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- Suspicion, prevalence of, among animals, 69.
- Swallow-tail butterfly, 312.
- Swallows deserting their young, 108, 113.
- Swan, black, wild, trachea of the, 374; white young of, 482; red beak of the, 491; black-necked, 493.
- Swans, 491, 493; young, 481.
- Swaysland, Mr., on the arrival of migratory birds, 212.
- Swifts, migration of, 108.
- Swinhoe, R., on the common rat in Formosa and China, 80; behaviour of lizards when caught, 355; on the sounds produced by the male hoopoe, 376; on Dicrurus macrocercus and the spoonbill, 461; on the young of Ardeola, 468; on the habits of Turnix, 476; on the habits of Rhynchœa bengalensis, 476; on Orioles breeding in immature plumage, 484.
- Sylvia atricapilla, young of, 487.
- cinerea, aerial love-dance of the male, 380
- Sympathy, 134; among animals, 102; its supposed basis, 106.
- Sympathies, gradual widening of, 123.
- Syngnathous fishes, abdominal pouch in male, 163.
- Sypheotides auritus, acuminated primaries of the male, 378; ear-tufts of, 384
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- Tabanidæ, habits of, 208.
- Tadorna variegata, sexes and young of, 479.
- vulpanser, 414.
- Tahitians, 145; compression of the nose by the, 583.
- Tail, rudimentary, occurrence of, in man, 22; convoluted body in the extremity of the, 23; absence of, in man and the higher apes, 58; variability of, in species of Macacus and in baboons, 58; presence of, in the early progenitors of man, 160; length of, in pheasants, 445, 451, 452; difference of length of the, in the two sexes of birds, 451.
- Tait, Lawson, on the effects of natural selection on civilised nations, 133.
- Tanager, scarlet, variation in the male, 424.
- Tanagra œstiva, age of mature plumage in, 483.
- rubra 424; young of, 487.
- Tanais, absence of mouth in the males of some species of, 208; relations of the sexes in, 255; dimorphic males of a species of, 265.
- Tankerville, Earl, on the battles of wild bulls, 501.
- Tanysiptera, races of, determined from adult males, 468.
- sylvia, long tail-feathers of, 451.
- Taphroderes distortus, enlarged left mandible of the male, 277.
- Tapirs, longitudinal stripes of young, 464, 546.
- Tarsi, dilatation of front, in male beetles, 275.
- Tarsius, 156.
- Tasmania, half-castes killed by the natives of, 170.
- Tasmanians, extinction of, 184.
- Taste, in the Quadrumana, 541.
- Tattooing, 178; universality of, 574.
- Taylor, G., on Quiscalus major, 248.
- Tea, fondness of monkeys for, 7.
- Tear-sacks, of Ruminants, 529.
- Teebay, Mr., on changes of plumage in spangled Hamburgh fowls, 229.
- Teeth, rudimentary incisor, in Ruminants, 11; posterior molar, in man, 20; wisdom, 20; diversity of, 26; canine, in the early progenitors of man, 160; canine, of male mammals, 502; in man, reduced by correlation, 562; staining of the, 574; front, knocked out or filed by some savages, 575.
- Tegetmeier, Mr., on the transmission of colours in pigeons by one sex alone, 231; numerical proportion of male and female births in dogs, 246; on the abundance of male pigeons, 247; on the wattles of game-cocks, 403; on the courtship of fowls, 417; on the loves of pigeons, 418; on dyed pigeons, 418; blue dragon pigeons, 446.
- Tembeta, S. American ornament, 575.
- Temper, in dogs and horses, inherited, 69.