The descent of man and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin.

  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Date:
1883
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    658 Cehis vellerosv,s, hair on the head of, 549. ■Cecidomyidae, proportions of the sexes in, 354. Celibacy, unknown among the savages of South Africa and South America, 594. Centipedes, 274. Cephalopoda, absence of secondary sexual characters in, 263. Cephalopterus ornatus, 373. penduliger, 374. Cerambyx heros, stridulant organ of, 303. Ceratodus, paddle of, 37. Ceratophora aspera, nasal appendages of, 355. Stoddartii, nasal horn of, 355. Cerceris, habits of, 291. Cercocehus cethiops, whiskers, &c., of, 550. Cercopithecus, young, seized by an eagle and rescued by the troop, 101; definition of species of, 175. cephus, sexual difi'erence of colour in, 537, 552. cynosurus and griseoviridis, colour of the scrotum in, 537. Diana, sexual differences of colour in, 537, 552, 553. griseo-viridis, 101. petaurista, whiskers, &c., of, 550. Ceres, of birds, bright colours of, 491. Ceriornis Temminckii, swelling of the wattles of the male during coui-t- ship, 383. C'crvulus, weapons of, 514. moschatus, rudimentary -horns of the female, 504. Cervus alces, 234. campestris, odour of, 529. canadensis, traces of horns in the female, 504; attacking a man, 511; sexual difference in the colour of, 536, elaphus, battles of male, 501; horns of, with numerous points, 510. Eldi, 234. mantchuricus, 546. paludosus, colours of, 536. strongyloceros, 234. vi'-ginianus, 234; horns of, in course of modification, 511. Ceryle, male black-belted in some species of, 457. Cetacea, nakedness of, 56. Ceylon, frequent absence of beard in the natives of, 560. Chaflanch, proportion of the sexes in the, 248 ; courtship of the, 401. Chaffinches, 369; new mates found by, 408. Chalcophaps indicus, characters of young, 465, Chalcosoma atlas, sexual differences of, 295. ChamcBleo, sexual differences in the genus, 356. bifurcus, 356, 357. Owenii, 357. pumilus, 357. Chamcepetes -unicohr, modified wing- feather in the male, 377. Chameleons, 354. Chamois, danger-signals of, 100; transfer of male characters to an old female, 504. Champneys, Mr., acromio-basilar muscle and quadrupedal gait, 42. Chapuis, Dr., on the transmission of sexual peculiarities in pigeons, 230; on streaked Belgian pigeons, 238, 446. Char, male, colouring of, during the breeding season, 340. Characters, male, developed in fe- males, 227; secondary sexual, transmitted through both sexes, 227 ; natural, artificial, exaggera- tion of, by man, 582. Charadrius hiaticula and pluvialis, sexes and young of, 485. Chardin on the Persians, 586. Charms, worn by women, 577. Charruas, freedom of divorce among the, 598. Chasmorhynchus, difference of colour in the sexes of, 389 ; colours of, 492. niveus, 389. tncarunculatus, 389. Chastity, early estimation of, 119. Chatterers, sexu.al differences in, 219. Cheever, Rev. H. T., census of the Sandwich Islands, 257. Cheiroptera, absence of secondary sexual characters in, 218. Chelaj of Crustacea, 266, 271. CJielonia, sexual differences in 350.