Lithosia.
Whale, Sperm-, battles of male.
Whales, nakedness of.
Whately, Arch., language not peculiar to man; on the primitive
civilisation of man.
Whewell, Prof., on maternal affection.
Whiskers, in monkeys.
White, F.B., noise produced by Hylophila.
White, Gilbert, on the proportion of the sexes in the partridge; on the
house-cricket; on the object of the song of birds; on the finding of
new mates by white owls; on spring coveys of male partridges.
Whiteness, a sexual ornament in some birds; of mammals inhabiting snowy
countries.
White-throat, aerial love-dance of the male.
Whitney, Prof., on the development of language; language not
indispensable for thought.
Widgeon, pairing with a pintail duck.
Widow-bird, polygamous; breeding plumage of the male; female, rejecting
the unadorned male.
Widows and widowers, mortality of.
Wilckens, Dr., on the modification of domestic animals in mountainous
regions; on a numerical relation between the hairs and excretory pores
in sheep.
Wilder, Dr. Burt, on the greater frequency of supernumerary digits in
men than in women.
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