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Tools, flint; used by monkeys; use of. Topknots in birds. Tortoise, voice of the male. Tortures, submitted to by American savages. Totanus, double moult in. Toucans, colours and nidification of the; beaks and ceres of the. Towns, residence in, a cause of diminished stature. Toynbee, J., on the external shell of the ear in man.
I say "he" because the red plume on the top of his head proclaims the sex. It seems not to be generally known to our writers upon ornithology that certain of our woodpeckers probably all the winter residents each fall excavate a limb or the trunk of a tree in which to pass the winter, and that the cavity is abandoned in the spring, probably for a new one in which nidification takes place.
The great historiographer of instinct has thrown a wonderful light, by his beautiful experiments relating to the nidification of the mason-bee, upon the indissoluble succession of its different phases; the lineal concatenation, the inevitable and necessary order which presides over each of these nervous discharges of which the total series constitutes, properly speaking, a mode of action.
"The nidification of birds," rejoined Goldsmith, "is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it." While conversation was going on in this placid, agreeable and instructive manner, the eternal meddler and busybody Boswell, must intrude, to put it in a brawl. The Dillys were dissenters; two of their guests were dissenting clergymen; another, Mr.
Fly-catchers, colours and nidification of. Foetus, human, woolly covering of the; arrangement of the hair on. Food, influence of, upon stature. Foot, prehensile power of the, retained in some savages; prehensile, in the early progenitors of man. Foramen, supra-condyloid, exceptional occurrence of in the humerus of man; in the early progenitors of man.
Stickleback, polygamous; male, courtship of the; male, brilliant colouring of, during the breeding season; nidification of the. Sticks used as implements and weapons by monkeys. Sting in bees. Stokes, Captain, on the habits of the great bower-bird. Stoliczka, Dr., on colours in snakes. Stoliczka, on the pre-anal pores of lizards. Stonechat, young of the.
P.S. I read not long ago a German article on the colours of female birds, and that author leaned rather strongly to your side about nidification. I forget who the author was, but he seemed to know a good deal. Holly House, Barking, E. July 6, 1870. Dear Darwin, Many thanks for the drawing. I must say, however, the resemblance to a snake is not very striking, unless to a cobra not found in America.
But if, somewhere in that vast hall, there were a few preparations, exemplifying the leading structural peculiarities and the mode of development of a common fowl; if the types of the genera, the leading modifications in the skeleton, in the plumage at various ages, in the mode of nidification, and the like, among birds, were displayed; and if the other specimens were put away in a place where the men of science, to whom they are alone useful, could have free access to them, I can conceive that this collection might become a great instrument of scientific education.
Males and females, comparative numbers of; comparative mortality of, while young. Malherbe, on the woodpeckers. Mallotus Peronii. Mallotus villosus. Malthus, T., on the rate of increase of population. Maluridae, nidification of the. Malurus, young of. Mammae, rudimentary, in male mammals; supernumerary, in women; of male human subject. Mammalia, Prof. Owen's classification of; genealogy of the.
We label him with two or three sesquipedalia verba, give his territorial range, describe his notes and his habits of nidification, and fancy we have rendered an account of the bird. But how should we like to be inventoried in such a style? "His name was John Smith; he lived in Boston, in a three-story brick house; he had a baritone voice, but was not a good singer."
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