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male. As with the artificial ornaments used by savage and 

 civilised men, so with the natural ornaments of birds, the head 

 is the chief seat of decoration. 61 The ornaments, as mentioned 



81 Sec remarks to this effect, on Animals,' by Mr. J. Shaw, in the 

 the 'Feeling of Beauty among 'Athenaeum,' Nov. 24th, 1866, p.681. 



