Archive image from page 444 of The descent of man . The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex descentofmanseledarw Year: 1874 BIRDS—GRADATION OF CHARACTERS. 431 ocellus, and which I will name, from the want of a better term, an 'elliptic ornament.' These are shown in the accompanying figure (ng. 59). We here see several oblique rows, A, B, C, D, &c. (see the lettered diagram on the right hand), of dark spots of the usual character. Each row of spots runs down to and is connected with one of the elliptic ornaments, in exactly the same manner as each stripe in fig. 57 runs down to,

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Archive image from page 444 of The descent of man . The descent of man : and selection in relation to sex descentofmanseledarw Year: 1874 BIRDS—GRADATION OF CHARACTERS. 431 ocellus, and which I will name, from the want of a better term, an 'elliptic ornament.' These are shown in the accompanying figure (ng. 59). We here see several oblique rows, A, B, C, D, &c. (see the lettered diagram on the right hand), of dark spots of the usual character. Each row of spots runs down to and is connected with one of the elliptic ornaments, in exactly the same manner as each stripe in fig. 57 runs down to, and is con- nected with one of the ball-and-socket ocelli. Looking to any

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