Fly-catchers, colours and nidification of.
Foetus, human, woolly covering of the; arrangement of the hair on.
Food, influence of, upon stature.
Foot, prehensile power of the, retained in some savages; prehensile, in
the early progenitors of man.
Foramen, supra-condyloid, exceptional occurrence of in the humerus of
man; in the early progenitors of man.
Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians; on local variation of colour in the
Quichuas; on the hairlessness of the Aymaras and Quichuas; on the long
hair of the Aymaras and Quichaus.
Forel, F., on white young swans.
Forester, Hon. O.W., on an orphan hawk.
Formica rufa, size of the cerebral ganglia in.
Fossils, absence of, connecting man with the apes.
Fowl, occurrence of spurs in the female; game, early pugnacity of;
Polish, early development of cranial peculiarities of; variations in
plumage of; examples of correlated development in the; domestic, breeds
and sub-breeds of.
Fowls, spangled Hamburg; inheritance of changes of plumage by; sexual
peculiarities in, transmitted only to the same sex; loss of secondary
sexual characters by male; Polish, origin of the crest in; period of
inheritance of characters by; cuckoo-; development of the comb in;
numerical proportion of the sexes in; courtship of; mongrel, between a
black Spanish cock and different hens; pencilled Hamburg, difference of
the sexes in; Spanish, sexual differences of the comb in; spurred, in
both sexes.
Fox, W.D., on some half-tamed wild ducks becoming polygamous, and on
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