Turner on the.
Music, of birds; discordant, love of savages for; reason of power of perception of notes in animals; power of distinguishing notes; its connection with primeval speech; different appreciation of, by different peoples; origin of; effects of.
Musical cadences, perception of, by animals; powers of man.
Musk-deer, canine teeth of male; male, odoriferous organs of the; winter change of the.
Musk-duck, Australian; large size of male; of Guiana, pugnacity of the male.
Musk-ox, horns of.
Musk-rat, protective resemblance of the, to a clod of earth.
Musophagae, colours and nidification of the; both sexes of, equally brilliant.
Mussels opened by monkeys.
Mustela, winter change of two species of.
Musters, Captain, on Rhea Darwinii; marriages amongst Patagonians.
Mutilations, healing of; inheritance of.
Mutilla europaea, stridulation of.
Mutillidae, absence of ocelli in female.
Mycetes caraya, polygamous; vocal organs of; beard of; sexual differences of colour in; voice of.
Mycetes seniculus, sexual differences of colour in.
Myriapoda.
Nageli, on the influence of natural selection on plants; on the gradation of species of plants.
Nails, coloured yellow or purple in part of Africa.
Narwhal, tusks of the.
Nasal cavities, large size of, in American aborigines.
Nascent organs.
Nathusius, H. von, on the improved breeds of pigs; male domesticated animals more variable than females; horns of castrated sheep; on the breeding of domestic animals.
Natural selection, its effects on the early progenitors of man; influence of, on man; limitation of the principle; influence of, on social animals; Mr. Wallace on the limitation of, by the influence of the mental faculties in man; influence of, in the progress of the United States; in relation to sex.
Natural and sexual selection contrasted.
Naulette, jaw from, large size of the canines in.
Neanderthal skull, capacity of the.
Neck, proportion of, in soldiers and sailors.
Necrophorus, stridulation of.
Nectarinia, young of.
Nectariniae, moulting of the; nidification of.
Negro, resemblance of a, to Europeans in mental characters.
Negro-women, their kindness to Mungo Park.
Negroes, Caucasian features in; character of; lice of; fertility of, when crossed with other races; blackness of; variability of; immunity of, from yellow fever; difference of, from Americans; disfigurements of the; colour of new-born children of; comparative beardlessness of; readily become musicians; appreciation of beauty of their women by; idea of beauty among; compression of the nose by some.
Nemertians, colours of.
Neolithic period.
Neomorpha, sexual difference of the beak in.
Nephila, size of male.
Nests, made by fishes; decoration of, by Humming-birds.
Neumeister, on a change of colour in pigeons after several moultings.
Neuration, difference of, in the two sexes of some butterflies and hymenoptera.
Neuroptera.
Neurothemis, dimorphism in.
New Zealand, expectation by the natives of, of their extinction; practice of tattooing in; aversion of natives of, to hairs on the face; pretty girls engrossed by the chiefs in.
Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of the male bustard; on the differences between the females of two species of Oxynotus; on the habits of the Phalarope, dotterel, and godwit.
Newts.
Nicholson, Dr., on the non-immunity of dark Europeans from yellow fever.
Nictitating membrane.
Nidification of fishes; relation of, to colour; of British birds.
Night-heron, cries of the.
Nightingale, arrival of the male before the female; object of the song of the.
Nightingales, new mates found by.
Nightjar, selection of a mate by the female; Australian, sexes of; coloration of the.
Nightjars, noise made by some male, with their wings; elongated feathers in.
Nilghau, sexual differences of colour in the.
Nilsson, Prof., on the resemblance of stone arrow-heads from various places; on the development of the horns of the reindeer.