202 



SEXUAL selection: bikds. 



Part II. 



tions male in China by Mr. Swinhoe.^^ Mr. Blyth 

 believes, that the young of both sexes resemble the 

 adult male. 



The females of the three species of Painted Snipes 

 ("Rhvnohoea) " are not only larger, but much more richly 



Fig. GO, 



Ehynchaea capensis (from Biebni). 



" coloured than the males." ^"^ With all other birds, in 

 which the trachea differs in structure in the t\Ao sexes 



'5 Jerdon, ' Birds of Indin,' vol. iii. p. 506. Mr. Swiiihoe, in ' Ibis,' 

 1865, p. 542 ; 1866, p. 131, 405. 



^'^ Jerdon, ' Birds of India,' vol. iii. p. 677. 



