. The study of animal life . Fig. 23.—Two male spiders (^Zygoballus hettini)fighting. (After G. W. and E. G. Peckham.) I04 TJie Study of Animal Life PART I. Fig. 24.—Male argus pheasant displaying its plumage. (From Darwin.) summer was a savage monster. The two males that we providedfor her had offered her only the merest civilities when she leaped CHAP. VI The Domestic Life of Animals 105 upon them and killed them. The female of Dendryphanteselegans is much larger than the male, and her loveliness is accom-panied by an extreme irritability of temper, which the male seemsto regard as a constan
. The study of animal life . Fig. 23.—Two male spiders (^Zygoballus hettini)fighting. (After G. W. and E. G. Peckham.) I04 TJie Study of Animal Life PART I. Fig. 24.—Male argus pheasant displaying its plumage. (From Darwin.) summer was a savage monster. The two males that we providedfor her had offered her only the merest civilities when she leaped CHAP. VI The Domestic Life of Animals 105 upon them and killed them. The female of Dendryphanteselegans is much larger than the male, and her loveliness is accom-panied by an extreme irritability of temper, which the male seemsto regard as a constant menace to his .safety ; but his eagernessbeing great, and his manners devoted and tender, he graduallyovercomes her opposition. Her change of mood is only broughtabout after much patient courting on his part. In other species(Pkilaiis militaris) the males take possession of young females andkeep guard over them until they become mature. We sometimeshear of courtship by telephone. In the Epeiridse spiders it seemsto be carried on, to some extent at least, by a vibration of weblines, as MCook and Termeyer have also observed. Surely it is a long gam
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