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- Tench, proportions of the sexes in the 249; brightness of male, during breeding season, 340.
- Tenebrionidæ, stridulation of, 302.
- Tennent, Sir J. E., on the tusks of the Ceylon Elephant, 507, 515; on the frequent absence of beard in the natives of Ceylon, 560; on the Chinese opinion of the aspect of the Cingalese, 578.
- Tennyson, A., on the control of thought, 123.
- Tenthredinidæ, proportions of the sexes in, 254; fighting habits of male, 291; difference of the sexes in, 292.
- Tephrodornis, young of, 468.
- Terai, in India, 182.
- Termites, habits of, 291.
- Terns, white, 492; and black, 493.
- , seasonal change of plumage in, 492.
- Terror, common action of, upon the lower animals and man, 69.
- Testudo elegans, 351.
- nigra, 351.
- Tetrao cupido, battles of, 367; sexual difference in the vocal organs of, 371.
- phasianellus, dances of, 380; duration of dances of, 405.
- scoticus 455, 465, 471.
- tetrix, 455, 465, 471; pugnacity of the male, 363.
- umbellus, pairing of, 367; battles of, 367; drumming of the male, 375.
- urogalloides, dances of, 405.
- urogallus, pugnacity of the male, 363.
- urophasianus, inflation of the œsophagus in the male, 372.
- Thamnobia, young of, 468.
- Thaumalea picta, display of plumage by the male, 396.
- Thecla, sexual differences of colouring in species of, 310.
- rubi, protective colouring of, 312.
- Thecophora fovea, 308.
- Theognis, selection in mankind, 29.
- Theridion, stridulation of males of, 273.
- lineatum, 272.
- Thomisus citreus, and T. floricolens, difference of colour in the sexes of, 272.
- Thompson, J. H., on the battles of sperm-whales, 500.
- , W., on the colouring of the male char during the breeding season, 340; on the pugnacity of the males of Gallinula chloropus, 360; on the finding of new mates by magpies, 407; on the finding of new mates by Peregrine falcons, 408.
- Thorax, processes of, in male beetles, 295.
- Thorell, T., on the proportion of the sexes in spiders, 255.
- Thornback, difference in the teeth of the two sexes of the, 334.
- Thoughts, control of, 123.
- Thrush, pairing with a blackbird, 414; colours and nidification of the, 455.
- Thrushes, characters of young, 455, 464.
- Thug, remorse of a, 117.
- Thumb, absence of, in Ateles and Hylobates, 51.
- Thury, M., on the numerical proportion of male and female births among the Jews, 243.
- Thylacinus, possession of the marsupial sack by the male, 161.
- Thysanura, 279.
- Tibia, dilated, of the male Crabo cribrarius, 276.
- and femur, proportions of, in the Aymara Indians, 34.
- Tierra del Fuego, marriage-customs of, 598.
- Tiger, colours and markings of the, 545.
- Tigers, depopulation of districts by, in India, 46.
- Tillus elongatus, difference of colour in the sexes of, 294.
- Timidity, variability of, in the same species, 69.
- Tineina, proportion of the sexes in, 250.
- Tipula, pugnacity of male, 280.
- Tits, sexual difference of colour in, 458.
- Toads, 349; male, treatment of ova by some, 163; male, ready to breed before the female, 212.
