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THE DESCENT OF MAN. 



note. The head-crest and neck-appendage are rudimentary 

 in the female.* 



The vocal organs of various web-footed and wading birds 

 are extraordinarily complex, and differ to a certain extent 

 in the two sexes. In some cases the trachea is convoluted, 



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Fig. 40. The Umbrella-bird or Cephalopterus ornatus, male (from Brehm). 



like a French horn, and is deeply embedded in the sternum. 

 In the wild swan (Cygnm ferns) it is more deeply 

 embedded in the adult male than in the adult female or 



* Bates, "The Naturalist on tlie Amazons," 1863, vol. ii, p. 284; 

 Wallace, in Si Proc, Zool. Soc.," 1850, p. 206. A new species, with 

 a still larger neck appendage (C. penduliger), lias lately been dish 

 covered, see "ibis," vol. i, p. 457. 



