The Quarterly Review, Volume 263, Issue 522John Murray, 1934 |
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Page 240
... bird , such as song , display , courtship , and nesting , are inspired by or due to the sexual impulse that an inquiry into the nature of some of the types of display in use among birds when courting , and also on those occasions when ...
... bird , such as song , display , courtship , and nesting , are inspired by or due to the sexual impulse that an inquiry into the nature of some of the types of display in use among birds when courting , and also on those occasions when ...
Page 241
... bird is absolutely motionless and passive while the females are present selecting their mates . This is a case where display of beauty predominates over physical action . With such birds as the Great Crested Grebe , for example , action ...
... bird is absolutely motionless and passive while the females are present selecting their mates . This is a case where display of beauty predominates over physical action . With such birds as the Great Crested Grebe , for example , action ...
Page 244
... birds , and suggest very strongly that the females have not always been of the same mind with regard to the beauties of the males , so that manes and legs of varying shades have been evolved throughout the ages to meet the desires of ...
... birds , and suggest very strongly that the females have not always been of the same mind with regard to the beauties of the males , so that manes and legs of varying shades have been evolved throughout the ages to meet the desires of ...
Contents
ART CONTENTS | 185 |
Poetry and Verse and Worse PAGE | 189 |
ELIA By C E Lawrence | 203 |
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