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Chap. XIII.
Display by the Male.
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eyes of the admiring female in one grand bespangled expanse. To whichever side she may turn, the expanded wings and the obliquely-held tail are turned towards her. The male Tragopan pheasant acts in nearly the same manner, for he raises the feathers of the body, though not the wing itself, on the side

Fig. 51.
Polyplectron chinquis, male (T. W. Wood).