PHEASANT. 
INDEX. 
PLAIN. 
455 
Pheasant, Golden, display of plumage 
by the male, ii. 89 ; sex of young, 
ascertained by pulling out head- 
feathers, ii. 214; age of mature 
plumage in the, ii. 218. 
Pheasant, Kalij, drumming of the 
male, ii. 62. 
Pheasant, Reeve’s, length of the tail 
in, ii. 166. 
Pheasant, Silver, sexual coloration of 
the, ii. 228 ; triumphant male, de- 
posed on account of spoiled plumage, 
ii. 120. 
Pheasant, Sceramerring’s, ii. 156, 
166. 
Pheasant, Tragopan, ii. 72; display 
of plumage by the male, ii. 91 ; 
markings of the sexes of the, ii. 1 
134. 
Pheasants, period of acquisition of ■ 
male characters in the family of 
the, i. 290 ; proportion of sexes in 
chicks of, i. 306 ; length of the tail 
in, ii. 156, 164, 166. 
Philodromus, i. 337. 
Philters, worn by women, ii. 344. 
Phoca grcenlandica, sexual difference 
in the coloration of, ii. 287. 
Phrmicnra ruticilla, ii. 105. 
Phosphorescence of insects, i. 345. 
PiiKYGANiDAfi, copulation of distinct 
species of, i. 342. 
Phnjniscus nigricans , ii. 25. 
Physical inferiority, supposed, of 
man, i. 156. 
Pickering, on the number of species 
of man, i. 226. 
Picton, J. A., on the soul of man, ii. 
395. 
Picus auratus , ii. 43. 
Pierid./E, mimiekry by female, i. 413. 
Pieris , i. 393. 
Pigeon, carrier, late development of 
the wattle in, i. 293; domestic, 
breeds and subbreeds of, ii. 178; 
pouter, late development of the 
crop in, i. 293 ; female, deserting a 
weakened mate, i. 262. 
Pigeons, nestling, fed by the secretion 
of the crop of both parents, i. 210; 
changes of plumage in, i. 281 ; 
transmission of sexual peculiarities 
in, i. 283 ; changing colour after se- 
veral moultings, i. 294 ; numerical 
proportion of the sexes in, i. 306 ; 
cooing of, ii. 60; variations in 
plumage of, ii. 74; display of plu- 
mage by male, ii. 96 ; local memory 
of ii. 109; antipathy of female, to 
certain males, ii. 118; pairing of, 
ii. 118, 119; profligate male and 
female, ii. 119; wing-bars and tail- 
feathers of ii. 131; supposititious 
breed of, ii. 155 ; pouter and carrier, 
peculiarities of predominant in males, 
ii. 158; nidification of, ii. 168 ; im- 
mature plumage of the, ii. 188;. 
Australian, ii. 175; Belgian, with 
black-streaked males, i. 285, 293; 
ii. 157. 
Pigs, origin of the improved breeds of, 
i. 230 ; numerical proportion of the 
sexes in, i. 305; stripes of young, ii. 
184, 303; sexual preference shown 
by, ii. 273. 
Pike, American, brilliant colours of 
the male, during the breeding 
season, ii. 14. 
Pike, male, devoured by females, i. 
308. 
Pike, L. 0,, on the psychical elements 
of religion, i. 68. 
Pime/ia striata, sounds produced by 
the female, i, 385. 
j Pintail Drake, plumage of, ii. 84; 
pairing with a wild duck, ii. 115. 
Pintail Duck, pairing with a Wigeon, 
ii. 114. 
Pipe-fish, filamentous, ii. 18; mar- 
supial receptacles of the male, ii. 
21 . 
Pipits, moulting of the, ii. 83. 
Pipra, modified secondary wing- 
feathers of male, ii. 65. 
Pipra deliciosa , ii. 65, 66. 
Pirates stridulus , stridulation ot, i. 
350. 
Pithecia Icucocephala , sexual differences 
of colour in, ii. 290. 
Pithecia Satanas , beard of ii. 28o, 
284, 285; resemblance of, to a 
negro, ii. 381. 
Pits, suborbital, of Ruminants, n, 
280. 
Pittidje, nidification of, ii. 167. 
Placentata, i, 202. 
Plagiostomoits fishes, ii. 1. 
Plain-wanderer, Australian, ii. 201. 
