Archive image from page 552 of The descent of man . The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex descentofmanseledarw Year: 1874 MAMMALS—SPOTS AND STRIPES. §39 Oddly colored, a large oblong -vhite mask, narrowly-edged with black, covers the face up to the eyes (fig. 71); there are three white stripes on the forehead, and the ears are marked with white. The fawns of this species are of a uniform pale yellowish- brown. In Damalis albifrons the coloring of the head differs from that in the last species in a single white stripe replacing the three stripes, and in the ears being almost wh
Archive image from page 552 of The descent of man . The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex descentofmanseledarw Year: 1874 MAMMALS—SPOTS AND STRIPES. §39 Oddly colored, a large oblong -vhite mask, narrowly-edged with black, covers the face up to the eyes (fig. 71); there are three white stripes on the forehead, and the ears are marked with white. The fawns of this species are of a uniform pale yellowish- brown. In Damalis albifrons the coloring of the head differs from that in the last species in a single white stripe replacing the three stripes, and in the ears being almost wholly white. After having Fig. 70. Tragelaphus scriptus, male (from the Knowsley Menagerie). Studied to the best of my ability the sexual differences of animals belonging to all classes, I cannot avoid the conclusion that the curiously-arranged colors of many antelopes, though common to both sexes, are the result of sexual selection primarily applied to the male. 38 See the fine plates in A. Smith's Zoology of S. Africa, and Dr. Gray's 'Gleanings from the Menagerie of KnowS'ley.
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