E-text prepared by Steven Gibbs, Turgut Dincer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg has Volume I of this book. See http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34967 Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 36520-h.htm or 36520-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36520/36520-h/36520-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36520/36520-h.zip) THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX. by CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., &c. IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II. With Illustrations. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1871. [The right of Translation is reserved.] ERRATA. VOL. I. Page line _For_ _read_ 27 13 kaolo koala. 31 6 prostratica prostatica. 59, _note_[86] 2 speech species. 74, _note_[107] — Browne Brown. 118, _note_[167] — Vol. I. Vol. II. 128, _note_[184] 4 _Before_ vol. xiv. _insert_ ‘Proc. Royal Soc. 208 2 prostratica. prostatica. 322 5 Actineæ Actiniæ. 324 30 land-shells land-snails. 330 16 figs. 4 and 5 figs. 4, 5, and 6. 334 17 Birgos Birgus. 339 8 attractions attentions. 341 3 dragon-flys dragon-flies. 378 17 Typhæus Typhœus. 384 31 tesselatum tessellatum. 397 9 Hypopira Hypopyra. 405 21 Acrœidæ Acræidæ. VOL. II. 32 30 chamelion chameleon. 115 4 mail male. 178 23 Chloehaga Chloephaga. 227, _note_[281] — Ramphaston Ramphastos. 240, _note_[289] — Mr. H. Brown Mr. R. Brown. — _note_[290] 2 elephus elaphas. 242 14 walruses narwhals. 339 27 Durfur Darfur. CONTENTS. PART II. SEXUAL SELECTION—_continued_. CHAPTER XII. SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS OF FISHES, AMPHIBIANS, AND REPTILES.