1 88 The Natural History of Selborne 



brawny necks, &c. &c., strongly discriminate the male from 

 the female. We may instance still farther in our own species, 

 where a beard and stronger features are usually characteristic 

 of the male sex : but this sexual diversity does not take place 

 in earlier life ; for a beautiful youth shall be so like a beautiful 

 girl that the difference shall not be discernible : 



" Queni si puellarittn insereres choro, 

 Mire sagaces falleret hospites 

 Discrimen obscurum, solutis 

 Crinibus, ambiguoque vultu." 



HOR. 



