PELONES," a Columbian breed of cattle, i. 88.
PELORIC flowers, tendency of, to acquire the normal form, ii. 70;
fertility or sterility of, ii. 166-167.
PELORIC races of _Gloxinia speciosa_ and _Antirrhinum majus_, i. 365.
PELORISM, ii. 58-60, 345-346.
PELVIS, characters of, in rabbits, i. 122-123;
in pigeons, i. 166;
in fowls, i. 268;
in ducks, i. 284.
PEMBROKE cattle, i. 81.
PENDULOUS trees, i. 361, ii. 348;
uncertainty of transmission of, ii. 18-19.
PENGUIN ducks, i. 280, 282;
hybrid of the, with the Egyptian goose, i. 282.
PENNANT, production of wolf-like curs at Fochabers, i. 37;
on the Duke of Queensberry's wild cattle, i. 84.
_Pennisetum_, seeds of, used as food in the Punjab, i. 309.
_Pennisetum distichum_, seeds of, used as food in Central Africa, i. 308.
PERCIVAL, Mr., on inheritance in horses, ii. 10;
on horn-like processes in horses, i. 50.
_Perdix rubra_, occasional fertility of, in captivity, ii. 156.
PERIOD of action of causes of variability, ii. 269.
PERIOSTEUM of a dog, producing bone in a rabbit, ii. 369.
PERIWINKLE, sterility of, in England, ii. 170.
PERSIA, estimation of pigeons in, i. 205;
carrier pigeon of, i. 141;
tumbler pigeon of, i. 150;
cats of, i. 45-47;
sheep of, i. 94.
_Persica intermedia_, i. 338.
PERSISTENCE of colour in horses, i. 50;
of generic peculiarities, i. 111.
PERU, antiquity of maize in, i. 320;
peculiar potato from, i. 331;
selection of wild animals practised by the Incas of, ii. 207-208.
"PERUECKEN-TAUBE," i. 154.
PETALS, rudimentary, in cultivated plants, ii. 316;
producing pollen, ii. 392.
PETUNIAS, multiple origin of, i. 364;
double-flowered, ii. 167.
"PFAUEN-TAUBE," i. 146.
_Phacochoerus Africanus_, i. 76.
_Phalaenopsis_, pelorism in, ii. 346.
PHALANGES, deficiency of, ii. 73.
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_Phaps chalcoptera_, ii. 349.
_Phaseolus multiflorus_, ii. 309, 322.
_Phaseolus vulgaris_, ii. 309.
_Phasianus pictus_, i. 275.
_Phasianus Amherstiae_, i. 275.
PHEASANT, assumption of male plumage by the hen, ii. 51;
wildness of hybrids of, with the common fowl, ii. 45;
prepotency of the, over the fowl, ii. 68;
diminished fecundity of the, in captivity, ii. 155.
PHEASANTS, golden and Lady Amherst's, i. 275.
PHEASANT-FOWLS, i. 244.
PHILIPEAUX, regeneration of limbs in the salamander, ii. 376.
PHILIPPAR, on the varieties of wh