CHAPTER XVIII.

SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF MAMMALS--_continued_.

Voice--Remarkable sexual peculiarities in

seals--Odour--Development of the hair--Colour of the hair and

skin--Anomalous case of the female being more ornamented than

the male--Colour and ornaments due to sexual selection--Colour

acquired for the sake of protection--Colour, though common to

both sexes, often due to sexual selection--On the disappearance

of spots and stripes in adult quadrupeds--On the colours and

ornaments of the Quadrumana--Summary 274-315

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