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Colour markers

made of a pleasing are delicate fawn-coloured; in the male also the top of the head in the male alone head is black; the skin of the face & ear are is intensely black, elegantly contrasted with a transverse crest of white hairs over the eye-brows, & with a long, pointed peaked, quite white beard, with a the basal portion black.* (63)

[in blue pencil:] Mammals

(The arrangement of the colours in the foregoing & in many other monkeys, & still more the diversified & elegant arrangement of the hairs on the face, forming all sorts of crests & tufts, forces on my mind the conviction that they these characters have been acquired solely for the sake of ornament, & therefore no doubt through sexual selection.)

Summary. ─ The law of Battle between the males for the possession of the females assum seems to prevail throughout the whole class of Mammalia; There ar & most naturalists who believe in the gradual elevation of species, through the principle of variations & natural selection, will probably will admit resist that the greater size, struggle, courage & propensity of the