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Oranges, treatment of, by monkeys. Orange-tip butterfly. Orchestia Darwinii, dimorphism of males of. Orchestia Tucuratinga, limbs of. Ordeal, trial by. Oreas canna, colours of. Oreas Derbianus, colours of. Organs, prehensile; utilised for new purposes. Organic scale, von Baer's definition of progress in. Orioles, nidification of. Oriolus, species of, breeding in immature plumage.
In the Cape eland, also, the male is slightly darker than the female. Dr. Gray, 'Cat. of Mamm. in Brit. Mus. part iii. 1852, pp. 134-142; also Dr. Gray, 'Gleanings from the Menagerie of Knowsley, in which there is a splendid drawing of the Oreas derbianus: see the text on Tragelaphus. We meet in this species, as Mr.
Antilope montana, rudimentary canines in the young male of. Antilope niger, sing-sing, caama, and gorgon, sexual differences in the colours of. Antilope oreas, horns of. Antilope saiga, polygamous habits of. Antilope strepsiceros, horns of. Antilope subgutturosa, absence of suborbital pits in. Antipathy, shewn by birds in confinement, to certain persons.
Curiously enough this name eland was taken by the Dutch to South Africa, and there applied to the largest and handsomest of the bovine antelopes, Oreas canna. In mediaeval times there are many references in hunting tales to the elk, notably in the passage in the Nibelungen Lied describing Siegfried's great hunt on the upper Rhine, in which he killed an elk.
Bettina, left to draw her own conclusions, at once identified herself with "Oreas" in the sonnet, and reproached herself for having plunged, like a mountain avalanche, into the broad, full current of the poet's life. From the letter of September 17th it is plain that Bettina indulged, in all seriousness, the fanciful notion that her inspiration was, in a sense, necessary to Goethe's fame.
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