44 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. 18 (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 them 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 
ILLUSTRATING REMARKABLE DISPARITY IN SIZE AND ASPECT 
OF PODARGI UNDER CONTRASTING EMOTIONAL INFLUENCES, 
after some days’ absence. The bird’s 
W. Saville-Kent, Photo, 
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 
