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DEER. 
INDEX, 
DISTRIBUTION. 
~88 ; horns of a, in course of modi- 
fication, ii. 255. 
I^eer, Axis, sexual difference in the 
Colour of the, ii. 290. 
Deer, tallow, different coloured herds 
of, ii. 295. 
Deer, Mantnhurian. ii. 303. 
I>eer, Virginian, ii. .303; colour of 
the, not affected by castration, ii. 
288 ; colours of, ii. *289. 
Deerhound, Scotch, greater sire of 
the male, i. 293, ii. 260. 
Defensive organs of mammals, ii. 
263. 
De Geer, C., on a female spider de- 
stroying a male, i. 339. 
Disk ay, Dr., on the bladder-nose seal, 
ii. 278. 
Demerara, yellow fever in, i. 243. 
Ikndroeygn- 1 , ii. 185. 
Dmdrophila frontalis, young of, ii. 220. 
Disnnv, H., on the lice of domestic 
animals, i. 219. 
Dermestes murinus, stridulation of, i. 
379. 
Descent traced through the mother 
alone, ii. 359. 
Deserts, protective colouring of ani- 
mals inhabiting, ii. 224. 
Desmarest, on the absence of sub- 
orbital pits in Antilope subr/ttltu - 
^80 ; on the whiskers of 
Macacus, ii. 283 ; on the colour of 
the opossum, ii. 286 ; on the colours 
Ot the sexes of Mm minutiis, ii. 286 ; 
on the colouring of the ocelot, ii. 
1 i °n the colours of seals, ii. 
287; on Antilope emma, ii. 289; 
on the colours of goats, ii. 290 ; on 
sexual difference nf colour in At,k s 
marginaim, ii. 291 ; on the man- 
drill, ii. 293; on Macctcus > 'nv,mol~ 
r/us, ii. 318. 
Desmoulins, on the number of species 
oi man, i. 22b ; on the musk-deer 
ii. 281. ’ 
Desor, on the imitation of man by 
monkeys, i. 44. 
Despise, P., on criminals destitute 
of conscience, i. 92. 
Development, embryonic, of man i. 
14, 16; correlated, ii. 130. 
Devil, not believed in by the Fue- 
gians, i. 67. 
Devil-crab, i. 332. 
Devonian, fossil insect from the, i. 
360. 
Dewlaps, of cattle and antelopes, ii. 
284. 
Dtad&ma, sexual differences of colour- 
ing in the species of, i. .888. 
Thndema anomala , mimickrv by the 
female of, i. 413. 
Diadema bolina , i. 413. 
Diamond-beetles, bright colours of, 
i. 367. 
Diastema, occurrence of, in man, i. 
126. 
Diasttltd^e, proportion of the sexes 
in, i. 315. 
Diodorus, on the absence of beard in 
the natives of Ceylon, ii. 321. 
Dtryurui, racket-shaped feathers in, 
ii. 73; nidifieation of, ii. 167. 
Dicrums umcrocrrcus, change of plu- 
mage in, ii. 179. 
Didelphis opossum , sexual difference 
in the colour of, ii. 286. 
Differences, comparative, between 
different species of birds of the same 
sex, ii. 192. 
Digits, supernumerary, more fre- 
quent in men than in women, i* 
276; supernumerary, inheritance 
of, i. 285 ; supernumerary, early de- 
velopment of, i. 292. 
Dimorphism in females of water- 
beetles, i. 343 ; in JS'eurothcmis and 
A : /non, i. 363. 
Dipelints Canto ri, sexual differences 
of, i. 369. 
Diplopotu, prehensile limbs of the 
male, i. 340. 
flipsas cynodon, sexual difference in 
the colour of, ii. 29. 
Diitera, i. 348. 
Disease, generated by the contact of 
distinct peoples, i. 239. 
Diseases common to man and the 
lower animals, i. 11 ; difference of 
liability to, in different races of 
mon, i. 216; new, effects of, upon 
savages, i. 238 ; sexually limited, 
i. 292. 
Display, coloration of Lepidoptera 
for, i. 395; of plumage by male 
birds, ii. 86, 96. 
Distribution, wide, of man, i. 137 j 
