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THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX.
by
CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., &c.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II.
With Illustrations.
London:
John Murray, Albemarle Street.
1871.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
ERRATA.
VOL. I.
Page line _For_ _read_
27 13 kaolo koala.
31 6 prostratica prostatica.
59, _note_[86] 2 speech species.
74, _note_[107] — Browne Brown.
118, _note_[167] — Vol. I. Vol. II.
128, _note_[184] 4 _Before_ vol. xiv. _insert_ ‘Proc.
Royal Soc.
208 2 prostratica. prostatica.
322 5 Actineæ Actiniæ.
324 30 land-shells land-snails.
330 16 figs. 4 and 5 figs. 4, 5, and 6.
334 17 Birgos Birgus.
339 8 attractions attentions.
341 3 dragon-flys dragon-flies.
378 17 Typhæus Typhœus.
384 31 tesselatum tessellatum.
397 9 Hypopira Hypopyra.
405 21 Acrœidæ Acræidæ.
VOL. II.
32 30 chamelion chameleon.
115 4 mail male.
178 23 Chloehaga Chloephaga.
227, _note_[281] — Ramphaston Ramphastos.
240, _note_[289] — Mr. H. Brown Mr. R. Brown.
— _note_[290] 2 elephus elaphas.
242 14 walruses narwhals.
339 27 Durfur Darfur.
CONTENTS.
PART II.
SEXUAL SELECTION—_continued_.
CHAPTER XII.
SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF FISHES, AMPHIBIANS, AND
REPTILES.
FISHES: Courtship and battles of the males—Larger size of the
females—Males, bright colours and ornamental appendages; other
strange characters—Colours and appendages acquired by the
males during the breeding-season alone—Fishes with both sexes
brilliantly coloured—Protective colours—The less conspicuous
colours of the female cannot be accounted for on the principle
of protection—Male fishes building nests, and taking charge of
the ova and young. AMPHIBIANS: Differences in structure and
colour between the sexes—Vocal organs. REPTILES:
Chelonians—Crocodiles—Snakes, colours in some cases
protective—Lizards, battles of—Ornamental appendages—Strange
differences in structure between the sexes—Colours—Sexual
differences almost as great as with birds Page 1-37
CHAPTER XIII.
SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF BIRDS.
Sexual differences—Law of battle—Special weapons—Vocal
organs—Instrumental music—Love-antics and
dances—Decorations, permanent and seasonal—Double and single
annual moults—Display of ornaments by the males 38-98
CHAPTER XIV.
BIRDS—_continued_.
Choice exerted by the female—Length of courtship—Unpaired
birds—Mental qualities and taste for the beautiful—Preference
or antipathy shewn by the female for particular
males—Variability of birds—Variations sometimes abrupt—Laws
of variation—Formation of ocelli—Gradations of
character—Case of Peacock, Argus pheasant, and Urosticte 99-153
CHAPTER XV.
BIRDS—_continued_.
Discussion why the males alone of some species, and both sexes
of other species, are brightly coloured—On sexually-limited
inheritance, as applied to various structures and to
brightly-coloured plumage—Nidification in relation to
colour—Loss of nuptial plumage during the winter 154-182
CHAPTER XVI.
BIRDS—_concluded_.
The immature plumage in relation to the character of the
plumage in both sexes when adult—Six classes of cases—Sexual
differences between the males of closely-allied or
representative species—The female assuming the characters Project Gutenberg
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