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Honey-buzzard of India, variation in the crest of. Honey-sucker, females and young of. Honey-suckers, moulting of the; Australian, nidification of. Honour, law of. Hooker, Dr., forbearance of elephant to his keeper; on the colour of the beard in man. Hookham, Mr., on mental concepts in animals. Hoolock Gibbon, nose of. Hoopoe, sounds produced by male. Hoplopterus armatus, wing-spurs of.
Allen, S., on the habits of Hoplopterus; on the plumes of herons; on the vernal moult of Herodius bubulcus. Alligator, courtship of the male; roaring of the male. Amadavat, pugnacity of male. Amadina Lathami, display of plumage by the male. Amadina castanotis, display of plumage by the male. Amazons, butterflies of the; fishes of the.
R. Carr in 'Land and Water, Aug. 8th, 1868, p. 46. In regard to Lobivanellus, see Jerdon's 'Birds of India, vol. iii. p. 647, and Gould's 'Handbook of Birds of Australia, vol. ii. p. 220. For the Hoplopterus, see Mr. The presence of the female is the teterrima belli causa. Mr. Richardson on Tetrao umbellus, 'Fauna Bor. Amer.: Birds, 1831, p. 343.
In an allied bird, the Hoplopterus armatus, the spurs do not increase in size during the breeding- season; but these birds have been seen in Egypt to fight together, in the same manner as our peewits, by turning suddenly in the air and striking sideways at each other, sometimes with fatal results. Thus also they drive away other enemies. See, on our peewit, Mr.
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