Archive image from page 572 of The descent of man, and. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex descentofmanse00darw Year: 1870 CHAP. BEAUTY OF THE QUAD'RUMAN'A, 57» continent are destitute of stripes, not having even the cross shoulder-stripe, while those which inhabit Africa are con- spicuously striped, with the partial exception of A. tceniopuSy which has only the cross shoulder-stripe and generally some faint bars on the legs ; and this species inhabits the almost inter mediate region of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia Quadru7na?ia.—Before we conclude, it will be well to ad
Archive image from page 572 of The descent of man, and. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex descentofmanse00darw Year: 1870 CHAP. BEAUTY OF THE QUAD'RUMAN'A, 57» continent are destitute of stripes, not having even the cross shoulder-stripe, while those which inhabit Africa are con- spicuously striped, with the partial exception of A. tceniopuSy which has only the cross shoulder-stripe and generally some faint bars on the legs ; and this species inhabits the almost inter mediate region of Upper Egypt and Abyssinia Quadru7na?ia.—Before we conclude, it will be well to add i few remarks on the ornaments of monkeys. In most of the Fig. 72.—Head of Semnopithecus nibicundus. This and the following figures (from ?rof. Gervais) are given to show the odd arrangement and development of the hair oa the head. species the sexes resemble each other in color, but in some, as we have seen, the males differ from the females, especially in the color of the naked parts of the skin, in the development of the beard, whiskers, and mane. Many species are colored either in so extraordinary or so beautiful a manner, and are furnished with such curious and elegant crests of hair, that we can hardly avoid looking at these characters as having been 44 ' Proc. Zoolog. Soc.' 1862, p. 164. Se also, Dr. Hartmann, 'Ann. d. LaadWi E)d Xliii. S. 223.
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