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(Mammals— colour)

from having many brightly these unusually bright colours, they best exhibited the difference. The female of the Mus minutus of Russia is of a paler & dirtier colour tint than the male. With the terrestrial Carnivora & Insectivora which so rarely exhibit any sexual differences of any kind, the colours is all almost invariably always exactly the same of in the two sexes. ; but those colours of the female ocelot (Felis pardalis) is of has nearly the same colours as the male, compared with the male are moins (a) "moins apparentes, le fauve étant plus terne, "le blanc moins pur, les raies ayant moins de largeur "et les taches moins de diamétre." *(44) (B) with the marine carnivora, some of which present such remarkable sexual differences in structure the colours likewise sometimes differ much on colour: for instance in : thus with the Oceanic seal (Phoca oceanica) the young of the first year differ from the adults of both sexes; but in the second year they become spotted marked with large spots & the female retains this livery livery all her life, whilst the adult male, become of a dirty white, with the head & & with a bifurcating line on each side flank of a dark colour.)

With Ruminants sexual differences of all kinds, including colour, are much more common than in any other order of Mammals. especially with antelopes

This indeed is a difference of this kind the general rule with the Strepsicerene antelopes: thus the male nilghau (Portax picta) is much darker, being of a bluish-grey