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CANINES.
INDEX.
CEBUS.
male ruminants, 53; large, in the early progenitors of man, 160.
- Canines, and horns, inverse development of, 514.
- Canoes, use of, 48, 180.
- Cantharis, difference of colour in the sexes of a species of, 294.
- Cantharus lineatus, 341.
- Capercailzie, polygamous, 219; proportion of the sexes in the, 248; pugnacity of the male, 363; pairing of the, 367; autumn meetings of the, 370; call of the, 375; duration of the courtship of, 405; behaviour of the female, 419; inconvenience of black colour to the female, 444; sexual difference in the coloration of the, 491; crimson eye-cere of the male, 491.
- Capitonidæ, colours and nidification of the, 455.
- Capra œgagrus, 508; crest of the male, 531; sexual difference in the colour of, 536.
- Capreolus Sibiricus subecaudatus, 542.
- Caprice, common to man and animals, 93.
- Caprimulgus, noise made by the males of some species of, with their wings, 376.
- virginianus, pairing of, 366.
- Carabidæ, 302.
- Carbonnier, on the natural history of the pike, 249; on the relative size of the sexes in fishes, 335; courtship of Chinese Macropus, 341.
- Carcineutes, sexual difference of colour in, 457.
- Carcinus mœnas, 268, 269.
- Cardinalis virginianus, 225.
- Carduelis elegans, sexual differences of the beak in, 360.
- Carnivora, marine, polygamous habits of, 218; sexual differences in the colours of, 534.
- Carp, numerical proportion of the sexes in the, 249.
- Carr, R., on the peewit, 366.
- Carrier pigeon, late development of the wattle in the, 238.
- Carrion beetles, stridulation of, 302.
- Carus, Prof. V., on the development of the horns in merino sheep, 235.
- Cassowary, sexes and incubation of the, 478.
- Castina, mode of holding wings, 315.
- Castoreum, 529.
- Casuarius galeatus, 478.
- Cat, convoluted body in the extremity of the tail of a, 23; sick, sympathy of a dog with a, 103.
- Cataract in Cebus Azarœ, 7.
- Catarrh, liability of Cebus Azarœ to, 7.
- Catarrhine monkeys, 153.
- Caterpillars, bright colours of, 325.
- Cathartes aura, 416.
- jota, love-gestures of the male, 380.
- Catlin, G., correlation of colour and texture of hair in the Mandans, 197; on the development of the beard among North American Indians, 560; on the great length of the hair in some North American tribes, 580.
- Caton, J. D., on the development of the horns in Cervus virginianus and strongyloceros, 234; on the presence of traces of horns in the female wapiti, 504; on the fighting of deer, 510; on the crest of the male wapiti, 531; on the colours of the Virginian deer, 535; on sexual differences of colour in the wapiti, 536; on the spots of the Virginian deer, 546.
- Cats, dreaming, 74; tortoise-shell, 230, 232, 237; enticed by valerian, 530; colours of, 543,
- Cattle, rapid increase of, in South America, 47; domestic, lighter in winter in Siberia, 229; horns of, 234, 505; domestic, sexual differences of, late developed, 238; numerical proportion of the sexes in, 246.
- Caudal vertebræ, number of, in macaques and baboons, 58; basal, of monkeys, imbedded in the body, 59.
- Cavolini, observations on Serranus, 162.
- Cebus, maternal affection in a, 70; gradation of species of, 175.
- Apella, 205.
- Azarœ, liability of, to the same diseases as man, 7; distinct sounds produced by, 84; early maturity of the female, 558.
- capucinus, polygamous, 217; sexual differences of colour in, 537; hair on the head of, 549.