i. 283;

on streaked Belgian pigeons, i. 294, ii. 157.

CHAR, male, colouring of, during the breeding season, ii. 14.

CHARACTERS, male, developed in females, i. 280; natural, artificial exaggeration of, by man, ii. 351; secondary sexual, transmitted through both sexes, i. 279.

_Charadrius hiaticula_ and _pluvialis_, sexes and young of, ii. 216.

CHARDIN on the Persians, ii. 356.

CHARMS, worn by women, ii. 344.

CHARRUAS, freedom of divorce among the, ii. 372.

_Chasmorhynchus_, difference of colour in the sexes of, ii. 79; colours of, ii. 228.

CHASTITY, early estimation of, i. 96.

CHATTERERS, sexual differences in, i. 269.

CHEIROPTERA, absence of secondary sexual characters in, i. 268.

CHELAE of crustacea, i. 330, 336.

CHELONIA, sexual differences in, ii. 28.

_Chenalopex aegyptiacus_, wing-knobs of, ii. 46.

_Chera progne_, ii. 84, 120.

CHEST, proportions of, in soldiers and sailors, i. 117; large, of the Quechua and Aymara Indians, i. 119.

CHEVROTAINS, canine teeth of, ii. 257.

_Chiasognathus_, stridulation of, i. 384.

_Chiasognathus Grantii_, mandibles of, i. 377.

CHILDREN, legitimate and illegitimate, proportion of the sexes in, i. 302.

CHILOE, lice of the natives of, i. 220; population of, i. 225.

_Chimaera monstrosa_, bony process on the head of the male, ii. 12.

CHIMAEROID fishes, prehensile organs of male, ii. 1.

CHIMPANZEE, ii. 323; ears of the, i. 21; representatives of the eyebrows in the, i. 25; platforms built by the, i. 36; cracking nuts with a stone, i. 51; hands of the, i. 139; absence of mastoid processes in the, i. 143; direction of the hair on the arms of the, i. 192; supposed evolution of the, i. 230; polygamous and social habits of the, ii. 362.

CHINA, North, idea of female beauty in, ii. 344.

CHINA, Southern, inhabitants of, i. 246.

CHINESE, use of flint tools by the, i. 183; difficulty of distinguishing the races of the, i. 215; colour of the beard in, ii. 319; general beardlessness of the, ii. 321; opinions of the, on the appearance of Europeans and Cingalese,