rhinoceros attacking white or grey horses; on the disfigurements
practised by the negroes; on the gashing of the cheeks and temples
practised in Arab countries; on the coiffure of the North Africans; on
the perforation of the lower lip by the women of Latooka; on the
distinctive characters of the coiffure of central African tribes; on
the coiffure of Arab women.
Balz of the Black-cock.
Bantam, Sebright.
Banteng, horns of; sexual differences in the colours of the.
Banyai, colour of the.
Barbarism, primitive, of civilised nations.
Barbs, filamentous, of the feathers, in certain birds.
Barr, Mr., on sexual preference in dogs.
Barrago, F., on the Simian resemblances of man.
Barrington, Daines, on the language of birds; on the clucking of the
hen; on the object of the song of birds; on the singing of female
birds; on birds acquiring the songs of other birds; on the muscles of
the larynx in song-birds; on the want of the power of song by female
birds.
Barrow, on the widow-bird.
Bartels, Dr., supernumerary mammae in men.
Bartlett, A.D., period of hatching of bird s eggs; on the tragopan; on
the development of the spurs in Crossoptilon auritum; on the fighting
of the males of Plectopterus gambensis; on the Knot; on display in male
birds; on the display of plumage by the male Polyplectron; on
Crossoptilon auritum and Phasianus Wallichii; on the habits of
Lophophorus; on the colour of the mouth in Buceros bicornis; on the
incubation of the cassowary; on the Cape Buffalo; on the use of the
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