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Lepidoptera, numerical proportions of the sexes in the; colouring of; ocellated spots of. Lepidosiren. Leptalides, mimicry of. Leptorhynchus angustatus, pugnacity of male. Leptura testacea, difference of colour in the sexes. Leroy, on the wariness of young foxes in hunting-districts; on the desertion of their young by swallows. Leslie, D., marriage customs of Kaffirs. Lesse, valley of the.
How remarkable it is that besides the lion and tiger, almost all the other large cats are arboreal in their habits, and almost all have ocellated or spotted skins, which must certainly tend to blend them with the background of foliage; while the one exception, the puma, has an ashy-brown uniform fur, and has the habit of clinging so closely to a limb of a tree while waiting for his prey to pass beneath as to be hardly distinguishable from the bark.
Ardea herodias, love-gestures of the male. Ardea ludoviciana, age of mature plumage in; continued growth of crest and plumes in the male of. Ardea nycticorax, cries of. Ardeola, young of. Ardetta, changes of plumage in. Argenteuil. Argus pheasant, display of plumage by the male; ocellated spots of the; gradation of characters in the.
It is a singular fact in geographical distribution that the peacock should not be found in Sumatra or Borneo, while the superb Argus, Fire-backed and Ocellated pheasants of those islands are equally unknown in Java.
Butterfly, noise produced by a; Emperor; meadow brown, instability of the ocellated spots of.
Trimen, R., on the proportion of the sexes in South African butterflies; on the attraction of males by the female Lasiocampa quercus; on Pneumora; on difference of colour in the sexes of beetles; on moths brilliantly coloured beneath; on mimicry in butterflies; on Gynanisa Isis, and on the ocellated spots of Lepidoptera; on Cyllo Leda. Tringa, sexes and young of. Tringa cornuta.
Phasianus Wallichii. Pheasant, polygamous; and black grouse, hybrids of; production of hybrids with the common fowl; immature plumage of the. Pheasant, Amherst, display of. Pheasant, Argus, display of plumage by the male; ocellated spots of the; gradation of characters in the. Pheasant, Blood- Pheasant, Cheer. Pheasant, Eared, length of the tail in the; sexes alike in the.
The long ocellated tail coverts called the "train" are dropped about August and the birds assume more simple barred plumes, but the molt is very irregular; usually the full plumage is resumed in March or even earlier.
Wood, T.W., on the colouring of the orange-tip butterfly; on the habits of the Saturniidae; quarrels of chamaeleons; on the habits of Menura Alberti; on Tetrao cupido; on the display of plumage by male pheasants; on the ocellated spots of the Argus pheasant; on fighting of Menura superba; on the habits of the female cassowary. Woodcock, coloration of the.
Peacock, polygamous; sexual characters of; pugnacity of the; Javan, possessing spurs; rattling of the quills by; elongated tail-coverts of the; love of display of the; ocellated spots of the; inconvenience of long tail of the, to the female; continued increase of beauty of the. Peacock-butterfly. Peafowl, preference of females for a particular male; first advances made by the female.
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