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Buckland, F., on the numerical proportion of the sexes in rats; on the proportion of the sexes in the trout; on Chimaera monstrosa. Buckland, W., on the complexity of crinoids. Buckler, W., proportion of sexes of Lepidoptera reared by. Bucorax abyssinicus, inflation of the neck-wattle of the male during courtship. Budytes Raii. Buffalo, Cape. Buffalo, Indian, horns of the.

Children, legitimate and illegitimate, proportion of the sexes in. Chiloe, lice of the natives of; population of. Chimaera monstrosa, bony process on the head of the male. Chimaeroid fishes, prehensile organs of male.

Scales of Aechmodus Leachii. c. The fossil fish, of which there are no less than 117 species known as British, resemble generically those of the Oolite, but differ, according to M. Agassiz, from those of the Cretaceous period. Hybodus reticulatus, Agassiz. Lias, Lyme Regis. a. Part of fin, commonly called Ichthyodorulite. b. Chimaera monstrosa.

But why Aldrovandus or Caspar Bartholine should bring in St. Austin as a Favourer of this Opinion of Men Pygmies, I see no Reason. To me he seems to assert quite the contrary: For proposing this Question, An ex propagine Adam vel filiorum Noe, quædam genera Hominum Monstrosa prodierunt? He mentions a great many monstrous Nations of Men, as they are described by the Indian Historians, and amongst the rest, the Pygmies, the Sciopodes, &c. And adds, Quid dicam de Cynocephalis, quorum Canina Capita atque ipse Latratus magis Bestias qu

In that strange monster, the Chimaera monstrosa, the male has a hook-shaped bone on the top of the head, directed forwards, with its end rounded and covered with sharp spines; in the female "this crown is altogether absent," but what its use may be to the male is utterly unknown. F. Buckland, in 'Land and Water, July 1868, p. 377, with a figure. Dr.