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INDEX. 
PHEASANT. 
the, ii. 135 ; inconvenience of long j 
tail of the, to the female, ii. 154, | 
164, 165 ; continued increase of 
beauty of the, ii. 216. 
Peacock-butterfly, i. 392. 
Peafowl, preference of females for a 
particular male, ii. 120 ; first ad- 
vances made by the female, ii. 
120. 
Pediculi of domestic animals and man, 
i. 219. 
Pedigree of man, i. 213. 
Pedionomus torquatas , sexes of, ii. 
201 . 
Peewit, wing-tubercles of the male, 
ii, 48. 
Pelagic animals, transparency of, i. 
323. 
Pelecanus erythrorhynchus , horny crest 
on the beak of the male, during the 
breeding season, ii. 80. 
Pelecanus onocrotalus , spring plumage 
of, ii. 85. 
Pelele, ii. 341. 
Pelican, blind, fed by his compa- 
nions, i. 77 ; young, guided by old 
birds, i, 77 ; pugnacity of the male, 
ii. 43. 
Pelicans, fishing in concert, i. 75. 
Pelobius Ilermanni. stridulation of, i. 
380, 382. 
Pelvis, alteration of, to suit the erect 
attitude of man, i. 143 ; differences 
of the, in the sexes in man, ii. 
317. 
Penelope nigra, sonnd produced by the 
male, ii. 64. 
PENNANT, on the battles of seals, ii. 
240; on the bladder-nose seal, ii. 
278. 
Penthe, antennal cushions of the male, 
i. 343. 
Perch, brightness of male, during 
breeding season, ii. 13. 
Peregrine Falcon, new mate found 
by, ii. 104. 
Period of variability, relation of, to 
sexual selection, i. 296. 
Periodicity, vital, Dr. Laycock on, 
i. 12. 
Periods, lunar, followed by functions 
in man and animals, i. 12, 212. 
Periods of life, inheritance at cor- 
responding, i. 280, 285. 
Perisoreus canadensis, young of, n* 
209. 
Peritrichia , difference of colour in the 
sexes of a species of, i. 367. 
Periwinkle, i. 324. 
Pernis cristata, ii. 126. 
Perseverance, a characteristic of 
man, ii. 328. 
Persians, said to be improved by in- 
termixture with Georgians and Cir- 
cassian^ ii. 357. 
Personnat, M., on Bombyx ¥amci~ 
mat , i. 310. 
Peruvians, civilisation of the, not 
foreign, i. 183. 
Petrels, colours of, ii. 230. 
Petrocincla cyanea, young of, ii. 219. 
Petronia , ii. 212. 
Pfeiffer, Ida, on Javanese ideas of 
beauty, ii, 347. 
Phacochccrus sathiopicus, tusks and 
pads of, ii. 265. 
Piialanger, Vulpine, black varieties 
of the, ii. 294. 
Phalaropus fulicarius, ii. 203. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus , ii. 203. 
Phanmus , i, 373. 
Phanwus carnifex , variation of the 
horns of the male, i. 370. 
Phan sens faunus, sexual differences of, 
i. 369. 
Phanmus lancifcr , i. 370. 
Phasqonura viridissima, stridulation 
of, i. 354, 356. 
Phasianus Scemmerringit, ii. 157. 
Phasianus versicolor , ii. 89. 
Phasianus Wallichii, ii. 93, 196. 
PuASMTiLE, mirnickrv of leaves by the, 
i. 414. 
Pheasant, polygamous, i. 269 ; pro- 
duction of hybrids with the com- 
mon fowl, ii. 122 ; and black grouse, 
hybrids of, ii. 113 ; immature 
plumage of the, ii. 188. 
Pheasant, Argus, ii. 72, 181; dis- 
play of plumage by the male, u* 
91 ; ocellated spots of the, ii. 1^4, 
141 ; gradation of characters 
the, ii. 141. 
Pheasant, Blood-, ii. 46. 
Pheasant, Cheer, ii. 93, 195. 
Pheasant, Eared, i. 290; ii. 93, 1 9j ’ 
sexes alike in the, ii. 178; lengt 1 
of the tail in the, ii. 166. 
