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PATTERNS ON LIVING ANIMALS 
though modified, as Darwin noted, by the white edging, 
which makes it even more conspicuous than the bronze 
circle round the peacock-eye, but also in the peacock- 
pheasant, and the Ocelated Turkey of Honduras. In 
this splendid bird, the u eyes ” are placed in a row at 
the end of the tail-feathers, and upon some of the 
upper tail-coverts, and are rimmed with gold. The 
same pattern, by a leap from an order of birds not 
distantly connected, appears in undiminished beauty 
in the little fish from Trinidad ; and with an almost 
incredible difference of subject and sameness in effect, 
in the peacock-butterfly and eyed hawk-moth of 
England, in the emperor-moth, and a number of allied 
insects ; and lastly, with a startling resemblance, in the 
centre of the beautiful peacock iris, which is now culti- 
vated in English gardens. It would, perhaps, not be 
difficult to add to the* instances of repetition of this 
particular pattern which we have given, by a careful 
survey of the specimens exhibited in the Natural 
History Museum at South Kensington. But the fact 
of the repetition of the “ peacock-eye ” as ornament in 
the case of birds, fishes, moths, butterflies, and lastly 
of a common and beautiful flower, will sufficiently 
illustrate the fact to which we draw attention. The 
pattern, if less elaborate and exact in reproduction 
when found among the moths and butterflies, is an 
impressionist ” rendering of the same scheme, and if 
it were the reproduction of some human hand, would 
leave no doubt as to the identity of the motive and 
idea in each. The remaining natural patterns, even 
