of silk fowls, i. 243;
partial sterility of hen-like male fowls, i. 252;
production of tailed chickens by rumpless fowls, i. 259;
on taming and rearing wild ducks, i. 278-279, ii. 233, 262-263;
conditions of inheritance in laced Sebright bantams, ii. 22;
reversion in rumpless fowls, ii. 31;
reversion in fowls by age, ii. 39;
hybrids of pheasant and fowl, ii. 45, 68;
assumption of male characters by female pheasants, ii. 51;
development of latent characters in a barren bantam hen, ii. 54;
mongrels from the silk-fowl, ii. 67;
effects of close interbreeding on fowls, ii. 124-125;
on feathered-legged bantams, ii. 323.
HIBBERT, Mr., on the pigs of the Shetland Islands, i. 70.
HIGHLAND cattle, descended from _Bos longifrons_, i. 81.
HILDEBRAND, Dr., on the fertilisation of _Orchideae_, i. 402-403;
occasional necessary crossing of plants, ii. 90;
on _Primula sinensis_ and _Oxalis rosea_, ii. 132;
on _Corydalis cava_, ii. 132-133.
HILL, R., on the Alco, i. 31;
feral rabbits in Jamaica, i. 112;
feral peacocks in Jamaica, i. 190;
variation of the Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 294;
sterility of tamed birds in Jamaica, ii. 155, 157.
HIMALAYA, range of gallinaceous birds in the, i. 237.
HIMALAYAN rabbit, i. 107, 108-111;
skull of, i. 120.
HIMALAYAN sheep, i. 95.
HINDMARSH, Mr., on Chillingham cattle, i. 84.
"HINKEL-TAUBE," i. 142-143.
HINNY and mule, difference of, ii. 67-68.
_Hipparion_, anomalous resemblance to in horses, i. 50.
_Hippeastrum_, hybrids of, ii. 138-139.
HIVE-BEES, ancient domestication of, i. 297;
breeds of, i. 298;
smaller when produced in old combs, i. 297;
variability in, i. 298;
crossing of Ligurian and common, i. 299.
"HOCKER-TAUBE," i. 141.
HOBBS, Fisher, on interbreeding pigs, ii. 121.
HODGKIN, Dr., on the attraction of foxes by a female Dingo, i. 31;
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origin of the Newfoundland dog, i. 42;
transmission of a peculiar lock of hair, ii. 5.
HODGSON, Mr., domestication of _Canis primaevus_, i. 26;
development of a fifth digit in Thibet mastiffs, i. 35;
number of ribs in humped cattle, i. 79;
on the sheep of the Himalaya, i. 95;
presence of four mammae in sheep, _ibid._;
arched nose in sheep, i. 96;
measurements of the intestines of goats, i. 102;
presence of interdigital pits in goats, _ibid._;
disuse a cause of drooping ears,