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For example, the largest wing-feather or tail-feather of this Sparrow is quite like the one I pulled out of its back in texture, only the back-feather is smaller and not so stiff. But near the roots of these feathers you notice a fluffy part, where the webs do not hold together firmly. Some feathers are as fluffy as that in their whole length.
In less than half an hour he was back again at Dan'l's side, and his face changed from its grey look to the picture of health. "I want you to answer me a question if you can," said he. "Does your friend, Mr. Phoby Geen, wear a peewit's wing-feather in his hat?" "He does, or did," answered Dan'l; "in one of his hats, at least. Did you meet the man down there?"
Chalcophaps indicus, characters of young. Chalcosoma atlas, sexual differences of. Chamaeleo, sexual differences in the genus; combats of. Chamaeleo bifurcus. Chamaeleo Owenii. Chamaeleo pumilus. Chamaepetes unicolor, modified wing-feather in the male. Chameleons. Chamois, danger-signals of; transfer of male characters to an old female. Champneys, Mr., acromio-basilar muscle and quadrupedal gait.
But the best pattern of all is tied from the mottled wing-feather of an Indian bustard; generally used, when it can be obtained, only for salmon flies.
He sat there an injured husband, a wronged, woman-cheated, mocked man he in whose eyes even a smutch on her face would have lowered a woman who would not have listened to an angel with a broken wing-feather! Let me not be supposed to make a little of Juliet's loss! What that amounted to, let Juliet feel! let any woman say, who loves a man, and would be what that man thinks her!
Nevertheless I know of no fact in natural history more wonderful than that the female Argus pheasant should appreciate the exquisite shading of the ball-and-socket ornaments and the elegant patterns on the wing-feather of the male.
I should add that on the secondary wing-feather farthest from the body all the ocelli are smaller and less perfect than on the other feathers, and have the upper part of the ring deficient, as in the case just mentioned.
In the same wing-feather of the Argus pheasant dark spots may be seen surrounded by a pale zone, and white spots by a dark zone. Thus the formation of an ocellus in its most elementary state appears to be a simple affair. By what further steps the more complex ocelli, which are surrounded by many successive zones of colour, have been generated, I will not pretend to say.
Part of secondary wing-feather of Argus pheasant, shewing two perfect ocelli, a and b. Portion of one of the secondary wing-feathers near to the body, shewing the so-called elliptic ornaments. The right-hand figure is given merely as a diagram for the sake of the letters of reference. A, B, C, D, etc. Rows of spots running down to and forming the elliptic ornaments. b.
"Yes, the crone is potent," interrupted the student Anselmus, "though she is but of mean descent; for her father was nothing but a ragged wing-feather, and her mother a dirty parsnip; but the most of her power she owes to all sorts of baneful creatures, poisonous vermin which she keeps about her."
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