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NECROPHORl/S. 
INDEX. 
NUNEMAYA. 
KecrophoruSj stridulation of, i. 378, 
382. 
Nectarinia , young of, ii. 190. 
Nectarinm, nidifi cation of, ii. 169; 
moulting of the, ii, 83. 
Negro, resemblance of a, to Europe- 
ans, in mental characters, i. 232. 
Negro-women, their kindness to 
Mungo Park, i. 95. 
Negroes, character of, i. 216 ; lice of, 
i. 220 ; blackness of, i. 224, ii. 381 ; 
variability off i. 225, 226 ; immunity 
of, from yellow fever, i. 243 ; dif- 
ference off from Americans, i. 247 ; 
disfigurements of the, ii. 296; colour 
of new-born children of, ii. 318 ; 
comparative beardlessness of, ii. 
321 ; readily become musicians, ii. 
334 ; appreciation of beauty of their 
women by, ii. 344, 346 ; idea of 
beauty among, ii. 350; compres- 
sion of the nose by some, ii. 352. 
Neolithic period, 183. 
Neomorpha , sexual difference of the 
beak in, ii. 39. 
Nephila , i. 337. 
Nests, made by fishes, ii. 19 ; decora- 
tion of, by Humming-birds, ii. 112. 
Neijmeister, on a change of colour in 
pigeons after several moultiugs, i. 
^ 294. 
Neuration, difference off in the two 
sexes of some butterfiies and hym- 
enoptera, i. 345. 
Neuroptera, i. 814, 361. 
ISeuj'othemis. dimorphism in, i. 363. 
New Zealand, expectation by the na- 
tives off of their extinction, i. 240 ; 
practice of tattooing in, ii. 342; 
aversion of natives off to hairs on 
the face, ii. 349; pretty girls en- 
grossed by the chiefs in, ii. 309. 
Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of 
the male bustard, ii. 58; on the 
difference between the females of 
two species of Oxynotus , ii. 193 • 
on the habits of the phularope, 
dotterel, and godwit, ii. 204. 
Newts, ii, 24. 
Nicholson, Dr., on the non-immunity 
of dark Europeans from yellow 
fever, i. 245. 
Nictitating membrane, i. 23, 207. 
Nidieication, of fishes, ii. 19 ; relation 
off to colour, ii. 167, 172; 
British birds, ii. 169. 
Night-heron, cries of the, ii. 51. 
Nightingale, arrival of the malff 
before the female, i. 259 ; object of 
the song of the, ii. 52. 
Nightingales, new mates found by> 
ii. 105. 
NigiitjaPv, selection of a mate by the 
female, ii. 116; Australian, sex eS 
off ii. 206 ; coloration of the, ii* 
226. 
Nightjars, noise made by some male? 
with their wings, ii. 62 ; elongated 
feathers in, ii. 73, 97. 
Nilghau, sexual differences of colon 1 
in the, ii. 287. 
Nilsson, Prof., on the resemblance °f 
stone arrow-heads from vari° 113 
places, i. 233 ; on the development 
of the horns in the reindeer, i. 285- 
NirPLES, absence off in Monotremata, 
i. 209. 
Nttzsch, C. L., on the down of bird^ 
ii. 80. 
Nocture, brightly-coloured beneath? 
i. 397. 
Noctuid/E, coloration off I. 394. 
.Nordmann, A., on Tetrao urogalloi & s » 
ii. 100. 
Nomadic habits, unfavourable 
human progress, i. 167. 
Norway, numerical proportion 0 
male and female births in, i. 30l* 
Nose, resemblance of, in man and the 
apes, i. 192 ; piercing and orna' 
mentation of the, ii. 341 ; flatten* 
ing of the, ii. 352 ; very flat, n° 
admired in negroes, ii. 350. * 
Nott and (Hidden, on the features 0 
Ramoses 11., i. 217 ; on the feature 5 
of Aniunoph lit., 1.218; on ski"" 
from Brazilian cares, i. 218 ; on tiu 
immunity of negroes and mulatto®* 
from yellow fever, i. 243 ; on "V 
deformation of the skull am 0113 
American tribes, ii. 352. 
Num BRANCH molluscs, bright colour’ 
of, i. 326. 
Numerals, Roman, i. 182. 
Nunemata, natives of, bearded 1 • 
322, 349. 
