Quechua, see Quichua.
Querquedula acuta.
Quetelet, proportion of sexes in man; relative size in man and woman.
Quichua Indians; local variation of colour in the; no grey hair among the; hairlessness of the; long hair of the.
Quiscalus major, proportions of the sexes of, in Florida and Honduras.
Rabbit, white tail of the.
Rabbits, domestic, elongation of the skull in; modification of the skull in, by the lopping of the ear; danger-signals of; numerical proportion of the sexes in.
Races, distinctive characters of; or species of man; crossed, fertility or sterility of; of man, variability of the; of man, resemblance of, in mental characters; formation of; of man, extinction of; effects of the crossing of; of man, formation of the; of man, children of the; beardless, aversion of, to hairs on the face.
Raffles, Sir S., on the banteng.
Rafts, use of.
Rage, manifested by animals.
Raia batis, teeth of.
Raia clavata, female spined on the back; sexual difference in the teeth of.
Raia maculata, teeth of.
Rails, spur-winged.
Ram, mode of fighting of the; African, mane of an; fat-tailed.
Rameses II., features of.
Ramsay, Mr., on the Australian musk-duck; on the regent-bird; on the incubation of Menura superba.
Rana esculenta, vocal sacs of.
Rat, common, general dispersion of, a consequence of superior cunning; supplantation of the native in New Zealand, by the European rat; common, said to be polygamous; numerical proportion of the sexes in.
Rats, enticed by essential oils.
Rationality of birds.
Rattlesnakes, difference of the sexes in the; rattles as a call.
Raven, vocal organs of the; stealing bright objects; pied, of the Feroe Islands.
Rays, prehensile organs of male.
Razor-bill, young of the.
Reade, Winwood, suicide among savages in Africa; mulattoes not prolific; effect of castration of horned sheep; on the Guinea sheep; on the occurrence of a mane in an African ram; on singing of negroes; on the negroes' appreciation of the beauty of their women; on the admiration of negroes for a black skin; on the idea of beauty among negroes; on the Jollofs; on the marriage-customs of the negroes.
Reason in animals.
Redstart, American, breeding in immature plumage.
Redstarts, new mates found by.
Reduvidae, stridulation of.
Reed-bunting, head-feathers of the male; attacked by a bullfinch.
Reefs, fishes frequenting.
Reeks, H., retention of horns by breeding deer; cow rejected by a bull; destruction of piebald rabbits by cats.
Regeneration, partial, of lost parts in man.
Regent bird.
Reindeer, horns of the; battles of; horns of the female; antlers of, with numerous points; winter change of the; sexual preferences shown by.
Relationship, terms of.
Religion, deficiency of among certain races; psychical elements of.
Remorse, deficiency of, among savages.
Rengger, on the diseases of Cebus Azarae; on the diversity of the mental faculties of monkeys; on the Payaguas Indians; on the inferiority of Europeans to savages in their senses; revenge taken by monkeys; on maternal affection in a Cebus; on the reasoning powers of American monkeys; on the use of stones by monkeys for cracking hard nuts; on the sounds uttered by Cebus Azarae; on the signal-cries of monkeys; on the polygamous habits of Mycetes caraya; on the voice of the howling monkeys; on the odour of Cervus campestris; on the beards of Mycetes caraya and Pithecia Satanas; on the colours of Felis mitis; on the colours of Cervus paludosus; on sexual differences of colour in Mycetes; on the colour of the infant Guaranys; on the early maturity of the female of Cebus Azarae; on the beards of the Guaranys; on the emotional notes employed by monkeys; on American polygamous monkeys.
Representative species, of birds.
Reproduction, unity of phenomena of, throughout the mammalia; period of, in birds.
Reproductive system, rudimentary structures in the; accessory parts of.
Reptiles.
Reptiles and birds, alliance of.