Malherbe, on the woodpeckers.
Mallotus Peronii.
Mallotus villosus.
Malthus, T., on the rate of increase of population.
Maluridae, nidification of the.
Malurus, young of.
Mammae, rudimentary, in male mammals; supernumerary, in women; of male human subject.
Mammalia, Prof. Owen's classification of; genealogy of the.
Mammals, recent and tertiary, comparison of cranial capacity of; nipples of; pursuit of female, by the males; secondary sexual characters of; weapons of; relative size of the sexes of; parallelism of, with birds in secondary sexual characters; voices of, used especially during the breeding season.
Man, variability of; erroneously regarded as more domesticated than other animals; migrations of; wide distribution of; causes of the nakedness of; supposed physical inferiority of; a member of the Catarrhine group; early progenitors of; transition from ape indefinite; numerical proportions of the sexes in; difference between the sexes; proportion of sexes amongst the illegitimate; different complexion of male and female negroes; secondary sexual characters of; primeval condition of.
Mandans, correlation of colour and texture of hair in the.
Mandible, left, enlarged in the male of Taphroderes distortus.
Mandibles, use of the, in Ammophila; large, of Corydalis cornutus; large, of male Lucanus elaphus.
Mandrill, number of caudal vertebrae in the; colours of the male.
Mantegazza, Prof., on last molar teeth of man; bright colours in male animals; on the ornaments of savages; on the beardlessness of the New Zealanders; on the exaggeration of natural characters by man.
Mantell, W., on the engrossment of pretty girls by the New Zealand chiefs.
Mantis, pugnacity of species of.
Maories, mortality of; infanticide and proportion of sexes; distaste for hairiness amongst men.
Marcus Aurelius, on the origin of the moral sense; on the influence of habitual thoughts.
Mareca penelope.
Marks, retained throughout groups of birds.
Marriage, restraints upon, among savages; influence of, upon morals; influence of, on mortality; development of.
Marriages, early; communal.
Marshall, Dr. W., protuberances on birds' heads; on the moulting of birds; advantage to older birds of paradise.
Marshall, Col., interbreeding amongst Todas; infanticide and proportion of sexes with Todas; choice of husband amongst Todas.
Marshall, Mr., on the brain of a Bushwoman.
Marsupials, development of the nictitating membrane in; uterus of; possession of nipples by; their origin from Monotremata; abdominal sacs of; relative size of the sexes of; colours of.
Marsupium, rudimentary in male marsupials.
Martin, W.C.L., on alarm manifested by an orang at the sight of a turtle; on the hair in Hylobates; on a female American deer; on the voice of Hylobates agilis; on Semnopithecus nemaeus.
Martin, on the beards of the inhabitants of St. Kilda.
Martins deserting their young.
Martins, C., on death caused by inflammation of the vermiform appendage.
Mastoid processes in man and apes.
Maudsley, Dr., on the influence of the sense of smell in man; on idiots smelling their food; on Laura Bridgman; on the development of the vocal organs; moral sense failing in incipient madness; change of mental faculties at puberty in man.
Mayers, W.F., on the domestication of the goldfish in China.
Mayhew, E., on the affection between individuals of different sexes in the dog.
Maynard, C.J., on the sexes of Chrysemys picta.
Meckel, on correlated variation of the muscles of the arm and leg.
Medicines, effect produced by, the same in man and in monkeys.
Medusae, bright colours of some.
Megalithic structures, prevalence of.
Megapicus validus, sexual difference of colour in.
Megasoma, large size of males of.
Meigs, Dr. A., on variation in the skulls of the natives of America.
Meinecke, on the numerical proportion of the sexes in butterflies.
Melanesians, decrease of.
Meldola, Mr., colours and marriage flight of Colias and Pieris.