Nectariniae, moulting of the; nidification of.
Negro, resemblance of a, to Europeans in mental characters.
Negro-women, their kindness to Mungo Park.
Negroes, Caucasian features in; character of; lice of; fertility of,
when crossed with other races; blackness of; variability of; immunity
of, from yellow fever; difference of, from Americans; disfigurements of
the; colour of new-born children of; comparative beardlessness of;
readily become musicians; appreciation of beauty of their women by;
idea of beauty among; compression of the nose by some.
Nemertians, colours of.
Neolithic period.
Neomorpha, sexual difference of the beak in.
Nephila, size of male.
Nests, made by fishes; decoration of, by Humming-birds.
Neumeister, on a change of colour in pigeons after several moultings.
Neuration, difference of, in the two sexes of some butterflies and
hymenoptera.
Neuroptera.
Neurothemis, dimorphism in.
New Zealand, expectation by the natives of, of their extinction;
practice of tattooing in; aversion of natives of, to hairs on the face;
pretty girls engrossed by the chiefs in.
Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of the male bustard; on the differences
between the females of two species of Oxynotus; on the habits of the
Phalarope, dotterel, and godwit.
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