CATARACT, hereditary.
CATERPILLARS, effect of changed food on.
Catleya leopoldii.
CATLIN, G., colour of feral horses in North America.
CATON, Judge, wild turkey.
CATTLE, European, their probable origin from three original species. -humped, or zebus. -intercrossing of. -wild, of Chillingham, Hamilton, Chartley, Burton Constable, and Gisburne. -colour of feral. -British breeds of. -South African breeds of. -South American breeds of. -Niata. -effects of food and climate on. -effects of selection on. -Dutch-buttocked. -hornless, production of horns in. -reversion in, when crossed. -wildness of hybrid. -short-horned, prepotency of. -wild, influence of crossing and segregation on. -crosses of. -of Falkland Islands. -mutual fertility of all varieties of. -effects of interbreeding on. -shorthorn, sterility of. -effects of careful selection on. -naked, of Columbia. -crossed with wild banteng in Java. -with reversed hair in Banda Oriental. -selection of trifling characters in. -fashion in. -similarity of best races of. -unconscious selection in. -effects of natural selection on anomalous breeds of. -light-coloured, attacked by flies. -Jersey, rapid improvement of. -effects of disuse of parts in. -rudimentary horns in. -supposed influence of humidity on the hair of. -white spots of, liable to disease. -supposed analogous variation in. -displacement of long-horned by short-horned.
CAULIFLOWER. -free-seeding of. -in India. -rudimentary flowers in.
CAVALIER pigeon.
Cavia aperea.
CAY (Cebus azarae), sterility of, in confinement.
Cebus azarae.
Cecidomyia, larval development of. -and Misocampus.
CEDARS of Lebanon and Atlas.
CELERY, turnip-rooted. -run wild.
CELL-THEORY.
Celosia cristata.
CELSUS, on the selection of seed-corn.
CELTS, early cultivation of the cabbage by the. -selection of cattle and horses by the.
Cenchrus, seeds of a, used as food.
Centaurea cyanus, bud-variation in.
CEPHALOPODA, spermatophores of.
Cerasus padus, yellow-fruited.
Cercoleptes, sterility of, in captivity.
Cercopithecus, breeding of a species of, in captivity.
CEREALS. -of the Neolithic period in Switzerland. -adaptation of, to soils.
Cereus.
Cereus speciosissimus and phyllanthus, reversion in hybrids of.
Cervus canadensis.
Cervus dama.
CETACEA, correlation of dermal system and teeth in the.
CEYLON, cats of. -pigeon-fancying in.
CHAMISSO, on seeding bread-fruit.
CHANNEL Islands, breeds of cattle in.
CHAPMAN, Professor, peach-trees producing nectarines.
CHAPUIS, F., sexual peculiarities in pigeons. -effect produced by first male upon the subsequent progeny of the female. -sterility of the union of some pigeons.
CHARACTERS, fixity of. -latent. -continued divergence of. -antagonistic.
CHARDIN, abundance of pigeons in Persia.
CHARLEMAGNE, orders as to the selection of stallions.
CHARTLEY, wild cattle of.
CHATE, reversion of the upper seeds in the pods of stocks.
CHAUNDY, Mr., crossed varieties of cabbage.
CHEETAH, general sterility of, in captivity.
Cheiranthus cheiri.
CHERRIES. -bud-variation in. -white Tartarian. -variety of, with curled petals. -period of vegetation of, changed by forcing.
CHEVREUL, on crossing fruit-trees.
CHICKENS, differences in characters of. -white, liable to gapes.
CHIGOE.
CHILE, sheep of.
CHILLINGHAM cattle, identical with Bos primigenius. -characters of.
CHILOE, half-castes of.
CHINA, cats of, with drooping ears. -horses of. -striped ponies of. -asses of. -notice of rabbits in, by Confucius. -breeds of pigeons reared in. -breeds of fowls of, in fifteenth century.
CHINCHILLA, fertility of, in captivity.
CHINESE, selection practised by the. -preference of the, for hornless rams. -recognition of the value of native breeds by the.
CHINESE, or Himalayan rabbit.
"CHIVOS," a breed of cattle in Paraguay.
CHOUX-RAVES.
CHRIST, H., on the plants of the Swiss Lake-dwellings. -intermediate forms between Pinus sylvestris and montana.