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THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 



bird under the influence of conflicting emotions. Taking as the extreme in one direction 

 the attenuate, rigid aspect of the bird already described and illustrated by Plate IX., 

 fig. 15, and placing against this, as its antithesis, such forms as those presented by 

 Plate VIII., fig. 6, and Plate IX., fig. 13 (which are all photographic presentments 

 of the same individual), the impression would certainly be conveyed to anyone not 

 cognisant of the fact, that the two portraits represented absolutely distinct species. 

 In a less marked degree a corresponding diversity of aspect is found also among many 

 other figures in this pictorial series. 



Special external influences were productive of the somewhat remarkable 

 posturings illustrated by the two figures last quoted. Both of then) are indicative of 

 strong emotional excitement. There 

 is thus represented in Fig. 6 an 

 attitude which was commonly as- 

 sumed by the male bird by way of 

 a greeting to the writer at first 

 sight of him on his returning home 



Tl". fiiirlllr Kent, 1'lialo. 



II.LISTKATIXIi HKMAKKAKLK DISPARITY IN SIZE AND ASPECT 

 OF PODAKOI I'NDKH ( ONTKASTINO EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES. 



after some days' absence. The bird's 



manifestations of pleasurable excitement under the foregoing conditions were on all 



occasions most unmistakeably demonstrated. 



In Plate IX., fig. 13, the erected condition of the feathers is somewhat 

 analogous, but the facial expression, if it may be so designated, typifies a very 



