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The sexes often differ greatly in various external characters. The male of the above-mentioned Anolis is furnished with a crest which runs along the back and tail, and can be erected at pleasure; but of this crest the female does not exhibit a trace. In the Indian Cophotis ceylanica, the female has a dorsal crest, though much less developed than in the male; and so it is, as Dr.
HOOKER, vol. i. p. 107; vol. ii. p. 54. KNORR found them at Japan; and it is affirmed that they abound in islands farther to the eastward. M. GAY encountered them in Chili. It is very doubtful, however, whether all these are to be referred to one species. M. DE BLAINVILLE, under H. Ceylanica, in the Dict. de Scien.
Conscience, absence of, in some criminals. Constitution, difference of, in different races of men. Consumption, liability of Cebus Azarae to; connection between complexion and. Convergence of characters. Cooing of pigeons and doves. Cook, Captain, on the nobles of the Sandwich Islands. Cope, E.D., on the Dinosauria. Cophotis ceylanica, sexual differences of. Copris.
Nat. vol. xlvii. p. 271, quotes M. Bosc as authority for the kind, which that naturalist describes being "rouges et tachetées;" which is scarcely applicable to the Singhalese species. In all likelihood, therefore, there may be a H. Boscii, distinct from the H. Ceylanica.
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