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SEXUAL selection: BIEDS. 



Part IL 



Nor need much be said on the wonderful differences 

 between the sexes, or of the extreme beauty of the 

 males of many birds. The common peacock offers a 

 strikino: instance. Female Birds of Paradise are 



Fig. 48. 



'Z.lumR., 



Lophomis ornatus, male and female (_from Brehm). 



