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Miss Busk gives a free adaptation rather than a translation of the German version, "Sagas," p. 315. Prof. De Gubernatis, "Zool. Von Hahn, vol. ii. p. 225; "Tour du Monde," vol. xxi. p. 342, quoted by Liebrecht, p. 105. "Panjab N. and Q." vol. iii. pp. 41, 115; "Journal Ethnol. Soc. London," N. S., vol. i. p. 98. The information relating to the Bona Dea has been collected by Preller, "Röm.
These birds feed only on grains, so that it is to a very pronounced taste for collecting that we must attribute this mania of piling up before the entrance of the bower white stones, shells, and small bones. They are very careful also only to collect pieces which have been whitened and dried by the sun. Gould first accurately described the habits of the Bower-birds, Proceed. Zool.
If the testes were developed from the beginning in a different part of the abdomen, there might be some reason in calling the change a mutation. Moreover, if it is a mutation, why has it never occurred in any other class of Vertebrates except Mammals? In 1903 Dr. Zool. Dr. Woodland correlated the dislocation of the testes with the special mechanical features of the mode of locomotion in Mammalia.
No. 23. Richardson Zool. Trans. 3, p. 102. Inhabits sandy beaches; is little known to the sealers. Caught in a net, 3rd March, 1841. No. 39. CHEILODACTYLUS CARPONEMUS. C. et V. 5. p. 362. Inhabits rocky shores. Some specimens weigh upwards of sixteen pounds. Caught by hook, 17th May, 1841. No. 42. CHEILODACTYLUS. Native name TOORJENONG. "Black Jew-fish" of the sealers.
In Lepidoptera among insects the evidence concerning castration tends to prove that hormones from the gonads play no part at all in the development of somatic sexual characters. Exper. Zool. Oudemans had previously obtained the same result in the Gipsy Moth, Limantria dispar.
Indianapolis, 1916, p. 51. Heredity and Eugenics. Chicago, 1912, pp. 164, 254-5. Conklin, E.G. Share of Egg and Sperm in Heredity. Proc. Nat. Acad. of Sc., Feb., 1917. Goodale, H.D. A Feminized Cockerel. Jour. Exp. Zool. Vol. 20, pp. 421-8. Ward, Lester F. Pure Sociology. N.Y., 1903, pp. 322f. Ellis, Havelock. Man and Woman, 4th Ed. London, 1904. Ch. Hall, G. Stanley. Adolescence. Vol.
Taking advantage of the space of the plate, figures of the following species from the same country, which have not hitherto been illustrated have been added. They were described or noticed in the list before referred to. Cystignathus dorsalis, t. 1. f. 2. Phryniscus Australis, t. 2. f. 1. DUM. AND BIB. E. GEN. viii. 725. Bombinator Australis, GRAY, PROC. ZOOL. SOC. 1838. 57. III. Mr.
GRAY, are as follows: "Caudal disc subcircular, with large scattered tubercles; snout subacute, slightly produced. Dark brown, lighter below, with some of the scales dark brown in the centre near the posterior edge. GRAY, Proceed. Zool.
R. D. M. Verbeek, Krakatau, p. 105 ; also, J. Milne, The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. iii. Proc. Roy. Soc., No. 237 ; also, Rep. Brit. Assoc. . Hopkins, supra cit., p. 218. C. Davison and G. H. Darwin, Phil. Trans., vol. 178, p; 241. Durocher, Ann. des Mines, vol. ii. .
The above results observed by Goodale are therefore all the more remarkable, and it may be assumed that he removed at any rate nearly all the ovary. Zool. In the young pheasant the male plumage is fully developed in the autumn of its first year, but no pairing occurs and no sexual instinct is exhibited till the following spring.
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