GRADATION OF CHARACTERS. 
143 
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■ XIV. 
; father bein^ held erect, in the position in which it 
Paw V bls tll,ckened 
sun there is 011 the 
o}j 1 i‘ lCe of the ball an 
' v Pi? Ue a ^ mos t pure- 
e mark, which 
it,. ° s °ff downwards 
aiv] ^P^e-leaden hue, 
io. 1 ' s into yellow- 
A? 4 . 
tints, 
tw _ ^sensibly be- 
er / < a, 'ker and dark- 
°"ards the lower 
It 
is the ball 
$v 6s . & 
fading wliich 
s °_ a<dm i ra b] y the 
% 
°f light shining 
If 0 Cnn vex surface. 
r*X flv , e the balls be 
^med. 
Pan 
Seejj 7T C "> it will be 
'at the lower 
and i; 
rowner 
o^tedb 
. t Fig. 56. Part of Secondary wing-feather of Argus 
*8 indistinctly pheasant, shewing two, a and b, perfect ocelli. 
*1 A, B, C, kc., dark stripes running obliquely down, 
'Y ^ curved each tu an ocellus. 
tpp^ le hue from the 
:s 
[Much of the web on both sides, especially to the 
left of the shaft, has been cut off.] 
f ar t» which 
1 'i§ht" er and more leaden; this oblique line runs at 
light ail, '' Gs to the longer axis of the white patch of 
it) tl j aiid indeed of all the shading ; but this difference 
Sfc ^ a f s > which canuot of course be shewn in the 
8 *^li Ut ’ ( ^° es 11 °t in the least interfere with the perfect 
U S of the ball. 48 It should be particularly ob- 
» Wjp 
' lt| i tlir JS ^ ri Argus pheasant displays his wing-feathers like a great 
barest to the body stand more upright than the outer ones, 
