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Show 474 WESTROPP. INDEX. WOMEN. WF..STROPP, H. M., on the j)l'evalence of certain forms of ornamentation, i. 2H3. WESTWOOD, J. 0., on the classification of the Hymenoptera, i. 188; on the Culicidre and Tabanidre, i. 254; on a Hymenopterous parasite with a sedentary male, i. 272; on the proportions of the sexes in Lucanus ce1·vus and Siagonium, i. 313; on the absence of ocelli in female mutillidre, i. 341; on the jaws of Ammophita, i. 342; on the copulation of insects of distinct species, i. 342; on the male of Grabro cribmrius, i. 343; on the pugnacity of male 1'ipulw i. 349; on the stridulation of Pirates stridulus, i. 350; on the Cicadre, i. 351 ; on the stridulating organs of the crickets, i. 354 ; on Pneumora, i. 357 ; on EpMppiger vitium, i. 355, 358 ; on the , pugnacity of the Man tides, i. ::160; on Ptatyblerhnus, i. 361 ; on difference in the sexes of the Agrionidre, i. 362; on the pugnacity of the males of a species of Tenthredinre, i. 364; on the pugnacity of the male stagbeetle, i. 37 5 ; on Btedius taurus and Siagonium, i. 37 5 ; on lamellicorn beetles, i. 378; on the coloration of Litliosia, i. 396. WHALE, Sperm- , battles of male, ii. 240. WHALES, nakedness of, i. 148. WHATELY, Archb., language not peculiar to man, i. 53; on the primitive civilisation of man, i. 181. WIIEWELL, Prof., on maternal affec-tion, i. 40. WIIISKERS, in monkeys, i. 192. WHITE, Gilbert, on the proportion of • the sexes in the partridge, i. 306 ; on the house-cricket, i. 352 ; on the object of the song of birds, ii. 52 ; on the finding of new mates by white owls, ii. 105; on spring coveys of male partridges, ii. 107. WmTENESS, a sexual ornament in some birds, ii. 232 ; of mammals inhabiting snowy countries, ii. 298. Wm'rE-TIIROAT, aerial love-dance of the male, ii, 68. Wmow-nnw, polygamous, i. 269 ; breedin"' plumage of the male, ii. 84 97 ~ female, rejecting the unad~ rned male, ii. 120. WIDOWS and widowers, mortality of, i. 176. WIGEON, pairing with a pintail duck, ii. 114. WILCKI':NS, Dr., on the modifir.ation of domestic animals in mountainous regions, i. 120; on a numerical relation between the hairs and excretory pores in sheep, i. 248. WILDEH, Dr. Burt, on the greater fi-equency of supernumerary digits in men than in women, i. 276. WILLIAMS, on the marriage-customs of the Fijians, ii. 374. WILSON, Dr., on the conical heads of the natives of North-Western America, ii. 351; on the J<'ijians, ii. 352; on the pet·sistence of the fashion of compressing the skull, ii. 353. WING-SPURS, ii. 162. WINGS, difl'crences of, in the two sexes of butterflies and Hymenoptera, i. 345; play of, in the courtship of birds, ii. 95. WINTER, change of colour of mammals in, ii. 298. WITCHCRAFT, i. 68. WIVES, traces of the forcible capture of, i. 182. WOLF, winter change of the, ii. 298. WOLFF, on the variability of the viscera in man, i. 109. WOLLASTON, T. V., on Eurygnatlius, i. 344 ; on musical curculionidre, i. 378 ; on the stridulation of Acaltes, i. 384. WOLVES learning to bark from dogs, i. 44; hunting in packs, i. 75. WOLVES, black, ii. 294. WOMBAT, black varieties of the, ii. 294. WOMEN distingni~hed from men by male monkey~, i. 13 ; prepondeunce of, in numbers, i. 302; effects. of selection of, in accordance w1th different standards of beauty, ii. 355 ; practice of capturing, ii. 360, 364; early betrothals and slavery of, ii. 366 ; selection of, for beauty, WONDER. INDEX. ZYGlENIDJE. 475 ii. 372; freedom of selection by, in savage tribes, ii. 372. WONDlm, manifestations of, by animals, i. 42. WONFOR, M1·., on sexual peculiarities in the wings of butterflie~, i. 345. WoOLNErt, Mr., observations on the ear in man, i. 22. Wooo, J., on muscular variations in man, i. 109, 128, 129; on the greater variability of the muscles in men than in women, i. 27 5. WooD, T. W., on the colouring of the orange-tip butterfly, i. 394; on the habits of the Saturniidre, i. 398 ; on the habits of Menura Alberti, ii. 56; on Tetrao cupido, ii. 56; on the display of plumage by male pheasants, ii. 89; on the ocellateu spots of the Argus pheasant, ii. 144; on the habits of the female Cassowary, ii. 204. WOODCOCK, coloration of the, ii. 226. WOODPECKER, selection of a mate by the female, ii. 116. WOODPECKgR.S, ii. 56; tapping of, ii. 62 ; colours and nidification of the, ii. 171, 17 4, 223 ; characters of young, ii. 185, 199, 209. WOR!IlAI.D, Mr., on the coloration of lfypopyra, i. 397. WOUNDS, healing of, i. 13. WREN, ii. 198; young of the, ii. 209. 'VR!GIIT, C. A., on the young of Orocetes and Petrocincta, ii. 220. WRIGHT, Chauncey, on correlative acquisition, ii. 335; on the enlargement of the brain in man, ii. 391. WRIGHT, Mr., on the Scotch deerhound, ii. 261; on sexual preference tn dogs, ii. 271; on the rejection of a horse by a mare, ii. 272. WRIGHT, W. von, on the protective plumage of the Ptarmigan, ii. 81. WRITING, i. 182. WYMAN, Prof., on the prolongation of the coccyx in the human embryo, i. 16; on the condition of the great toe in the human embryo, i.17; on variation in the skulls of the natives of the Sandwich Islands, i. 108; on the hatching of the eggs in the mouths ant! branchial cavities of male fishes, i. 210, ii. 20. x. XENARCIIUS, on the Cicadre, i. 350. Xenorhynchtts, sexual difference in the colour of the eyes in, ii. l:l9. Xiplwphorus Ilelterii, peculiar anal fin of the male, ii. 9, 10. Xylocopa, difference of the sexes in, i. 366. Y. Y ARRELL, W., on the habits of the Cyprinidre, i. ~09; on Raia clavata, ii. 2; on the characters of the male salmon during the breeding season, ii. 4, 14; on the characters of the rays, ii. 6; on the gemmeous dragonet, ii. 8; on the spawning of the salmon, ii. 19; on the incubation of the Lophobranehii, ii. '21 ; on rivalry in song-birds, ii. 53 ; on the trachea of the swan, ii. 60; on the moulting of the anatidre, ii. 85; on an instance of reasoning in a gull, ii. 108; on the young of the waders, ii. 217. YELLOW fever, immunity of negroes and mulattoes from, i. 243. YOUATT, Mr., on the development of the horns in cattle, i. 284. YURA-CARAS, their notions of beauty, ii. 347. z. ZEBRA, rejection of an ass by a female, ii. 2!)5; stripes of the, ii. 302. ZEBUS, humps ot; i. 284. ZIGZAGS, prevalence of, as ornaments, i. 233. ZINCKE, Mr., on European emigration to .America, i. 179. Zootocct vivipara, sexual difference iu the colour of, ii. 36. ZYG2ENID1E, coloration of the, i. 396. THE END. uu |
