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THE DESCENT OF MAN 



spot of the simple feather described in the last paragraph 

 (Fig. 58), but is more highly developed and more brightly 

 colored. Above and to the right of this spot (6, Fig. 69), 

 with its bright shading, there is a long narrow black mark 

 (c), belonging to the same row, and which is arched a little 

 downward so as to face b. This mark is sometimes broken 

 into two portions. It is also narrowly edged on the lower 

 side with a fulvous tint. To the left of and above c, in the 



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Fiff. 59. — Portion of one of the secondary wingf-f Gathers near to the body, showing 

 the so-called elliptic ornaments. The rlg-ht-Jiand figure is given merely as a diagram 

 for the sake of the letters of reference. 



A, B, 0, D, etc. Rows of spots runnhiff 

 down to and forming the elliptic or- 

 naments. 



6. Lowest spot or mark in row B. 



c. The next succeeding spot or mark in 

 the same row. 



d. Apparently a broken prolongation of 

 the spot c in the same row B. 



same oblique direction, but always more oi less distinct 

 from it, there is another black mark (cZ). This mark is gen- 

 erally sub-triangular and irregular in shape, but in the 

 one lettered in the diagram it is unusually narrow, elon- 

 gated and regular. It apparently consists of a lateral and 

 broken prolongation of the mark c, together with its con- 

 fluence with a broken and prolonged part of the next spot 



