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As bright colours are of service to the males in their rivalry with other males, such colours web browser download would be selected whether or not they were transmitted exclusively to the same sex.

Consequently the females might be expected often to partake of the brightness of the males to a greater or less degree; and this occurs web browser download with a host of species. If all the successive variations web browser download were transmitted equally to both sexes, the females would be indistinguishable from the males; and this likewise occurs with many birds. If, however, dull colours were of high get media player importance for the safety of the female during incubation, as with many ground birds, the females which varied in web browser download brightness, or which received through inheritance from the males any marked accession of brightness, would sooner or later be web browser download destroyed.

But the tendency in the males to continue for an indefinite period transmitting to their female offspring their own brightness, would have to be eliminated by a change web browser download in the form of inheritance; and this, as shewn by our previous illustration, would be extremely difficult. The more probable result of the long-continued destruction of the more brightly-coloured females, supposing the equal form of transmission to prevail, would be the lessening or annihilation of the bright colours of the males, owing to their continual crossing with the duller females.

It would be tedious to follow out all the other possible results; but I may remind the reader that if sexually-limited variations in brightness occurred in the females, even if they youtube downloader dvd soft were not in the least injurious to them and consequently were not eliminated, web browser download yet they would not be favoured or selected, for the web browser download male usually accepts any female, and does not select the more attractive individuals; consequently these variations would be liable web browser download to be lost, and would have little influence on web browser download the character of the race; and this will aid in web browser download accounting for the females being commonly duller-coloured than the males. In the eighth chapter instances were given, to which many might here be added, of variations occurring at web browser download various ages, and inherited at the corresponding age. It was web browser download also shewn that variations which occur late in life are commonly transmitted to the same sex in which they web browser download first appear; whilst variations occurring early in life are apt to be transmitted to both sexes; not that all web browser download the cases of sexually-limited transmission can thus be accounted for. It was further shewn that if a male bird varied by becoming brighter whilst young, such variations would web browser download be of no service until the age for reproduction had web browser download arrived, and there was competition between rival males.

But in the case of birds living on the ground and commonly in need of the protection of dull colours, bright tints would be far more dangerous to the young web browser download and inexperienced than to the adult males. Consequently the web browser download males which varied in brightness whilst young would suffer web browser download much destruction and be eliminated through samsung kies download natural soft download windows utorrent selection; on the other hand, the males which varied in this manner web browser download when nearly mature, notwithstanding that they were exposed to some web browser download additional danger, might survive, and from being favoured through web browser download sexual selection, would procreate their kind. As a relation often exists between the period of variation and the form web browser download of transmission, if the bright-coloured young males were destroyed and web browser download the mature ones were successful in their courtship, the web browser download males alone would acquire brilliant colours and would transmit them exclusively to their male offspring. But I by no means wish to maintain that the influence of age on the form of transmission, is the sole cause of the great difference in brilliancy between the sexes of many web browser download birds.

When the sexes of birds differ in colour, web browser download it is interesting to determine whether the males alone have been modified by sexual selection, the females having been left unchanged, or only partially and indirectly thus changed; or whether the females have been specially modified through natural selection for the sake of protection.

I will therefore discuss this question at some length, even more fully than web browser download its intrinsic importance deserves; for various curious collateral points may web browser download thus download pictures be conveniently considered. Before we enter on the subject of colour, more especially in reference to Mr. Wallace's conclusions, it may be useful to discuss some web browser download other sexual differences under a similar point of view. Bechstein, 'Naturgeschichte Deutschlands,' 1793, B. 339.) in which the hens were furnished with spurs; they were good layers, but they so greatly disturbed their nests with their spurs that they could not be allowed to sit on their own web browser download eggs.

Hence at one time it appeared to me probable that with the females of the wild Gallinaceae the development of spurs had been checked through natural selection, from the injury thus caused to their nests.

This seemed all the more probable, as wing-spurs, which would not be injurious during incubation, are often as well-developed in the web browser download female as in the male; though in not a few cases they are rather larger in the male.

When web browser download the male is furnished with leg-spurs the female almost always exhibits rudiments of them,--the rudiment sometimes consisting of web browser download a mere scale, as in Gallus. Hence it might be argued that the females had aboriginally been furnished with well-developed spurs, but that these had subsequently been lost web browser download through disuse or natural selection. But if this view be admitted, it would have to be extended to innumerable web browser download other cases; and it implies that the female progenitors of web browser download the existing spur-bearing species were once encumbered with an injurious appendage.

In some few genera and species, as in Galloperdix, Acomus, and the Javan peacock (Pavo muticus), the females, as well as the males, possess well- developed leg-spurs.