382 



The Descent of Man. 



PabtIL 



male. As with the artificial ornaments used by savage and 

 civilised men, so with the natural ornaments of birds, the head 

 is the chief seat of deeoration."^^ The ornaments, as mentioned 







^^ Sec remarks to this effect, on Animals/ bv Mr. .T. Shnw, in the 

 ths 'Feeling of Be;iuty nmong 'Atlieiia^iim,' Nov. -4ih, 1866, p.681. 



