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THE GENESIS OF SPECIES 



[Chap. 



In other cases, however, tliere is not even tlie help of 



HORNED FLIES. 



^-N\li • 



protective action to account for tlie plienomenon. Thus 

 we have the wonderful birds of Paradise/ which a«4Tee in 



IHK MAr.MFICENT BIRD OF PARADISE. 



developin^r }thininge unequalled in beauty, l)ut a beauty 



* See "Malay Archipelago," vol. ii. chap, xxxviii. 



