Beneath this thickened part there is on the surface of the ball an oblique nearly pure-white mark, which shades off downwards into a pale-leaden hue, and this into yellowish and brown tints, which insensibly grow to be darker and darker in the direction of the lower part of the ball. It is this shading which supplies so admirably the impact of mild shining on a convex surface. D to the following lower one, and so with the stripes E and F. Lastly, the several ocelli are separated from one another by a pale surface bearing irregular black marks. Fig. 61. Portion close to summit of one of the secondary wing-feathers, bearing excellent ball-and-socket ocelli. 59), manifestly forms, by its contraction and equalisation, the thickened portion of the ring above the white shade on an ideal ball-and-socket ocellus. The variations may have been gradual, or somewhat abrupt as within the case recently given of the humming-birds near Bogota, through which certain people alone have the “central tail-feathers tipped with lovely inexperienced.” In the feminine of the Urosticte I observed extremely minute or rudimental white tips to the two outer of the 4 central black tail-feathers; so that right here now we have a sign of change of some type in the plumage of this species.
This mark is generally damaged into two portions. Above and to the right of this spot (b fig. 59), with its bright shading, there is a long slim, black mark (c), belonging to the same row, and which is arched a bit of downwards in order to face (b). Looking to any one row, for instance, B, in fig. 59, the lowest mark (b) is thicker and significantly longer than the upper spots, and has its left extremity pointed and curved upwards. The brown, orange, and pale leaden narrow zones, which border the lower black mark of the elliptic ornament, could be seen gradually to develop into more and more softened and shaded into one another, with the upper lighter half in direction of the left-hand nook rendered nonetheless lighter, so as to turn out to be virtually white, and at the identical time more contracted. By failing to adopt a harsher penalty, this signaled to the states that they nonetheless possessed the precise to deny ballot access primarily based on race. In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dominated in Schalk and Kopf v Austria, a case involving an Austrian same-intercourse couple who had been denied the correct to marry.
Both religious and civil officials could refuse to perform same-intercourse marriages. Excluding same-intercourse couples from marriage thus conflicts with a central premise of the suitable to marry. The male, besides a splendid gorget, has greenish-black tail-feathers, with the four central ones tipped with white; in the female, as with many of the allied species, the three outer tail-feathers on every aspect are tipped with white, in order that the male has the four central, while the female has the six exterior feathers ornamented with white ideas. What makes the case extra curious is that, though the colouring of the tail differs remarkably in each sexes of many sorts of humming-birds, Mr. Gould does not know a single species, moreover the Urosticte, during which the male has the 4 central feathers tipped with white. If we grant the potential for the central tail-feathers of the male varying in whiteness, there’s nothing unusual in such variations having been sexually selected.
