the wings 
of, ii. 62 ; assemblies of, ii. 101. 
Webb, Dr., on the wisdom teeth, i. 
25. 
Wedgwood, Hensleigh, on the origin 
of language, i. 56. 
Weevils, sexual difference in length 
of snout in some, i. 255. 
Weir, Harrison, on the numerical 
proportion of the sexes in pigs and 
rabbits, i. 305 ; on the sexes of 
young pigeons, i. 306 ; on the songs 
of birds, ii. 52 ; on pigeons, ii. 109 ; 
on the dislike of blue pigeons to 
other coloured varieties, ii. 118; 
on the desertion of their mates by 
female pigeons, ii. 119. 
Weir, J. Jenner, on the nightingale 
and blackcap, i. 259 ; on the rela- 
tive sexual maturity of male birds, 
i. 261 ; on female pigeons deserting 
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a feeble mate, i. 262 ; on three 
starlings frequenting the same 
nest, i. 269 ; on the proportion of 
the sexes in Machetes pugnax and 
other birds, i. 306, 307 ; on the 
coloration of the Triphaense^ i. 395 ; 
on the rejection of certain cater- 
pillars by birds, i. 417 ; on sexual 
differences of the beak in the gold- 
finch, ii. 40 ; on a piping bullfinch, 
ii. 52 ; on the object of the night- 
ingale’s song, ii. 52 ; on song-birds, 
ii. 53 ; on the pugnacity of male 
fine-plumaged birds, ii. 93 ; on the 
courtship of birds, ii. 94; on the 
finding of new mates by Peregrine- 
falcons and Kestrels, ii. 104 ; on the 
bullfinch and starling, ii. 105 ; on the 
cause of birds remaining unpaired, 
ii. 107 ; on starlings and parrots 
living in triplets, ii. 107 ; on re- 
cognition of colour by birds, ii. 110 ; 
on hybrid birds, ii. 113 ; on the 
selection of a greenfinch by a female 
canary, ii. 115 ; on a case of rivalry 
of female bullfinches, ii. 121 ; on 
the maturity of the Golden-phea- 
sant, ii. 213. 
Weisbach, Dr., measurement of men 
of different races, i. 216 ; on the 
greater variability of men than of 
women, i. 275; on the relative 
proportions of the body in the 
sexes of different races of man, ii. 
320. 
Welcker, M., on Brachycephaly and 
Dolichocephaly, i. 148; on sexual 
differences in the skull in man, ii. 
317. 
Wells, Dr., on the immunity of 
coloured races from certain poisons, 
i. 243. 
Westring, on the stridulation of Re- 
duvius personatus^ i. 350 ; on the 
stridulating organs of the Coleo- 
ptera, i. 382 ; on sounds produced 
by Cychrus, i. 382 ; on the stridu- 
lation of males of Theridion, i. 339 ; 
on the stridulation of beetles, i. 
379 ; on the stridulation of Omalo- 
plia hrunnea^ i. 381. 
Westphalia, greater proportion of 
female illegitimate children in, i. 
301. 
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