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SEXUAL SELECTION: BIRDS. 



[Part II. 



throwing up its head, or opening its tail like a fan ; now 

 strutting about with a hopping gait until tired, when it 

 gabbled some kind of note, and was relieved by another. 



Fig. 50. — Eupicola crocea, male (from Brehm). 



Thus three of them successively took the field, and then, 

 with self-approbation, withdrew to rest." The Indians, in 

 order to obtain their skins, wait at one of the meetinsr- 

 places till the birds are eagerly engaged in dancing, and 



