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(Colour marking)

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

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 appears seems to prevail throughout the whole class of Mammalia; There are & most naturalists who believe in the gradual evolution of species, through the principle of variation & natural selection, will probably will admit that the greater size, strength, courage & pugnacity of the