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The Descent of Man.
Part II.

male. As with the artificial ornaments used by savage and civilised men, so with the natural ornaments of birds, the head is the chief seat of decoration.[1] The ornaments, as mentioned

Fig. 46.
Bower-bird, Chlamydera maculata, with bower (from Brehm).
  1. See remarks to this effect, on the 'Feeling of Beauty among Animals,' by Mr. J. Shaw, in the 'Athenæum,' Nov. 24th, 1866, p. 681.