MACRORIIINUS. 
INDEX. 
MANTELL. 
445 
hairs of the throat of the stag, ii. 
268 ; on the bellowing of stags, ii. 
274. 
Macrorhinus proboscides, structure j 
of the nose of, ii. 278. 
Magpie, power of speech of, i. 59 ; 
stealing bright objects, ii. 112; 
nuptial assemblies of, ii. 102 ; new 
mates found by, ii. 103; young of 
the, ii. 209 ; coloration of the, ii. 
230. 
Magpies, vocal organs of the, ii. 55. 
Maillard, M., on the proportion of 
the sexes in a species of Papilio from 
Bourbon, i. 310. 
Maine, Mr., on the absorption of one j 
tribe by another, i. 169; on the ' 
want of a desire for improvement, 
i. 166. 
Makalolo, perforation of the upper 
lip by the, ii. 341. 
Malar bone, abnormal division of, 
in man, i. 124. 
Malay, Archipelago, marriage-cus- 
toms of the savages of the, ii. 373. 
Malays, line of separation between 
the Papuans and the, i. 218 ; gene- 
ral beardlessness of the, ii, 821 ; 
staining of the teeth among, ii. 
339 ; aversion of some, to hairs on 
the face, ii. 349. 
Malays and Papuans, contrasted cha- 
racters of, i. 216. 
Male animals, struggles of, for the 
possesion of the females, i. 269, 
260; eagerness of, iu courtship, i. ( 
272, 273 ; generally more modified i 
than female, i. 272, 275; differ in 
the same way from females and 
young, i. 285. 
Male characters, developed in fe- 
males, i. 280 ; transfer of, to female 
birds, ii. 193. 
Male, sedentary, of a hymenopterous 
parasite, i. 272. 
Malefactors, i. 172. 
Males, presence of rudimentary fe- 
male organs in, i. 208. 
Males and females, comparative mor- 
tality of, while young, i. 264, 276; j 
comparative numbers of, i. 261, 1 
263. 
Malherbe, on the woodpeckers, ii. 1 
174. 
Maltiius, T., on the rate of increase 
of population, i. 131, 132, 134. 
M altjridas, nidification of the, ii. 
1G9. 
Malunis, young of, ii. 216, 
Mammas, i. 254 ; rudimeutary, in male 
mammals, i. 17, 30, 208, 209, 210 ; 
supernumerary, in women, i. 125 ; 
of male human subject, i. 130. 
Mammalia, Prof. Owen’s classification 
of, i. 187 ; genealogy of the, i. 
203. 
Mammals, secondary sexual charac- 
ters of, ii. 239 ; weapons of, ii. 
241 ; recent and tertiary, compa- 
rison of cranial capacity of, i. 146 ; 
relative size of the sexes of, ii. 
260; pursuit of female, by the 
males, i. 272 ; parallelism of, with 
birds in secondary sexual charac- 
ters, ii. 297 ; voices of, used espe- 
cially during the breeding season, 
ii. 331. 
Man, variability of, i. 108; errone- 
ously regarded as more domesti- 
cated than other animals, i. Ill ; 
definitive origin of, i, 235 ; migra- 
tions of, i. 135 ; wide distribution 
of, i. 137 ; causes of the nakedness 
of, i., 149 ; supposed physical infe- 
riority of, i. 156 ; numerical pro- 
portions of the sexes in, i. 264 ; a 
member of the Catarrh iue group, 
i. 198; early progenitors of, i. 206; 
secondary sexual characters of, ii. 
316 ; primeval condition of, ii. 367. 
Mandans, correlation of colour and 
texture of hair in the, i. 248. 
Mandible, left, enlarged in the male 
of Tap hr ochres distort ns, l 344. 
Mandibles, use of the, in Ammo- 
phila, i. 342; large, of Corydalis 
cornuius, i. 842 ; large, of male 
Lecanus elaphus , i. 342. 
Mandrill, number of caudal verte- 
brae in the, i. 150; colours of the 
male, ii. 292, 296, 810. 
Mantegazza, Prof., on the orna- 
ments of savages, ii. 338 <-t seqq. ; 
on the beardless n ess of the New Zea- 
landers, ii. 349 ; on the exaggera- 
tion of natural characters by man, 
ii. 351. 
Mantell, W. } on the engrossment of 
