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Cold, supposed effects of; power of supporting, by man. Coleoptera, stridulation of; stridulant organs of, discussed. Colias edusa and hyale. Collingwood, C., on the pugnacity of the butterflies of Borneo; on butterflies being attracted by a dead specimen of the same species. Colobus, absence of the thumb. Colombia, flattened heads of savages of. Colonists, success of the English as.
The natives call it the Tanana, in allusion to its music, which is a sharp, resonant stridulation resembling the syllables ta-na-na, ta-na- na, succeeding each other with little intermission. It seems to be rare in the neighbourhood. When the natives capture one, they keep it in a wicker-work cage for the sake of hearing it sing. A friend of mine kept one six days.
The great Chiasognathus stridulates in anger or defiance; many species do the same from distress or fear, if held so that they cannot escape; by striking the hollow stems of trees in the Canary Islands, Messrs. Wollaston and Crotch were able to discover the presence of beetles belonging to the genus Acalles by their stridulation.
Musters, Captain, on Rhea Darwinii; marriages amongst Patagonians. Mutilations, healing of; inheritance of. Mutilla europaea, stridulation of. Mutillidae, absence of ocelli in female. Mycetes caraya, polygamous; vocal organs of; beard of; sexual differences of colour in; voice of. Mycetes seniculus, sexual differences of colour in. Myriapoda.
Typhaeus, stridulating organs of; stridulation of. Twins, tendency to produce, hereditary. Twite, proportion of the sexes in. Ugliness, said to consist in an approach to the lower animals. Umbrella-bird. Umbrina, sounds produced by. United States, rate of increase in; influence of natural selection on the progress of; change undergone by Europeans in the. Upupa epops, sounds produced by the male.
Heterocerus, stridulation of. Hewitt, Mr., on a game-cock killing a kite; on the recognition of dogs and cats by ducks; on the pairing of a wild duck with a pintail drake; on the courtship of fowls; on the coupling of pheasants with common hens. Hilgendorf, sounds produced by crustaceans. Hindoo, his horror of breaking his caste.
Crests, of birds, difference of, in the sexes; dorsal hairy, of mammals. Cricket, field-, stridulation of the; pugnacity of male. Cricket, house-, stridulation of the. Crickets, sexual differences in. Crinoids, complexity of. Crioceridae, stridulation of the. Croaking of frogs. Crocodiles, musky odour of, during the breeding season. Crocodilia. Crossbills, characters of young. Crosses in man.
Wolff, on the variability of the viscera in man. Wollaston, T.V., on Eurygnathus; on musical Curculionidae; on the stridulation of Acalles. Wolves, learning to bark from dogs; hunting in packs. Wolves, black. Wombat, black varieties of the.
And his song, as he climbed over me, was squeaky and sawlike, and as he walked he doddered, head trembling as an old man's shakes in final acquiescence in the futility of life. But in this great-armed beetle it was a nodding of necessity, a doddering of desire, the drawing of the bow across the strings in a hymn of hope which had begun in past time with the first stridulation of ancient insects.
On, the breath that he drew in gasping stridulation like liquid fire in his throat; on, the calm stars of the unemotional universe above his head; on, the wind of the wide prairie lands striking his face with their indefinable sweet scents which even clutching death did not deny his turbulent senses; on, pain in every nerve; on, joints straining and starting in their sockets; on, dragged, whipped, lashed from ditch to ties' end, flung from rocking car to crumbling bank, where jagged rocks cut his face and freed his blood to streak coldly upon his cheek.
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