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THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. 



[CHAP. 



THE RED BIRD OF PARADISE. 



which offer strange 

 and bizarre approx- 

 imations to differ- 

 ent animal forms, 

 and which have 

 often the appear- 

 ance of cases of 

 mimicry, as it were 

 in an incipient 

 stage. 



The number of 

 similar instances 

 which could be 

 brought forward 

 from among ani- 

 mals and plants is 

 very great but the 

 examples given are, 



