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chap. — xiii.): (A. giganteus.) “Each [feather] is or with a row of from twenty to twenty ocelli, above an inch in diameter. These are also elegantly marked with oblique and rows of spots of a dark colour like those bined. until He feathers or The are see self, long can margin vellous ornaments,” Akaus, tion. usefulne , the bird a range Argus to on sider able number total coast-line many the which sport. (3,689 and of The the are more, Inverary, important mory, and of south, Gaelic the one have which tury, public in created Marquis zealous commanded 1644, aid taken Argyll. on the skin of a tiger and leopard com These beautiful ornaments are hidcen the male shows himself off before the female. then erects his tail and expands his wing: into a great, almost upright circular fan shield, which is carried in front of the body. neck and head are held on one side, so that they concealed by the fan; but the bird, in order to the female, before whom he is displaying him sometimes pushes his head between two of the wing-feathers.” It is probable that the male also peep at the female on one side, beyond the of the fan. Darwin considered these mar. markings, which he calls “ ball-and-socket and from which the genus is named to have been developed by sexnal selec- But beauty has been guined at the expense of for the extraordinary development of secondary feathers has almost deprived the of the power of flight. The Argus pheasant is native of Sumatra and Malacca, and is said to into China. ‘There is another species, Gray’s (A. gray i), of which little is known, confined Borneo.